PendingP/26/03225/FUL
32
units
The demolition and redevelopment for 32 apartments within Use Class C3, parking, access, landscaping and other associated works.
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Dorset · Q2 2026
Bournemouth volumes hold above 2,100 sales as values flatline in Q2 2026
A coastal market that turned over 2,127 transactions at a £300,000 median, with new build supply effectively absent and the BCP pipeline running tight.
- Median sale price
- £300,000
- Median price trend
- £300k
- Pending dev applications
- 122
- Pipeline value (GDV)
- £83.8m
0% YoY
359 units
74% approval rate (recent decisions)
Bournemouth recorded 2,127 residential transactions in the twelve months to March 2026 at a median price of £300,000, with values flat year on year. The structural number sits behind the headline: a single new build sale across the entire period, in a coastal town where retirement migration, conversions and small flat schemes do most of the heavy lifting.
What's driving the Bournemouth market
Bournemouth is the largest of the three coastal centres that make up the BCP unitary authority, and the latest Land Registry data shows a market that has stopped moving on price but kept moving on volume. The median across 2,127 sales settled at £300,000, with detached stock at £450,000, semi-detached at £332,500, terraces at £285,000 and flats at £200,000. That flat figure is the operative one. Bournemouth is a flat-led market in a way that most South Coast towns are not: leasehold apartment stock dominates BH1, BH2, BH5 and BH6, retirement-age buyers compress the active price band, and the gap between the median detached price and the median flat price is now £250,000. Year-on-year growth of zero percent reads as soft, but in a town that has absorbed two rounds of stamp duty change and a sharp rate cycle, the volume base has not eroded. The wider point for developers is that Bournemouth runs on demographic demand, retirement migration from the Home Counties and Midlands, and that demand is not rate-sensitive in the same way mortgage-driven markets are.
Market data at a glance
The Bournemouth numbers, visualised
Median sale price by property type
3,102 sales clearing across the type-mix
F£200,000
£200k
T£285,000
£285k
S£335,000
£335k
D£446,000
£446k
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid, rolling 12 months.
New build mix
-16.7% premium19
3,083
New build · 0.6%Existing stock
Planning approval rate
74%approved
of 432 decided applicationsBournemouth quarterly median price & volume
Median sale priceTransactions
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Median computed across all registered transactions per period.
How Bournemouth compares
Market
Median
YoY
12m txns
Bournemouth
£300,000
0%
3,102
South West average
£320,000
+1.6%
—
UK average
£285,000
+1.4%
—
Development pipeline
Live planning activity in Bournemouth
Idox planning data for the BCP authority covering Bournemouth is not currently captured in our weekly pull, so we cannot publish a verified live pipeline for the town itself. The wider Dorset picture from neighbouring markets is instructive. Poole, sitting directly west and inside the same BCP authority, posted 1,481 transactions at a £330,000 median with values up 1.5 percent year on year, a notably firmer reading than Bournemouth on price but lower on absolute volume. Weymouth, further west and outside BCP, recorded 838 transactions at £275,000 with values down 5.2 percent. The triangulation matters for developers: BCP as a combined market is delivering circa 3,600 transactions a year between Bournemouth and Poole at a blended median in the £310,000 to £320,000 range, with Poole the stronger price performer and Bournemouth the deeper volume base. We expect the BCP planning portal to surface a meaningful flat-conversion and small-site pipeline once captured, given the density of permitted development activity visible in central Bournemouth postcodes, but until that data is integrated, the regional read is the proxy.
Top schemes by GDV in the pipeline
Notable pending applications
PendingP/26/02340/RM
20
units
Approval of Reserved Matters application for appearance and landscaping in respect of Outline Permission APP/22/00956/P comprising construction of 20 dwellings considering access arrangements, layout and scale
PendingP/26/03172/HAB
28
units
Application for prior approval under Regulation 77 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 to allow commencement of permitted development; for the change of use of an existing offices((Use Class E) to form 28 flats (Class C3)
PendingP/26/04097/RM
25
units
Approval of Reserved Matters application for appearance and landscaping in respect of Outline Permission 8/22/0445/OUT for demolition of existing buildings and erection of a mixed use block consisting of 3 offices and 25 apartments with associated bin and cycle store
PendingP/26/03825/CONDR
25
units
Variation(or Removal) of conditions 4 (Approved Plans) and 13 (Bin Stores Construction) of planning permission 8/22/0445/OUT: (Outline application for demolition of existing buildings and erection of a mixed use block consisting of 3 offices and 25 apartments with associated bin and cycle stores) to revise the internal layout of the building, parking layout, pedestrian route into the site, bin collection point and the approved cycle/bin stores
PendingP/25/04892/FUL
24
units
Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a residential development comprising of 24 flats with associated access, parking, cycle and bin storage.
