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Westbourne market report BH4 8, Bournemouth
The standing BH4 8 (Westbourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,646 registered sales in BH4 8 (Bournemouth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BH4 8 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £270,000 in 2026 (median of 45 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £339,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,646 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH4 8 is one sector of BH4 (Bournemouth): 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 BH4 8 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 BH4 8
In the BH4 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £270,000, from 45 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £339,800, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BH4 8
By floor space, homes in BH4 8 have sold for about £4,140 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH4 8 5% below the country at large.
BH4 8's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £277,000 | £283,624 | 119 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 127 |
| 2023 | £302,800 | £332,703 | 130 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 151 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 209 |
| 2020 | £292,500 | £379,525 | 145 |
| 2019 | £253,400 | £332,147 | 152 |
| 2018 | £242,000 | £322,591 | 158 |
| 2017 | £244,000 | £332,792 | 129 |
| 2016 | £249,500 | £349,053 | 168 |
| 2015 | £222,800 | £314,816 | 192 |
| 2014 | £219,500 | £311,399 | 200 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 181 |
| 2012 | £208,000 | £306,150 | 126 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 159 |
| 2010 | £214,200 | £335,921 | 160 |
| 2009 | £194,000 | £311,857 | 159 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 150 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 315 |
| 2006 | £192,000 | £333,287 | 327 |
| 2005 | £187,500 | £333,674 | 251 |
| 2004 | £193,000 | £350,526 | 305 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 317 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 388 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 299 |
| 2000 | £102,700 | £201,549 | 280 |
| 1999 | £86,800 | £172,988 | 334 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 268 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 294 |
| 1996 | £64,500 | £136,028 | 235 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical BH4 8 home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 112%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH4 8 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 2002 (+20.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH4 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 45 BH4 8 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 310 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How BH4 8 trades
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of BH4 8
The local authority for BH4 8 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £922 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,092 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £270,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 6.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: BH4 8 (Westbourne)
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What happens to BH4 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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 is for sale in BH4 right now
The live side of the market holds 82 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH4 district, not just BH4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"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 BH4 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH4 9 | £215,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full BH4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH4 8? 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 BH4 8'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 BH4 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH4 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BH4 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.