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Southbourne market report BH6, Bournemouth
The BH6 (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: 17,080 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH6 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BH6 (Bournemouth) is £406,000, from 142 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £447,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,750 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,080 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH6 is a postcode district covering Southbourne, Tuckton, Wick 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 BH6 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 prices, from the sold record
Take the 142 registered 2026 sales in BH6 and the middle price, the median, is £406,000. The mean lands at £447,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BH6 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BH6 homes have averaged around £4,750 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BH6 trades 42% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BH6 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £406,000 | £406,000 | 142 |
| 2025 | £398,000 | £407,517 | 395 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 339 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 317 |
| 2022 | £412,000 | £483,117 | 463 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 556 |
| 2020 | £381,000 | £494,355 | 359 |
| 2019 | £306,200 | £401,355 | 456 |
| 2018 | £333,200 | £444,162 | 444 |
| 2017 | £277,000 | £377,800 | 479 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 514 |
| 2015 | £279,500 | £394,934 | 608 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 606 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 476 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 401 |
| 2011 | £241,000 | £363,817 | 418 |
| 2010 | £226,000 | £354,426 | 436 |
| 2009 | £190,500 | £306,230 | 426 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 409 |
| 2007 | £220,500 | £374,029 | 764 |
| 2006 | £213,000 | £369,741 | 783 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 626 |
| 2004 | £198,000 | £359,607 | 684 |
| 2003 | £175,900 | £324,050 | 678 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 830 |
| 2001 | £124,000 | £238,384 | 804 |
| 2000 | £117,500 | £230,594 | 640 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 754 |
| 1998 | £80,500 | £162,495 | 663 |
| 1997 | £71,500 | £146,632 | 606 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 594 |
| 1995 | £63,800 | £138,691 | 410 |
In cash terms the typical BH6 home went from £63,800 in 1995 to £406,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 193%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH6 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 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £600,000 against £265,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, BH6
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 | £600,000 | 58 | 6,957 |
| Semi-detached | £459,000 | 20 | 1,905 |
| Terraced | £402,000 | 7 | 542 |
| Flats | £265,000 | 57 | 7,676 |
What BH6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH6
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 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.
BH6 recorded 308 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 726 sales a year before the financial crisis and 331 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.
What tenants pay around BH6
For renting purposes BH6 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.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £406,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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: BH6 (Southbourne)
How much did a house sell for in BH6 (Southbourne)?
Are property prices falling in BH6 (Southbourne)?
Is BH6 (Southbourne) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BH6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BH6 today
Everything above is what homes in BH6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 104 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the BH6 median sold price.
43% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BH: the cost
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
BH6 ranks 15 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.
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.
Inside BH6, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH6 3 | £330,400 | 56 |
| BH6 4 | £639,100 | 28 |
| BH6 5 | £410,000 | 58 |
How BH6 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 (this report) | £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 | £225,000 | -7% |
Before you sell in BH6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BH6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BH6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BH6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.