Source: BCP Council (Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole) portal. GDV estimates use local sales medians by property type.
Sales activity
Recent Bournemouth sold prices
Recent transactions show the spread that defines Bournemouth as a development market. At the upper end, 7 Moonstone at 139 to 141 Southbourne Overcliff Drive (BH6 3NP) sold leasehold for £647,500 in March 2026, a clifftop apartment that sets the ceiling for premium coastal flat stock, and 16 St Georges Avenue (BH8 9DF) traded detached freehold at £630,000. In the family-home bracket, 89 Keith Road (BH3 7DT) achieved £590,000 and 37 Gerald Road (BH3 7JZ) cleared £505,000, both detached freeholds in the established Talbot Woods catchment. The mid-market is where most volume sits: 38 Winston Road (BH9 3EQ) at £410,000, 51 Ripon Road (BH9 1QY) at £404,000 and 21 Namu Road (BH9 2QU) at £435,000 all reflect the BH9 detached price band. At the entry end, Flat 1 Aspire at 39 Queens Park Avenue (BH8 9LH) sold for £200,000 and 9 Statum at 2 Wootton Mount (BH1 1AY) for £168,000, defining the leasehold floor that any new conversion scheme has to clear.
Latest registered sales
Land Registry · 28 September 2026| Date | Address | Type | Tenure | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
29 July 2026 | 14, SUNNYLANDS AVENUE | D | F | £900,000 |
28 July 2026 | 29, WICKET ROAD | D | F | £260,000 |
27 July 2026 | 28, CHARMINSTER AVENUE | D | F | £370,000 |
27 July 2026 | FLAT 8, HOMEWEST HOUSE, 35, POOLE ROAD | F | L | £77,000 |
27 July 2026 | FLAT 2, CARBERY COURT, 89, SOUTHBOURNE ROAD | F | L | £316,000 |
24 July 2026 | 469, CHARMINSTER ROAD | F | L | £277,000 |
24 July 2026 | 39, LIVINGSTONE ROAD | S | F | £465,000 |
24 July 2026 | 11, BRADFORD ROAD | S | F | £355,000 |
Bournemouth runs on demographic demand, not mortgage cycles, and that is what keeps the volume base above 2,100 sales a year.
For developers
What this means for Bournemouth schemes
The Bournemouth market does not reward the volume housebuilder model and has not for some time. It rewards three strategies. First, seafront and clifftop flat schemes in BH1, BH2 and BH6, where finished GDVs in the Southbourne and East Cliff postcodes can clear £600,000 for premium units and where the £647,500 Moonstone sale sets a usable benchmark for clifftop pricing. Second, retirement living and later-life accommodation, where the buyer demographic is structurally embedded and where the median flat price of £200,000 sets a floor that age-restricted product can comfortably exceed with the right amenity proposition. Third, conversions of large period townhouses and tired post-war commercial stock into compliant apartment schemes, particularly across BH8 and BH9 where the inland family-home market provides a deep exit. We are typically quoting senior development finance at 9 to 12 percent on facilities supporting 65 to 70 percent LTGDV for these structures, with bridging from 0.65 percent per month where acquisition speed matters on auction-led seafront lots.
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Outlook
The next 12 months in Bournemouth
We expect Bournemouth transaction volumes to stay in the 2,000 to 2,200 range for the rest of 2026, with the median holding around £300,000 unless rates move sharply. The flat year-on-year reading is not a sell signal, it is a base-building number, and Poole's 1.5 percent positive print suggests the BCP authority as a whole is closer to turning than the headline implies. The Q3 question is whether BCP planning approvals visibly accelerate on flat conversions and retirement-led schemes, which is where most active developer demand sits. For schemes pencilling out now, the strategic priority is locking in pre-application engagement on seafront and clifftop sites before any rate-led pick-up tightens land pricing.
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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (sold prices); BCP Council (Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole) planning portal (planning applications); ONS House Price Index (regional benchmarks). Report generated 20 May 2026 by Construction Capital's market intelligence team.
Methodology: Pending GDV is estimated by multiplying declared unit counts by local sales medians for the corresponding property type. Approval rate is the share of decided applications (last 12 months) granted permission. Sold-price changes are year-on-year comparisons of the median sale price. Pipeline activity refers to residential development applications only — household extensions, conditions variations, and other non-development applications are excluded. Construction Capital is a trading name of Lenzie Consulting Ltd. (08174104).