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Bournemouth railway station market report BH8 8, Bournemouth
The BH8 8 (Bournemouth railway station) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,756 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH8 8 (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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BH8 8 (Bournemouth) came in at £237,000, out of 63 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £253,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,460 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,756 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BH8 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BH8 (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 BH8 8 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.
BH8 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 63 registered 2026 sales in BH8 8 and the middle price, the median, is £237,000. The mean lands at £253,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BH8 8
A square metre of BH8 8 home has cost about £3,460 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BH8 8 trades 17% below the country as a whole.
A typical BH8 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £237,000 | £237,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 142 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 155 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 147 |
| 2022 | £208,200 | £244,138 | 162 |
| 2021 | £217,500 | £275,383 | 237 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 147 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 189 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 193 |
| 2017 | £184,000 | £250,958 | 212 |
| 2016 | £178,800 | £250,143 | 246 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 224 |
| 2014 | £159,800 | £226,704 | 242 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 175 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 143 |
| 2011 | £163,800 | £247,275 | 142 |
| 2010 | £163,000 | £255,626 | 117 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 200 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 249 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 410 |
| 2006 | £167,500 | £290,759 | 411 |
| 2005 | £160,500 | £285,625 | 300 |
| 2004 | £154,200 | £280,057 | 365 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 389 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 399 |
| 2001 | £96,300 | £185,132 | 366 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 349 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 327 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 312 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 298 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 245 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 200 |
In cash terms the typical BH8 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £237,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH8 8 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 1998 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−7.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +7.7% | +5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 63 BH8 8 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 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
How BH8 8 trades
Within BH8, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of BH8 8
BH8 8 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.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £237,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.1%. 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.
What people ask about BH8 8 (Bournemouth railway station)
How much did a house sell for in BH8 8 (Bournemouth railway station)?
Are property prices falling in BH8 8 (Bournemouth railway station)?
Is BH8 8 (Bournemouth railway station) a good place to buy a house?
Are BH8 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BH8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 61 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH8 district, not just BH8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Charminster Road, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
- St Leonard's Road, Bournemouth, Bournemouth
- Charminster Close, 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 BH8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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. 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 | £343,321 | £390,000 (+14%) | £450,000 (+15%) | £545,000 (+21%) | £655,000 (+20%) |
| Semi-detached | £286,500 | £320,000 (+12%) | £350,000 (+9%) | £420,000 (+20%) | £536,500 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £285,000 (+24%) | £322,500 (+13%) | £389,950 (+21%) | £500,000 (+28%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £220,000 (+38%) | £281,375 (+28%) | £395,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+25%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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:
Zoom out to the full BH8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH8 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH8 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH8 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH8 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH8 8 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.
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.