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Westbourne market report BH4, Bournemouth
The standing BH4 (Westbourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,112 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH4 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BH4 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £258,500 in 2026 (median of 74 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £315,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 11,112 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH4 is a postcode district covering Westbourne, Branksome Woods in Bournemouth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BH4 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 BH4 homes really sell for
Across 74 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH4 home went for £258,500. The mean is £315,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BH4
Per square metre, BH4 homes have averaged around £3,940 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BH4 sits 9% below the national market.
BH4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £258,500 | £258,500 | 74 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 197 |
| 2024 | £281,400 | £299,186 | 200 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 223 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 272 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 356 |
| 2020 | £257,000 | £333,463 | 221 |
| 2019 | £247,000 | £323,758 | 260 |
| 2018 | £238,000 | £317,258 | 255 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 239 |
| 2016 | £232,500 | £325,270 | 311 |
| 2015 | £212,200 | £299,839 | 336 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 353 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 303 |
| 2012 | £202,200 | £297,613 | 234 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 261 |
| 2010 | £202,500 | £317,572 | 262 |
| 2009 | £176,500 | £283,725 | 276 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 254 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 498 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 535 |
| 2005 | £183,200 | £326,022 | 419 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 491 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 537 |
| 2002 | £144,000 | £270,935 | 587 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 521 |
| 2000 | £92,500 | £181,531 | 482 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 532 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 444 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 504 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 377 |
| 1995 | £56,200 | £122,170 | 298 |
In cash terms the typical BH4 home went from £56,200 in 1995 to £258,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 112%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH4 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 (+25.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). 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% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 83% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £855,000 against £245,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BH4
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 | £855,000 | 5 | 1,149 |
| Semi-detached | £657,500 (2023) | – | 204 |
| Terraced | £535,000 (2024) | – | 498 |
| Flats | £245,000 | 66 | 9,231 |
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 167 sales completed in BH4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 509 sales a year before the financial crisis and 193 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.
The rental side of BH4
For renting purposes BH4 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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 £258,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. 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.
Reading the BH4 market
Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, BH4 ranks 23 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on BH4 (Westbourne)
Are property prices falling in BH4 (Westbourne)?
Is BH4 (Westbourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH4 (Westbourne)?
What happens to BH4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
BH4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BH4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 82 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the BH4 median sold price.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
What another bedroom costs in BH
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH4 ranks 19 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 BH4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BH4 8 | £270,000 | 45 |
| BH4 9 | £215,000 | 29 |
How BH4 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 | £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 (this report) | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 | £225,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in BH4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH4, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual BH4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.