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Bournemouth railway station market report BH8 0, Bournemouth
The BH8 0 (Bournemouth railway station) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,767 registered sales in BH8 0 (Bournemouth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: a typical BH8 0 (Bournemouth) home changed hands for £325,000 in 2026 (median of 31 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £352,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,350 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,767 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BH8 0 is a single group of streets within BH8 (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 BH8 0 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 BH8 0 prices, from the sold record
In the BH8 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £325,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £352,900, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BH8 0 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BH8 0 homes have averaged around £4,350 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH8 0 14% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BH8 0 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 77 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 86 |
| 2023 | £321,000 | £352,701 | 70 |
| 2022 | £326,800 | £383,210 | 72 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 97 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 83 |
| 2019 | £266,200 | £348,924 | 70 |
| 2018 | £268,200 | £357,516 | 88 |
| 2017 | £255,500 | £348,476 | 80 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 101 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 120 |
| 2014 | £226,000 | £320,620 | 101 |
| 2013 | £191,000 | £274,830 | 101 |
| 2012 | £187,500 | £275,977 | 89 |
| 2011 | £173,000 | £261,163 | 77 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 87 |
| 2009 | £173,500 | £278,903 | 95 |
| 2008 | £189,000 | £309,811 | 79 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 149 |
| 2006 | £172,500 | £299,438 | 173 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 131 |
| 2004 | £161,000 | £292,407 | 153 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 227 |
| 2002 | £123,000 | £231,423 | 181 |
| 2001 | £95,500 | £183,594 | 180 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 135 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 199 |
| 1998 | £67,200 | £135,648 | 168 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 185 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 172 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical BH8 0 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 199%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH8 0 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 (+30.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.2%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in BH8 0
The year-by-year sales count
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.
BH8 0 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 166 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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 BH8 0 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH8 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BH8, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around BH8 0
The local authority for BH8 0 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £325,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 5.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about BH8 0 (Bournemouth railway station)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in BH8 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 140 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH8 district, not just BH8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 BH8 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. 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%) | — |
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 BH8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH8 8 | £275,000 | 51 |
| BH8 9 | £306,000 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full BH8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BH8 0? 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 BH8 0'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH8 0.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH8 0. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH8 0 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.