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Highcliffe market report BH23 5, Christchurch
The BH23 5 (Highcliffe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,841 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH23 5 (Christchurch) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BH23 5 (Christchurch) sold for £397,500 in 2026, the median of 84 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £432,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,841 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BH23 5 is one sector of BH23 (Christchurch): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BH23 5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in BH23 5
Take the 84 registered 2026 sales in BH23 5 and the middle price, the median, is £397,500. The mean lands at £432,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BH23 5
Per square metre, BH23 5 homes have averaged around £4,490 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BH23 5 trades 39% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BH23 5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £397,500 | £397,500 | 84 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 184 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 193 |
| 2023 | £405,000 | £444,996 | 170 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 204 |
| 2021 | £332,500 | £420,988 | 297 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 204 |
| 2019 | £334,500 | £438,449 | 210 |
| 2018 | £381,000 | £507,880 | 220 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 233 |
| 2016 | £322,200 | £450,761 | 228 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 251 |
| 2014 | £299,000 | £424,184 | 216 |
| 2013 | £269,500 | £387,784 | 211 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 157 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 157 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 145 |
| 2009 | £227,500 | £365,708 | 214 |
| 2008 | £272,000 | £445,865 | 169 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 335 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 300 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 183 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 246 |
| 2003 | £233,500 | £430,164 | 194 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 224 |
| 2001 | £173,500 | £333,545 | 248 |
| 2000 | £144,900 | £284,366 | 196 |
| 1999 | £116,500 | £232,178 | 273 |
| 1998 | £116,400 | £234,962 | 214 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 229 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 247 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 205 |
In cash terms the typical BH23 5 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £397,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH23 5 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1998 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.2% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
BH23 5 recorded 84 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the BH23 5 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around BH23 5
The local authority for BH23 5 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £922 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,092, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £397,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: BH23 5 (Highcliffe)
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Are BH23 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in BH23 now
The live side of the market holds 100 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH23 district, not just BH23 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Stour Road, Christchurch, BH23
- Canberra Road, Christchurch, Dorset
- Stour Road, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BH23 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in BH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £375,000 | £500,000 (+33%) | £744,000 (+49%) | £1,083,250 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £293,000 | £329,975 (+13%) | £375,000 (+14%) | £480,000 (+28%) | £700,000 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £265,000 | £305,000 (+15%) | £350,000 (+15%) | £460,000 (+31%) | £600,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £175,000 | £245,000 (+40%) | £372,500 (+52%) | £625,000 (+68%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BH23
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BH23, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH23 1 | £347,500 | 32 |
| BH23 2 | £425,000 | 96 |
| BH23 3 | £340,000 | 52 |
| BH23 4 | £480,000 | 81 |
| BH23 6 | £465,000 | 1 |
| BH23 7 | £360,000 | 25 |
| BH23 8 | £550,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full BH23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH23 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH23 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH23 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH23 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH23 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH23 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.