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Boscombe market report BH5 1, Bournemouth
The BH5 1 (Boscombe) 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: 6,975 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH5 1 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BH5 1 (Bournemouth) sold for £181,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £232,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,620 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,975 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BH5 1 is a single group of streets within BH5 (Bournemouth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BH5 1 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 BH5 1 homes really sell for
In the BH5 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £181,000, from 37 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £232,200, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BH5 1
By floor space, homes in BH5 1 have sold for about £3,620 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH5 1 runs 36% below it.
The price of a typical BH5 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £181,000 | £181,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £203,500 | £208,366 | 112 |
| 2024 | £193,500 | £205,730 | 129 |
| 2023 | £208,500 | £229,091 | 114 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 202 |
| 2021 | £207,500 | £262,722 | 199 |
| 2020 | £207,000 | £268,587 | 118 |
| 2019 | £182,500 | £239,214 | 166 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 202 |
| 2017 | £174,000 | £237,319 | 199 |
| 2016 | £172,800 | £241,749 | 222 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 255 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 233 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 135 |
| 2012 | £166,500 | £245,067 | 148 |
| 2011 | £171,000 | £258,144 | 149 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 162 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 175 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 205 |
| 2007 | £172,800 | £293,117 | 343 |
| 2006 | £158,500 | £275,136 | 367 |
| 2005 | £167,700 | £298,438 | 328 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 389 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 336 |
| 2002 | £111,400 | £209,598 | 416 |
| 2001 | £74,500 | £143,222 | 298 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 273 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 259 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 225 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 236 |
| 1996 | £43,400 | £91,529 | 186 |
| 1995 | £39,200 | £85,215 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical BH5 1 home went from £39,200 in 1995 to £181,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2009; the current median sits about 46% below that. Someone who bought at the 2009 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH5 1 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 (+49.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−18.6%). 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) | −11.1% | −13.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.7% | −7.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.7% | −2.1% |
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 BH5 1
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 37 BH5 1 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 344 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around BH5 1
The local authority for BH5 1 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £922 a month here against £2,092 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £181,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 9.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How BH5 1 trades
This is a thin market: 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the BH5 district median, BH5 1 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about BH5 1 (Boscombe)
How much did a house sell for in BH5 1 (Boscombe)?
Are property prices falling in BH5 1 (Boscombe)?
Is BH5 1 (Boscombe) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BH5 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% 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 BH5 right now
The live side of the market holds 120 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH5 district, not just BH5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
44% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Windsor Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH5
- Wyncombe Road, Bournemouth
- Morley Road, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
"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 BH5 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, 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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH5 2 | £432,100 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full BH5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH5 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH5 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH5 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH5 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH5 1.
Dig further
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See every individual BH5 1 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.