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St Leonards market report BH24, Ringwood
The BH24 (St Leonards) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 14,266 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH24 (Ringwood) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BH24 (Ringwood) came in at £450,000, out of 114 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £487,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,540 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 14,266 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district BH24 covering Ringwood, St Leonards, Ashley Heath sits in Ringwood. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BH24 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.
What buyers actually paid in BH24
In the BH24 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £450,000, from 114 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £487,300, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BH24
By floor space, homes in BH24 have sold for about £4,540 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH24 58% above the national figure.
BH24's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 114 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 337 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 293 |
| 2023 | £488,200 | £536,413 | 290 |
| 2022 | £482,500 | £565,786 | 360 |
| 2021 | £485,000 | £614,073 | 544 |
| 2020 | £440,000 | £570,909 | 376 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 429 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 434 |
| 2017 | £403,800 | £550,743 | 430 |
| 2016 | £372,500 | £521,131 | 453 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 458 |
| 2014 | £355,000 | £503,630 | 495 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 394 |
| 2012 | £300,000 | £441,563 | 361 |
| 2011 | £311,200 | £469,792 | 378 |
| 2010 | £295,000 | £462,636 | 368 |
| 2009 | £285,000 | £458,140 | 354 |
| 2008 | £298,500 | £489,305 | 294 |
| 2007 | £310,000 | £525,846 | 567 |
| 2006 | £278,000 | £482,572 | 601 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 437 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 587 |
| 2003 | £231,000 | £425,558 | 484 |
| 2002 | £205,000 | £385,706 | 623 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 577 |
| 2000 | £141,000 | £276,713 | 555 |
| 1999 | £124,200 | £247,524 | 611 |
| 1998 | £116,500 | £235,164 | 529 |
| 1997 | £96,000 | £196,877 | 567 |
| 1996 | £88,100 | £185,799 | 522 |
| 1995 | £82,200 | £178,690 | 444 |
In cash terms the typical BH24 home went from £82,200 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 152%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH24 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 (+21.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−10.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 60% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £625,000 against £170,000 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BH24
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £625,000 | 63 | 8,503 |
| Semi-detached | £395,000 | 28 | 2,446 |
| Terraced | £302,500 | 8 | 1,594 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 15 | 1,723 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BH24
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 246 BH24 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 554 sales a year before the financial crisis and 279 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.
Rents around BH24
For renting purposes BH24 sits in New Forest. The ONS average private rent there is £1,240 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £861 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,984, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, New Forest
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,240 a month is £14,880 a year, which against the £450,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
How BH24 trades
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. BH24 sits 3 of 26 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Searches that land here, answered
To the person who searched property valuations ringwood
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £450,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: BH24 (St Leonards)
Are property prices falling in BH24 (St Leonards)?
Is BH24 (St Leonards) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH24 (St Leonards)?
Are BH24 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in BH24 right now
Everything above is what homes in BH24 sold for. The live side of the market holds 107 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the BH24 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BH24 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.
What another bedroom costs in BH
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH24 ranks 24 of 26 in the BH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BH24, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH24 1 | £395,000 | 63 |
| BH24 2 | £647,500 | 31 |
| BH24 3 | £395,000 | 14 |
| BH24 4 | £687,000 | 6 |
How BH24 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BH18 | £545,000 | +21% |
| BH13 | £518,800 | -3% |
| BH24 (this report) | £450,000 | -7% |
| BH7 | £445,000 | +16% |
| BH19 | £433,800 | +23% |
| BH23 | £420,000 | +11% |
| BH21 | £412,500 | +3% |
| BH31 | £410,000 | +4% |
| BH6 | £406,000 | +4% |
| BH14 | £400,000 | +0% |
| BH25 | £400,000 | -5% |
| BH22 | £385,000 | -4% |
| BH20 | £375,000 | +8% |
| BH9 | £353,600 | +9% |
| BH10 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BH3 | £327,500 | -30% |
| BH15 | £320,000 | +7% |
| BH16 | £320,000 | +3% |
| BH17 | £320,000 | +11% |
| BH11 | £315,000 | +10% |
| BH12 | £308,000 | +4% |
| BH8 | £297,500 | +8% |
| BH4 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 | £225,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in BH24? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH24, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH24's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH24 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual BH24 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.