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Bournemouth railway station market report BH8 9, Bournemouth
The standing BH8 9 (Bournemouth railway station) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,811 HM Land Registry entries for BH8 9 (Bournemouth), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 50 registered 2026 sales put the BH8 9 (Bournemouth) median at £306,000, down 26% on five years earlier, with a mean of £372,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,811 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BH8 9 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 9 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 9 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for BH8 9 is £306,000, taken from 50 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £372,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in BH8 9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BH8 9 sales average about £4,040 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH8 9 7% above the national figure.
BH8 9's median sold price, 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 | £306,000 | £306,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £418,000 | £427,996 | 99 |
| 2024 | £426,000 | £452,926 | 128 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 103 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 152 |
| 2021 | £411,500 | £521,012 | 192 |
| 2020 | £326,200 | £423,251 | 138 |
| 2019 | £302,000 | £395,850 | 146 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 166 |
| 2017 | £278,000 | £379,164 | 167 |
| 2016 | £252,500 | £353,250 | 172 |
| 2015 | £277,800 | £392,531 | 176 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 207 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 166 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 109 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 108 |
| 2010 | £239,000 | £374,814 | 110 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 135 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 101 |
| 2007 | £208,000 | £352,826 | 332 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 267 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 228 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 256 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 274 |
| 2002 | £166,000 | £312,328 | 268 |
| 2001 | £136,200 | £261,838 | 253 |
| 2000 | £113,500 | £222,744 | 214 |
| 1999 | £87,600 | £174,582 | 268 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 225 |
| 1997 | £78,200 | £160,372 | 240 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 219 |
| 1995 | £70,500 | £153,256 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical BH8 9 home went from £70,500 in 1995 to £306,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 100%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 41% 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 BH8 9 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 2024 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.8%). 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 years (since 2025) | −26.8% | −28.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.8% | −10.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.2% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 50 sales completed in BH8 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 262 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 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 9 market
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH8 9 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 BH8 9
For renting purposes BH8 9 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.
Set against the £306,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
BH8 9 (Bournemouth railway station): the questions that come up
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Where do BH8 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 26% over five years in cash but down 41% 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.
BH8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 140 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH8 district, not just BH8 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BH8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH8 0 | £325,000 | 31 |
| BH8 8 | £275,000 | 51 |
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 9: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH8 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH8 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH8 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BH8 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BH8 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BH8 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH8 9 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.