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Southbourne market report BH6 4, Bournemouth
The BH6 4 (Southbourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,273 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH6 4 (Bournemouth) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 28 registered 2026 sales put the BH6 4 (Bournemouth) median at £639,100, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £609,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,273 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BH6 4 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 4 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 BH6 4
Across 28 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH6 4 home went for £639,100. The mean is £609,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in BH6 4
Per square metre, BH6 4 homes have averaged around £5,790 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH6 4 runs 124% above it.
The price of a typical BH6 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £639,100 | £639,100 | 28 |
| 2025 | £560,000 | £573,391 | 74 |
| 2024 | £642,500 | £683,109 | 70 |
| 2023 | £635,000 | £697,710 | 65 |
| 2022 | £625,000 | £732,884 | 93 |
| 2021 | £542,000 | £686,242 | 111 |
| 2020 | £491,200 | £637,342 | 92 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 77 |
| 2018 | £505,000 | £673,175 | 92 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 82 |
| 2016 | £397,000 | £555,407 | 92 |
| 2015 | £362,000 | £511,506 | 139 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 126 |
| 2013 | £340,000 | £489,226 | 102 |
| 2012 | £308,000 | £453,338 | 85 |
| 2011 | £285,200 | £430,542 | 91 |
| 2010 | £340,000 | £533,208 | 97 |
| 2009 | £275,000 | £442,065 | 107 |
| 2008 | £296,200 | £485,534 | 86 |
| 2007 | £306,000 | £519,061 | 140 |
| 2006 | £272,000 | £472,157 | 119 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 113 |
| 2004 | £264,000 | £479,476 | 132 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 135 |
| 2002 | £200,000 | £376,298 | 158 |
| 2001 | £177,000 | £340,273 | 125 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 119 |
| 1999 | £134,000 | £267,055 | 125 |
| 1998 | £118,000 | £238,191 | 109 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 102 |
| 1996 | £93,000 | £196,133 | 123 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical BH6 4 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £639,100 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 246%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH6 4 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 2003 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BH6 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.1% | +11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
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 4
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 register shows 28 BH6 4 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 130 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 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 4
For renting purposes BH6 4 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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 £639,100 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 2.6%: 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.
What kind of market BH6 4 is
This is a thin market: 28 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within BH6, this sector trades 57% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on BH6 4 (Southbourne)
Are property prices falling in BH6 4 (Southbourne)?
Is BH6 4 (Southbourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH6 4 (Southbourne)?
Where do BH6 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.
BH6's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH6 district, not just BH6 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 43% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Corhampton Road, Bournemouth
- St. Catherines Road, Bournemouth
- Northey 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 BH6 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
BH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BH6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH6 3 | £330,400 | 56 |
| BH6 5 | £410,000 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full BH6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH6 4? 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 BH6 4'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.
Estate agents working BH6 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BH6 4.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BH6 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH6 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.