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Southbourne market report BH6 3, Bournemouth
The BH6 3 (Southbourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,948 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH6 3 (Bournemouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical BH6 3 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £322,500 in 2026 (median of 62 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £399,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,640 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,948 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH6 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BH6 (Bournemouth). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BH6 3 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.
Today's BH6 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for BH6 3 is £322,500, taken from 62 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £399,400, 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 BH6 3
By floor space, homes in BH6 3 have sold for about £4,640 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, BH6 3 runs 13% above it.
The price of a typical BH6 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £322,500 | £322,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £347,500 | £355,810 | 166 |
| 2024 | £322,500 | £342,884 | 122 |
| 2023 | £312,000 | £342,812 | 127 |
| 2022 | £331,000 | £388,135 | 198 |
| 2021 | £322,200 | £407,947 | 230 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 129 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 197 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 185 |
| 2017 | £243,500 | £332,110 | 212 |
| 2016 | £231,000 | £323,171 | 230 |
| 2015 | £238,400 | £336,859 | 241 |
| 2014 | £208,000 | £295,084 | 279 |
| 2013 | £188,000 | £270,513 | 203 |
| 2012 | £208,500 | £306,886 | 152 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 173 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 169 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 163 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 158 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 292 |
| 2006 | £188,000 | £326,344 | 353 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 222 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 277 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 269 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 293 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 330 |
| 2000 | £108,000 | £211,950 | 263 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 327 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 282 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 250 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 223 |
| 1995 | £64,500 | £140,213 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical BH6 3 home went from £64,500 in 1995 to £322,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH6 3 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 2000 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−9.8%). 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 year (since 2025) | −7.2% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.1% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in BH6 3
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 62 BH6 3 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 287 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
The rental side of BH6 3
For renting purposes BH6 3 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 £322,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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 BH6 3 trades
Within BH6, this sector trades 21% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BH6 3 (Southbourne)
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Will BH6 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 BH6 now
The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH6 district, not just BH6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Southbourne Grove, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
- Fishermans Avenue, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
- Stourcliffe Avenue, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
"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 BH6 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in BH
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 | £343,321 | £390,000 (+14%) | £450,000 (+15%) | £545,000 (+21%) | £655,000 (+20%) |
| Semi-detached | £286,500 | £320,000 (+12%) | £350,000 (+9%) | £420,000 (+20%) | £536,500 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £285,000 (+24%) | £322,500 (+13%) | £389,950 (+21%) | £500,000 (+28%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £220,000 (+38%) | £281,375 (+28%) | £395,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+25%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 BH6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH6, each linking to its own report:
Zoom out to the full BH6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BH6 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH6 3'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.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BH6 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH6 3 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.
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.