Bournemouth house prices

Bournemouth house prices are built from 132,465 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +39.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.3%.

HM Land Registry132,465 sales31,573 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bournemouth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Bournemouth is £317,500 in 2026; the lowest is £53,125 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,125 to £317,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,963, so the real change over the whole record is +169.2% — about +3.25% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +39.3% in cash against -0.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Bournemouth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bournemouth is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 26,277 certificates cover Bournemouth, and their median floor area is 69 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -9.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

64,453 of the sales on record are leasehold and 68,012 freehold — 48.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £137,000 and the median freehold sale £215,000 — a gap of +56.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +0.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 7,017 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 46.2% of 218,144 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at £1,402 a month as of Jun 2026 — £921 for a one-bedroom home and £1,460 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £167,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.02% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BH9, 329 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 14 burglary, 17 vehicle-related and 85 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.

Against the 400,196 residents the 2021 census counted in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, that is 0.82 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 400,196 residents in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole across 173,842 households. 63.5% of those households own their home and 36.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

5 state and independent schools have a BH9 postcode: 5 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bournemouth sits above that national figure — +6.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,359 per square metre, across 31,573 of the 132,465 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £500 to £3,600,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Bournemouth sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 9.1 times median local earnings of £37,241 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Bournemouth

• Christchurch Road3,000 sales
• Wimborne Road2,224 sales
• Manor Road1,649 sales
• Surrey Road1,512 sales
• West Cliff Road1,243 sales
• Branksome Wood Road1,083 sales
• Richmond Park Road1,070 sales
• Sea Road1,053 sales
• Knyveton Road1,016 sales
• Belle Vue Road979 sales
• Poole Road917 sales
• Wellington Road873 sales
• Holdenhurst Road814 sales
• Alumhurst Road813 sales
• Charminster Road797 sales
• Owls Road778 sales
• Castle Lane West699 sales
• Southbourne Road696 sales
• Cavendish Road669 sales
• Portarlington Road627 sales
• Lansdowne Road623 sales
• Bath Road615 sales
• Marlborough Road595 sales
• Parkwood Road589 sales
• Boscombe Spa Road560 sales
• Seafield Road556 sales
• Durley Gardens521 sales
• Dean Park Road514 sales
• Stewart Road488 sales
• Grove Road482 sales
• Norwich Avenue West479 sales
• Columbia Road469 sales
• Viscount Walk461 sales
• St Peters Road453 sales
• St Catherines Road452 sales
• Kinson Road451 sales
• Westby Road449 sales
• St Winifreds Road442 sales
• Capstone Road438 sales
• Windham Road431 sales
• Florence Road427 sales
• Portchester Road427 sales
• Malmesbury Park Road422 sales
• King John Avenue416 sales
• Pine Road411 sales
• Madeira Road405 sales
• Redhill Drive399 sales
• Castlemain Avenue385 sales
• Shelbourne Road370 sales
• Cranleigh Road366 sales
• Alum Chine Road360 sales
• Tuckton Road359 sales
• Malvern Road355 sales
• Talbot Avenue344 sales
• Portland Road342 sales
• Alma Road337 sales
• Nortoft Road337 sales
• Green Road327 sales
• Harewood Avenue326 sales
• Lowther Road325 sales

Postcode districts covering Bournemouth

• BH9£176,000 median
• BH1£137,000 median
• BH8£162,500 median
• BH6£191,000 median
• BH4£175,000 median
• BH10£195,000 median
• BH5£150,000 median
• BH11£175,000 median
• BH2£143,000 median
• BH7£186,000 median
• BH3£217,500 median

What is the average house price in Bournemouth?

The median price paid in Bournemouth across every sale on the register is £167,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Bournemouth?

132,465 sales are on record for Bournemouth, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bournemouth house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +39.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bournemouth house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £317,500, set in 2026. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Bournemouth?

£2,359 per square metre, from the 31,573 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Bournemouth house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.