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Littledown market report BH7, Bournemouth
The standing BH7 (Littledown) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,116 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH7 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BH7 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £445,000 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £455,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,116 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BH7 covering Littledown, Iford sits in Bournemouth. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BH7 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 BH7
52 sales were registered in BH7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £445,000. The mean works out at £455,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
BH7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH7 costs about £4,170 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH7 runs 56% above it.
The price of a typical BH7 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 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £422,000 | £432,091 | 165 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 149 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 127 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 147 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 243 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 170 |
| 2019 | £292,500 | £383,397 | 178 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 191 |
| 2017 | £297,500 | £405,760 | 186 |
| 2016 | £264,500 | £370,038 | 196 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 177 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 203 |
| 2013 | £263,000 | £378,431 | 187 |
| 2012 | £247,000 | £363,553 | 171 |
| 2011 | £218,800 | £330,304 | 184 |
| 2010 | £237,500 | £372,461 | 161 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 191 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 135 |
| 2007 | £229,500 | £389,296 | 312 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 367 |
| 2005 | £209,000 | £371,936 | 208 |
| 2004 | £194,500 | £353,250 | 292 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 317 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 343 |
| 2001 | £117,200 | £225,311 | 342 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 283 |
| 1999 | £93,500 | £186,341 | 355 |
| 1998 | £80,500 | £162,495 | 272 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 299 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 291 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 222 |
In cash terms the typical BH7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 241%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 9% 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 BH7 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 2020 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−8.8%). 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) | +5.5% | +3.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £526,500 against £217,500 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BH7
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 | £526,500 | 34 | 3,544 |
| Semi-detached | £325,200 | 10 | 1,374 |
| Terraced | £300,000 (2025) | – | 492 |
| Flats | £217,500 | 8 | 1,706 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 132 sales completed in BH7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 308 sales a year before the financial crisis and 128 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.
Rents around BH7
For renting purposes BH7 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 £445,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
What kind of market BH7 is
Only 132 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH7 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, BH7 ranks 4 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
BH7 (Littledown): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BH7 (Littledown)?
Is BH7 (Littledown) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH7 (Littledown)?
Where do BH7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
BH7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BH7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the BH7 median sold price.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Littledown Avenue, Bournemouth
- Wolverton Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH7
- Christchurch 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 BH7 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.
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BH7 ranks 3 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BH7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BH7 6 | £404,000 | 32 |
| BH7 7 | £517,500 | 20 |
How BH7 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 (this report) | £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 | £225,000 | -7% |
Before you sell in BH7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH7.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every BH7 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.