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Boscombe market report BH5, Bournemouth
The BH5 (Boscombe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,151 HM Land Registry entries for BH5 (Bournemouth), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BH5 (Bournemouth) came in at £225,000, out of 67 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £318,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,151 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BH5 is a postcode district covering Boscombe, Pokesdown 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 BH5 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.
BH5 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 67 registered 2026 sales in BH5 and the middle price, the median, is £225,000. The mean lands at £318,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BH5
Per square metre, BH5 homes have averaged around £3,800 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, BH5 sits 21% below the national market.
The price of a typical BH5 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 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £226,000 | £231,404 | 165 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 194 |
| 2023 | £242,500 | £266,448 | 167 |
| 2022 | £225,000 | £263,838 | 284 |
| 2021 | £241,000 | £305,137 | 295 |
| 2020 | £248,500 | £322,434 | 190 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 235 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 273 |
| 2017 | £179,000 | £244,138 | 296 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 332 |
| 2015 | £165,200 | £233,428 | 344 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 330 |
| 2013 | £159,000 | £228,785 | 199 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 219 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 230 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 235 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 241 |
| 2008 | £202,000 | £331,121 | 262 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 495 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 541 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 469 |
| 2004 | £158,500 | £287,867 | 526 |
| 2003 | £137,500 | £253,308 | 455 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 556 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 441 |
| 2000 | £76,200 | £149,543 | 398 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 428 |
| 1998 | £53,500 | £107,994 | 363 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 363 |
| 1996 | £49,200 | £103,761 | 310 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 248 |
In cash terms the typical BH5 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 144%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH5 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 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 79% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £532,500 against £180,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, BH5
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 | £532,500 | 18 | 1,375 |
| Semi-detached | £440,000 | 5 | 461 |
| Terraced | £375,000 (2025) | – | 254 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 42 | 8,033 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 145 BH5 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 485 sales a year before the financial crisis and 175 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 shape of the BH5 market
Only 145 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, BH5 ranks 24 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around BH5
For renting purposes BH5 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.5%. 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.
Asked and answered: BH5 (Boscombe)
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What happens to BH5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 BH5 now
Everything above is what homes in BH5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 120 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the BH5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Windsor Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH5
- Wyncombe Road, Bournemouth
- Morley Road, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
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 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.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH5 ranks 23 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.
BH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BH5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BH5 1 | £181,000 | 37 |
| BH5 2 | £432,100 | 30 |
How BH5 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 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 (this report) | £225,000 | -7% |
Selling a home in BH5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH5'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 BH5.
Keep digging
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See every individual BH5 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.
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.