Grove Road, Bournemouth house prices are built from 482 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £225,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +10.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.2%.
Median price paid
£225,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+10.2%
Change in real terms
-20.2%
Median per m²
£2,968
HM Land Registry482 sales112 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Grove Road, Bournemouth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Grove Road, Bournemouth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £73,000 | £162,094 |
| 2000s | 10 | £235,000 | £428,101 |
| 2010s | 10 | £245,000 | £345,450 |
| 2020s | 6 | £266,250 | £272,038 |
The highest yearly median on record for Grove Road, Bournemouth is £340,500 in 2024; the lowest is £58,975 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £69,975 to £255,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £155,378, so the real change over the whole record is +67.7% — about +1.74% 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: +10.2% in cash against -20.2% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat B4 Elizabeth Court | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| Flat A5 Elizabeth Court | 16 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £167,000 |
| Apartment 19 Riviera, 63 | 8 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| Flat F5 Elizabeth Court | 3 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| Flat F17 Elizabeth Court | 26 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| Flat B19 Elizabeth Court | 24 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £212,500 | £217,120 |
| Flat 1 Grove Mansions, 32 | 13 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat D7 Elizabeth Court | 9 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| Flat B1 Princes Gate, 55 | 25 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £690,000 | £705,000 |
| Flat 20 Hinton Wood, 17 | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £480,000 | £490,435 |
| Flat 9 the Farthings, 5 – 7 | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| Flat 37 Hinton Wood, 17 | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £390,000 | £398,478 |
| Flat 16 the Farthings, 5 – 7 | 12 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £262,500 | £268,207 |
| Flat F11 Elizabeth Court | 26 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| Flat G2 Elizabeth Court | 21 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| Flat G17 Elizabeth Court | 31 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| Flat A16 Elizabeth Court | 29 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| Flat E3 Princes Gate, 55 | 11 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £395,000 | £415,634 |
| Flat C2 Princes Gate, 55 | 24 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £480,000 | £505,075 |
| Flat 21 Hinton Wood, 17 | 1 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| Flat 8 the Farthings, 5 – 7 | 6 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 79 | 17 May 2024 | Detached | £680,000 | £715,522 |
| Flat C15 Elizabeth Court | 2 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £286,000 | £300,940 |
| Flat E19 Elizabeth Court | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| Flat G1 Princes Gate, 55 | 13 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £540,000 | £583,448 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Grove Road, Bournemouth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT A5 ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road | £105,000 (2000) | £167,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -0.9% |
| APARTMENT 19 RIVIERA, 63 Grove Road | £435,000 (2019) | £385,000 (2025) | -2.0% | -6.0% |
| FLAT D7 ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road | £230,000 (2013) | £230,000 (2025) | 0.0% | -2.9% |
| FLAT B1 PRINCES GATE, 55 Grove Road | £187,500 (1995) | £690,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 9 the FARTHINGS, 5 – 7 Grove Road | £263,250 (2017) | £280,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.8% |
| FLAT 37 HINTON WOOD, 17 Grove Road | £80,000 (1995) | £390,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| FLAT 16 the FARTHINGS, 5 – 7 Grove Road | £245,000 (2014) | £262,500 (2025) | +0.6% | -2.4% |
| FLAT G2 ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road | £60,000 (1996) | £260,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| FLAT G17 ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road | £85,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| FLAT A16 ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road | £62,000 (1997) | £255,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| FLAT E3 PRINCES GATE, 55 Grove Road | £210,000 (2003) | £395,000 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| FLAT 21 HINTON WOOD, 17 Grove Road | £196,000 (2011) | £250,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Grove Road, Bournemouth is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 459 | 95.2% | £222,500 | £20,000 – £860,000 |
| Detached | 14 | 2.9% | £335,000 | £117,000 – £745,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 1.7% | £188,000 | £90,000 – £900,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.2% | £800,000 | £800,000 – £800,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Grove Road, Bournemouth
467 of the sales on record are leasehold and 15 freehold — 96.9% 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 £222,500 and the median freehold sale £335,000 — a gap of +50.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 467 | 96.9% | £222,500 |
| Freehold | 15 | 3.1% | £335,000 |
| New build | 5 | 1.0% | £231,500 |
| Existing home | 477 | 99.0% | £225,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +2.9%. 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 28 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.
Section 07
Living in Grove Road, Bournemouth
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 737 | 0.3% |
| B | 23,083 | 10.6% |
| C | 76,981 | 35.3% |
| D | 80,336 | 36.8% |
| E | 28,893 | 13.2% |
| F | 6,461 | 3.0% |
| G | 1,653 | 0.8% |
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 £225,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.48% 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 BH1, 802 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 258 violent, 24 burglary, 35 vehicle-related and 244 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.8 times busier.
Against the 400,196 residents the 2021 census counted in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, that is 2.00 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Grove Road, Bournemouth
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.
4 state and independent schools have a BH1 postcode: 3 primary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livingstone Academy Bournemouth | All-through | Free schools | 1,006 |
| King's Park Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 572 |
| Bethany Church of England Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 308 |
| St Clement's and St John's Church of England Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 177 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Pokesdown Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Branksome Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Tea Gardens Ferry Landing | Ferry | 5.1 km |
Section 09
How Grove Road, Bournemouth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Grove Road, Bournemouth sits above that national figure — +42.9%.
Within Bournemouth the street ranks 510 of 1504 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £167,950 (+34.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,968 per square metre, across 112 of the 482 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 £20,000 to £900,000. 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.
Grove Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Christchurch Road£124,000 median
- Manor Road£219,950 median
- Knyveton Road£161,000 median
- Cavendish Road£160,000 median
- Lansdowne Road£127,000 median
- Bath Road£150,000 median
- Dean Park Road£147,750 median
- St Peters Road£157,000 median
- Windham Road£147,500 median
- Madeira Road£122,000 median
- Southcote Road£117,500 median
- Spring Road£159,475 median
- Palmerston Road£115,000 median
- Hamilton Road£109,950 median
- Derby Road£143,000 median
- Drummond Road£114,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT E18, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road6 sales
- FLAT C19, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road5 sales
- FLAT D4, PRINCES GATE, 55 Grove Road5 sales
- FLAT A5, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT 37, HINTON WOOD, 17 Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT G2, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, ATHELNEY COURT, 24 Grove Road4 sales
- 14 Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT E12A, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT D10, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT D12A, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT G12A, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT G1, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT C18, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT 40, HINTON WOOD, 17 Grove Road4 sales
- 10, FARTHINGS COURT, 5 – 7 Grove Road4 sales
- FLAT B1, PRINCES GATE, 55 Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT A16, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT E3, PRINCES GATE, 55 Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT C15, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT 8, ATHELNEY COURT, 24 Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, HINTON WOOD, 17 Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, GROSVENOR COURT, 22 Grove Road3 sales
- FLAT A9, ELIZABETH COURT Grove Road3 sales
Back to Bournemouth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Grove Road, Bournemouth?
The median price paid in Grove Road, Bournemouth across every sale on the register is £225,000. 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 Grove Road, Bournemouth?
482 sales are on record for Grove Road, Bournemouth, the most recent completing on 1 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Grove Road, Bournemouth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +10.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Grove Road, Bournemouth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £340,500, set in 2024. 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 Grove Road, Bournemouth?
£2,968 per square metre, from the 112 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 1 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, “Grove Road, 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.