Balcombe Road, Poole house prices are built from 238 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £475,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +51.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.2%.
Median price paid
£475,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+51.6%
Change in real terms
+11.2%
Median per m²
£3,110
HM Land Registry238 sales58 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Balcombe Road, Poole prices moved
The chart tracks the median Balcombe Road, Poole house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2024. 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 | 3 | £249,950 | £555,007 |
| 2000s | 7 | £435,000 | £792,442 |
| 2010s | 9 | £512,475 | £722,590 |
| 2020s | 4 | £645,000 | £659,022 |
The highest yearly median on record for Balcombe Road, Poole is £950,000 in 2019; the lowest is £212,500 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £212,500 to £735,200.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £450,564, so the real change over the whole record is +71.7% — about +2.02% 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: +51.6% in cash against +11.2% 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 5 Coombe Wood, 11 | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £557,500 | £557,500 |
| Flat 1 Foxdene, 5 | 22 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| Flat 3 Balcombe Place, 7 | 16 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| Flat 8 the Orchard, 12 | 3 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £900,000 | £900,000 |
| Flat 2 Balcombe Court, 4 | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| Flat 8 Balcombe Tower, 6 | 26 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £690,000 | £705,000 |
| Flat 1 Balcombe Tower, 6 | 25 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| Flat 2 Albany House, 3 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £720,000 | £757,612 |
| Flat 2 Coombe Wood, 11 | 22 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £595,000 | £626,082 |
| Flat 12 Parkbury, 14 | 9 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £794,000 | £835,478 |
| Apartment 3 Balcombe Breeze, 2a | 29 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £1,075,000 | £1,131,157 |
| Flat 8 Foxdene, 5 | 22 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| Flat 4 Parkbury, 14 | 24 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £750,400 | £789,600 |
| Flat 1 Balcombe Place, 7 | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £540,230 |
| Flat 6 the Grove, 9 | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £1,280,000 | £1,482,991 |
| Flat 7 Albany House, 3 | 28 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £800,000 | £926,869 |
| Flat 9 Regents Court, 10 | 9 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £900,000 | £1,042,728 |
| Flat 2 Carlton Gate, 1 | 8 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £635,000 | £735,703 |
| Flat 2 Balcombe Place, 7 | 28 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £590,000 | £683,566 |
| Flat 3 Balcombe Court, 4 | 25 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| Flat 8 Balcombe Court, 4 | 2 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £525,000 | £608,258 |
| Flat 4 Balcombe Place, 7 | 26 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £821,237 |
| Flat 1 Coombe Wood, 11 | 11 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £550,000 | £694,892 |
| Flat 6 Carlton Gate, 1 | 18 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £635,000 | £802,285 |
| Flat 3 Balcombe Tower, 6 | 28 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £675,000 | £852,823 |
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 Balcombe Road, Poole values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 5 COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road | £155,000 (1997) | £557,500 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 3 BALCOMBE PLACE, 7 Balcombe Road | £410,000 (2011) | £575,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| FLAT 8 the ORCHARD, 12 Balcombe Road | £685,000 (2005) | £900,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 2 BALCOMBE COURT, 4 Balcombe Road | £198,000 (1998) | £500,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 8 BALCOMBE TOWER, 6 Balcombe Road | £470,000 (2008) | £690,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 1 BALCOMBE TOWER, 6 Balcombe Road | £248,000 (1998) | £550,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| FLAT 2 ALBANY HOUSE, 3 Balcombe Road | £222,500 (1998) | £720,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| FLAT 2 COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road | £174,999 (2001) | £595,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 12 PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road | £265,000 (1998) | £794,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| APARTMENT 3 BALCOMBE BREEZE, 2A Balcombe Road | £1,000,000 (2020) | £1,075,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -3.3% |
| FLAT 8 FOXDENE, 5 Balcombe Road | £390,000 (2010) | £560,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 4 PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road | £408,000 (2002) | £750,400 (2024) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Balcombe Road, Poole 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 | 225 | 94.5% | £475,000 | £125,500 – £1,475,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 4.2% | £675,000 | £270,000 – £1,550,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 1.3% | £162,500 | £135,000 – £330,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Balcombe Road, Poole
229 of the sales on record are leasehold and 9 freehold — 96.2% 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 £465,000 and the median freehold sale £900,000 — a gap of +93.5%. 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 | 229 | 96.2% | £465,000 |
| Freehold | 9 | 3.8% | £900,000 |
| New build | 53 | 22.3% | £335,000 |
| Existing home | 185 | 77.7% | £495,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -32.3%. 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 6 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 09
How Balcombe Road, Poole compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Balcombe Road, Poole sits above that national figure — +201.6%.
Within Poole the street ranks 118 of 1269 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £191,500 (+148.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,110 per square metre, across 58 of the 238 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 £125,500 to £1,550,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- The Avenue£249,950 median
- Lindsay Road£185,000 median
- Western Road£250,000 median
- Banks Road£390,000 median
- Canford Cliffs Road£314,950 median
- Tower Road£315,000 median
- Haven Road£344,250 median
- Burton Road£250,000 median
- Panorama Road£620,000 median
- Chaddesley Glen£655,000 median
- Cliff Drive£542,500 median
- Nairn Road£685,000 median
- Westminster Road£697,500 median
- Forest Road£470,000 median
- Wilderton Road£207,000 median
- Pinewood Road£249,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, ALBANY HOUSE, 3 Balcombe Road8 sales
- FLAT 6, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road6 sales
- FLAT 2, COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road5 sales
- FLAT 6, ALBANY HOUSE, 3 Balcombe Road5 sales
- FLAT 14, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road5 sales
- FLAT 8, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road5 sales
- FLAT 5, COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, ALBANY HOUSE, 3 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, BALCOMBE PLACE, 7 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, BALCOMBE TOWER, 6 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 9, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, COOMBE WOOD, 11 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, the ORCHARD, 12 Balcombe Road4 sales
- FLAT 8, the ORCHARD, 12 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 8, BALCOMBE TOWER, 6 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 12, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, PARKBURY, 14 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, the GROVE, 9 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 9, REGENTS COURT, 10 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, BALCOMBE COURT, 4 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 8, BALCOMBE COURT, 4 Balcombe Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, BALCOMBE PLACE, 7 Balcombe Road3 sales
Back to Poole house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Balcombe Road, Poole?
The median price paid in Balcombe Road, Poole across every sale on the register is £475,000. 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 Balcombe Road, Poole?
238 sales are on record for Balcombe Road, Poole, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Balcombe Road, Poole house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +51.6% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Balcombe Road, Poole house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £950,000, set in 2019. 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 Balcombe Road, Poole?
£3,110 per square metre, from the 58 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 5 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, “Balcombe Road, Poole 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.