The average house price in Bournemouth is ยฃN/A.
That's the number most sites stop at.
Bread Index goes one step further.
Alongside the usual ยฃ price, this page also shows house prices in loaves of bread. It's the same official data, just viewed through a lens that reflects everyday costs more closely.
If house prices feel disconnected from day-to-day life, this is why.
Scroll the chart and switch between ยฃ and ๐ to see how different the story looks.
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Both numbers describe the same homes.
Only one reflects what rising everyday prices have done along the way.
Pounds are fine for today's price. They're less useful when comparing different years.
Over the last decade, and especially the last few years, everyday costs have moved quickly. Food, energy, rent, and basics all changed in ways many people felt long before the headlines caught up.
The bread view is a simple adjustment:
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It doesn't try to predict anything. It just helps answer a cleaner question:
Did houses in Bournemouth become more expensive in real terms, or did the pound quietly buy less?
From Unknown to Unknown, the Bournemouth housing market went through clear phases.
Measured in loaves of bread:
If the ยฃ line and the ๐ line diverge, that's not an error. It's the difference between headline prices and lived costs.
The bread view is especially useful when comparing different types of homes.
You can see prices for:
Some segments clearly pulled ahead. Others mostly kept pace with rising costs elsewhere in the economy.
This page won't tell you where prices are going next.
It will help you:
It's a reality check, not a forecast.
Bread is a proxy. It's not perfect, but it tracks everyday costs closely enough to be useful.
Bread Index: Finance, baked.
Most house price pages give you a number and a percentage change. That's rarely enough to understand what actually happened.
Bread Index exists to show familiar data in ways that are harder to misread and easier to relate to. Housing is the starting point. Next up are wages, rents, and deposit-to-income views using the same approach.
The current average price is ยฃN/A, updated Invalid Date.
In pounds, prices have remained stable. In bread terms, the trend is remained stable. The difference comes from changes in everyday prices.
Not in the traditional sense. The bread view uses a real-world cost proxy instead of a formal inflation index.
Because it's familiar, widely bought, and reflects everyday price pressure better than abstract percentages.
If you've ever felt like house price charts didn't line up with how expensive life actually felt at the time, this page is meant to test that feeling against the data.