Christchurch house prices

Christchurch house prices are built from 36,949 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £229,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +28.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.3%.

HM Land Registry36,949 sales6,565 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Christchurch 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 Christchurch is £427,250 in 2022; the lowest is £70,250 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £70,250 to £416,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £155,988, so the real change over the whole record is +166.7% — about +3.21% 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: +28.0% in cash against -8.3% 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 Christchurch values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Christchurch 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. 7,173 certificates cover Christchurch, and their median floor area is 80 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. 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.

8,372 of the sales on record are leasehold and 28,577 freehold — 22.7% 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 £155,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +61.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.7%. 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 1,116 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 £229,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.32% 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 BH23, 99 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 6 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 26 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.

Against the 400,196 residents the 2021 census counted in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, that is 0.25 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.

15 state and independent schools have a BH23 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary. 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. Christchurch sits above that national figure — +46.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,751 per square metre, across 6,565 of the 36,949 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 £2,400 to £5,300,000. 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.

Christchurch 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 Christchurch

• Lymington Road959 sales
• Wortley Road436 sales
• Barrack Road422 sales
• Stour Road363 sales
• Purewell349 sales
• Regency Crescent336 sales
• Ringwood Road331 sales
• Wharncliffe Road306 sales
• Salisbury Road288 sales
• Fairmile Road286 sales
• Montagu Road276 sales
• Mudeford266 sales
• River Way249 sales
• Rodney Drive246 sales
• Stanpit236 sales
• Willow Way235 sales
• Avenue Road229 sales
• Mudeford Lane211 sales
• Bargates210 sales
• Burley Road210 sales
• Stuart Road206 sales
• The Grove192 sales
• Russell Drive191 sales
• Saffron Drive191 sales
• Stony Lane189 sales
• Waterford Place189 sales
• Dragoon Way178 sales
• Priory View Road177 sales
• Pittmore Road175 sales
• Rosehill Drive175 sales
• Hillside Drive174 sales
• Hinton Wood Avenue172 sales
• Portfield Road165 sales
• Smugglers Lane North165 sales
• Halifax Way154 sales
• Hurn Road153 sales
• Pauntley Road153 sales
• Waterford Road152 sales
• Comet Way151 sales
• Braemar Drive149 sales
• Jumpers Road149 sales
• Wentworth Drive147 sales
• Jumpers Avenue146 sales
• Glenville Road145 sales
• Rowan Drive145 sales
• Somerford Road144 sales
• The Meadway144 sales
• Gardner Road143 sales
• Lingwood Avenue143 sales
• Bronte Avenue138 sales
• Forest Way136 sales
• Somerford Way135 sales
• Bure Lane134 sales
• Manning Avenue131 sales
• Rimbury Way127 sales
• The Meridians127 sales
• Canberra Road123 sales
• Ladysmith Close122 sales
• Chestnut Way121 sales
• Endfield Road121 sales

Postcode districts covering Christchurch

• BH23£230,000 median

What is the average house price in Christchurch?

The median price paid in Christchurch across every sale on the register is £229,950. 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 Christchurch?

36,949 sales are on record for Christchurch, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Christchurch house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +28.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Christchurch house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £427,250, set in 2022. 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 Christchurch?

£2,751 per square metre, from the 6,565 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 26 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, “Christchurch 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.