Buy-to-let in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in figures

Gross rental yield

5.3% to 6.0%

By kind of home, across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Entry price, across its towns

£200,000 to £325,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

-1.9%

UK House Price Index, across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Price move, 10 years

+23.3%

7.2% below the year to May 2023, across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Population

405,829

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, +1.6% growth

• Flats across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole let for £1,080/mo against a median sale of £215,000 there: 6.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,398/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole fell 1.9% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +23% over ten years, 7% below the year to May 2023 (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)
• £11,500 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £200,000 buy-to-let
• 2 regeneration awards (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)
• 1,100 homes added across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• Band D £2,436 (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)
• 1.1% long-term empty across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• +21% five-year forecast for South West as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole moved +23.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and the latest year's average is 7.2% below its highest, the year to May 2023.

Employee jobs across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole moved +4.4% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

52% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Bournemouth's postcode districts are below band C (75,829 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £200,000 pays £11,500 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, South West) is a regional figure for South West as a whole, not a forecast for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Each yield is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole report

The full report measures Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

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