UK Property Check

UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/bournemouth-christchurch-and-poole

Council areaSouth West, England

House prices in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Homes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole sold for a median of £338,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 10,621 standard sales.

That makes it the seventh most expensive of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £310,000.

Median sale price£338,00010,621 standard sales
Middle half of prices£250,000 to £460,000
Change since 2016+36%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Postcode districts in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

The dearest districts were BH13 (Poole) and BH18 (Broadstone), both at £500,000, and the cheapest was BH2 (Bournemouth), at £200,000. The dearest median is 2.5 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were BH3 (Bournemouth) and BH14 (Poole), and the next cheapest BH1 (Bournemouth) and BH5 (Bournemouth).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.

Post towns in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, by number of sales: Bournemouth (11 districts), Poole (BH12, BH13, BH14, BH15, BH17), Christchurch (BH23), Broadstone (BH18).

Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. BH13Poole, 359 sales£500,000−3%
  2. BH18Broadstone, 361 sales£500,000+2%
  3. BH3Bournemouth, 132 sales£487,500Too few
  4. BH14Poole, 752 sales£442,500+21%
  5. BH7Bournemouth, 290 sales£425,000+7%
  6. BH23Christchurch, 1,749 sales£420,000−1%
  7. BH6Bournemouth, 686 sales£400,0000%
  8. BH9Bournemouth, 748 sales£350,000+1%
  9. BH10Bournemouth, 470 sales£345,000+4%
  10. BH15Poole, 977 sales£320,000−1%
  11. BH17Poole, 619 sales£320,0000%
  12. BH12Poole, 867 sales£319,500+4%
  13. BH11Bournemouth, 490 sales£315,000−5%
  14. BH8Bournemouth, 613 sales£300,000−8%
  15. BH4Bournemouth, 351 sales£265,000−6%
  16. BH5Bournemouth, 326 sales£225,0000%
  17. BH1Bournemouth, 514 sales£221,500−6%
  18. BH2Bournemouth, 271 sales£200,000−7%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in BH14 (Poole), up 21%, and fell most in BH8 (Bournemouth), down 8%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • The Avenue, Branksome Park (BH13)57 sales
  • Bournemouth Road, Poole (BH14)52 sales
  • Christchurch Road, Bournemouth (BH1)49 sales
  • Lindsay Road, Branksome Park (BH13)45 sales
  • Manor Road, Bournemouth (BH1)44 sales
  • Belle Vue Road, Southbourne (BH6)43 sales
  • Lymington Road, Highcliffe (BH23)39 sales
  • Wellington Road, Bournemouth (BH8)37 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe (BH23, detached houses, £990,000), Spur Hill Avenue, Parkstone (BH14, £770,000) and River Way, Christchurch (BH23, detached houses, £767,500).

The cheapest were Seldown Road, Poole (BH15, flats, £91,500), Mount Pleasant Road, Poole (BH15, flats, £98,500) and Station Road, Parkstone (BH14, flats, £99,000).

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached4,065£472,000£375,000 to £625,000£4,368/m²from 165 sales
Semi-detached1,682£340,000£305,000 to £390,000£3,747/m²from 56 sales
Terraced1,328£300,000£270,000 to £350,000£3,787/m²from 38 sales
Flats and maisonettes3,546£216,500£170,000 to £275,000£3,157/m²from 104 sales

Detached houses and flats and maisonettes sold in similar numbers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, at 38% and 33% of sales.

Measured by floor area, homes here sold for a median of £3,955 per m², 10% above the £3,587 across the South West as a whole.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 36%, from £250,000 in 2016 to £339,000 in 2025, the same as the 36% rise across the South West as a whole.

Leasehold homes

34% of sales in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole were leasehold, against 17% across the South West as a whole. Most of them are flats, so ask for the years left on the lease and the service charge, and read how long a lease should be and what to check about cladding.

Living in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Crime

66 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Lower than 62 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

90% of homes can get it

Near the middle of all council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

3% of postcodes are in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Lower than 81 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,436 a year in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for 2026 to 2027

Near the middle of all council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in the South West

Median sale price of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and the 14 council areas nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. Cotswold£450,000
  2. Bath and North East Somerset£395,000
  3. South Hams£360,000
  4. Bristol£350,000
  5. Dorset£345,000
  6. South Gloucestershire£340,000
  7. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£338,000
  8. Stroud£335,000
  9. East Devon£330,000
  10. Cheltenham£328,000
  11. Tewkesbury£325,000
  12. North Somerset£320,000
  13. Wiltshire£320,000
  14. Exeter£300,000
  15. Teignbridge£300,000
All 26 council areas in the South West, ranked

About these figures

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole's figures come from 10,621 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode (how we build council pages).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.