Portchester Road, Bournemouth house prices are built from 427 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £154,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +32.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.4%.
Median price paid
£154,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+32.0%
Change in real terms
-4.4%
Median per m²
£2,000
HM Land Registry427 sales85 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Portchester Road, Bournemouth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Portchester 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 | £45,975 | £102,086 |
| 2000s | 9 | £147,000 | £267,791 |
| 2010s | 9 | £168,000 | £236,880 |
| 2020s | 5 | £216,250 | £220,951 |
The highest yearly median on record for Portchester Road, Bournemouth is £261,000 in 2023; the lowest is £41,500 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £42,500 to £212,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,370, so the real change over the whole record is +130.1% — about +2.82% 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: +32.0% in cash against -4.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| Flat 6 17 | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 1a | 5 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £238,000 | £243,174 |
| 3 Portchester Court, 67 | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| Flat 4 Twin Firs, 50 | 30 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| Flat 1 37 | 30 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £156,000 | £159,391 |
| Flat 6 Devonshire Lodge, 32 | 23 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 4 Exton Court, 44 | 30 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 1 Ridgemount, 56 | 24 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| Flat 4 51 | 11 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| Flat 7 51 | 8 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £213,000 | £224,127 |
| 1 Portchester Court, 67 | 9 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 38 | 5 Sep 2024 | Detached | £970,000 | £1,020,672 |
| Flat 2 61 | 21 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| Flat 7 15 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| Flat 1 Fairlorne Court, 59 | 11 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| Flat 1 15 | 5 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| Flat 1 47 | 21 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| Flat 2 Portchester House, 76 | 24 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| Flat 6 47 | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £258,000 | £278,759 |
| Flat 5 Packwood House | 3 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £261,000 | £282,000 |
| Flat 2 53 | 5 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| Flat 4 47 | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 57 | 5 Oct 2022 | Detached | £995,000 | £1,152,794 |
| Flat 5 51 | 20 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £254,889 |
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 Portchester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 Portchester Road | £206,000 (2002) | £435,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 6 17 Portchester Road | £89,950 (2000) | £175,000 (2025) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 1A Portchester Road | £40,000 (2003) | £238,000 (2025) | +8.4% | +5.5% |
| FLAT 4 TWIN FIRS, 50 Portchester Road | £50,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 1 37 Portchester Road | £110,000 (2008) | £156,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 6 DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 32 Portchester Road | £125,000 (2017) | £255,000 (2025) | +9.3% | +5.5% |
| 1 RIDGEMOUNT, 56 Portchester Road | £192,500 (2013) | £265,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| FLAT 7 51 Portchester Road | £157,500 (2017) | £213,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +0.6% |
| 38 Portchester Road | £46,000 (1997) | £970,000 (2024) | +12.0% | +9.1% |
| FLAT 2 61 Portchester Road | £160,000 (2019) | £185,000 (2024) | +2.9% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 7 15 Portchester Road | £140,000 (2003) | £200,000 (2024) | +1.7% | -1.1% |
| FLAT 1 15 Portchester Road | £145,000 (2003) | £235,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Portchester 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 | 376 | 88.1% | £145,000 | £12,500 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 43 | 10.1% | £246,000 | £50,819 – £995,000 |
| Terraced | 6 | 1.4% | £244,000 | £40,050 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 0.5% | £160,000 | £160,000 – £227,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Portchester Road, Bournemouth
374 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 87.6% 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 £144,975 and the median freehold sale £249,000 — a gap of +71.8%. 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 | 374 | 87.6% | £144,975 |
| Freehold | 53 | 12.4% | £249,000 |
| New build | 28 | 6.6% | £100,975 |
| Existing home | 399 | 93.4% | £158,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -36.1%. 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 21 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 Portchester 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 £154,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.92% 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 BH8, 295 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 79 violent, 15 burglary, 19 vehicle-related and 97 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.
Against the 400,196 residents the 2021 census counted in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, that is 0.74 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 Portchester 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.
8 state and independent schools have a BH8 postcode: 5 primary, 3 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,320 |
| Bournemouth School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,290 |
| The Bishop of Winchester Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,162 |
| Malmesbury Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 693 |
| Muscliff Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 528 |
| Queen's Park Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 479 |
| Jewell Academy Bournemouth | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 324 |
| Queen's Park Infant Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 312 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bournemouth Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Pokesdown Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Tea Gardens Ferry Landing | Ferry | 4.7 km |
| Christchurch Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How Portchester Road, Bournemouth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Portchester Road, Bournemouth sits below that national figure — -2.2%.
Within Bournemouth the street ranks 1107 of 1504 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £167,950 (-8.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,000 per square metre, across 85 of the 427 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 £12,500 to £995,000. 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.
Portchester 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
- Richmond Park Road£147,000 median
- Wellington Road£118,000 median
- Holdenhurst Road£116,250 median
- Charminster Road£135,500 median
- Castle Lane West£174,500 median
- Stewart Road£140,000 median
- Capstone Road£155,000 median
- Malmesbury Park Road£169,725 median
- Shelbourne Road£159,250 median
- Nortoft Road£156,000 median
- Lowther Road£180,000 median
- Milton Road£146,750 median
- Queens Park Avenue£305,000 median
- Queens Park West Drive£101,000 median
- Richmond Wood Road£165,000 median
- Avon Road£115,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 1, 31 Portchester Road6 sales
- FLAT 1, 37 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, TWIN FIRS, 50 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 7, 15 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 6, 47 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 6, TWIN FIRS, 50 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 2, 31 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 5, PORTCHESTER HOUSE, 76 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 2, 25 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 6, PORTCHESTER HOUSE, 76 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 3, 44 Portchester Road5 sales
- FLAT 5, 48 Portchester Road5 sales
- 69 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, 17 Portchester Road4 sales
- 1A Portchester Road4 sales
- 38 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 4, 47 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 25 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, PORTCHESTER HOUSE, 76 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, PORTCHESTER HOUSE, 76 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 17 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, 19 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 59 Portchester Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 22 Portchester Road4 sales
Back to Bournemouth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Portchester Road, Bournemouth?
The median price paid in Portchester Road, Bournemouth across every sale on the register is £154,000. 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 Portchester Road, Bournemouth?
427 sales are on record for Portchester Road, Bournemouth, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Portchester Road, Bournemouth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Portchester Road, Bournemouth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £261,000, set in 2023. 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 Portchester Road, Bournemouth?
£2,000 per square metre, from the 85 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 30 Jan 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, “Portchester 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.