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Bournemouth railway station market report BH8, Bournemouth
The BH8 (Bournemouth railway station) 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: 17,325 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH8 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 132 registered 2026 sales put the BH8 (Bournemouth) median at £297,500, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £326,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,325 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BH8 covering Bournemouth railway station, Malmesbury Park, Richmond Park 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 BH8 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.
What a home in BH8 sells for
The BH8 median stands at £297,500 for 2026, built from 132 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £326,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BH8
The last five years of sales put BH8 at roughly £3,860 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH8 4% above the national figure.
A typical BH8 home, priced year by year (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 | £297,500 | £297,500 | 132 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 318 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 369 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 320 |
| 2022 | £293,500 | £344,162 | 386 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 526 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 368 |
| 2019 | £241,000 | £315,893 | 405 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 447 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 460 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 519 |
| 2015 | £214,000 | £302,382 | 520 |
| 2014 | £197,200 | £279,763 | 550 |
| 2013 | £192,500 | £276,988 | 442 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 341 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 327 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 314 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 430 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 429 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 891 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 851 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 661 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 774 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 890 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 848 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 799 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 698 |
| 1999 | £73,500 | £146,482 | 794 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 705 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 723 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 636 |
| 1995 | £49,500 | £107,605 | 452 |
In cash terms the typical BH8 home went from £49,500 in 1995 to £297,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 17% 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 BH8 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 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−7.7%). 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, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £464,800 against £197,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BH8
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 | £464,800 | 40 | 5,336 |
| Semi-detached | £335,200 | 24 | 2,671 |
| Terraced | £290,000 | 21 | 2,174 |
| Flats | £197,000 | 47 | 7,144 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
BH8 recorded 286 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 802 sales a year before the financial crisis and 305 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.
Reading the BH8 market
Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, BH8 ranks 22 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around BH8
BH8 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £922 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,092, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £297,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
Common questions on BH8 (Bournemouth railway station)
How much did a house sell for in BH8 (Bournemouth railway station)?
Are property prices falling in BH8 (Bournemouth railway station)?
Is BH8 (Bournemouth railway station) a good place to buy a house?
Are BH8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 BH8 today
Everything above is what homes in BH8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 140 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the BH8 median sold price.
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" 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH8 ranks 9 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BH8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BH8 0 | £325,000 | 31 |
| BH8 8 | £275,000 | 51 |
| BH8 9 | £306,000 | 50 |
How BH8 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 | £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 (this report) | £297,500 | +8% |
| BH4 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 | £225,000 | -7% |
Selling in BH8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH8, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual BH8 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.