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Southbourne market report BH6 5, Bournemouth
The BH6 5 (Southbourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,867 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH6 5 (Bournemouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BH6 5 (Bournemouth) is £410,000, from 58 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £404,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,430 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,867 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like BH6 5 is a single group of streets within BH6 (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 BH6 5 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 BH6 5 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for BH6 5 is £410,000, taken from 58 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £404,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BH6 5
Per square metre, BH6 5 homes have averaged around £4,430 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, BH6 5 sits 44% above the national market.
A typical BH6 5 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 157 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 147 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 125 |
| 2022 | £448,800 | £526,269 | 172 |
| 2021 | £352,500 | £446,310 | 215 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 138 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 182 |
| 2018 | £327,500 | £436,564 | 167 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 185 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 192 |
| 2015 | £276,000 | £389,988 | 228 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 201 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 171 |
| 2012 | £233,900 | £344,272 | 164 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 154 |
| 2010 | £225,500 | £353,642 | 170 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 156 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 165 |
| 2007 | £203,500 | £345,193 | 332 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 311 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 291 |
| 2004 | £184,000 | £334,180 | 275 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 274 |
| 2002 | £137,500 | £258,705 | 379 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 349 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 258 |
| 1999 | £83,500 | £166,411 | 302 |
| 1998 | £76,200 | £153,815 | 272 |
| 1997 | £67,400 | £138,224 | 254 |
| 1996 | £58,800 | £124,007 | 248 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 175 |
In cash terms the typical BH6 5 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 237%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH6 5 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 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). 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) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 58 BH6 5 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 309 sales a year before the financial crisis and 132 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the BH6 5 market
Only 58 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH6 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of BH6 5
BH6 5 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £410,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Common questions on BH6 5 (Southbourne)
How much did a house sell for in BH6 5 (Southbourne)?
Are property prices falling in BH6 5 (Southbourne)?
Is BH6 5 (Southbourne) a good place to buy a house?
Are BH6 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 is for sale in BH6 right now
The live side of the market holds 104 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH6 district, not just BH6 5: 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" 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 →
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.
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BH6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH6 3 | £330,400 | 56 |
| BH6 4 | £639,100 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full BH6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH6 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH6 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH6 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH6 5 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 BH6 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH6 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH6 5 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.
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.