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Studland market report BH19 1, Swanage
The BH19 1 (Studland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,368 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH19 1 (Swanage) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BH19 1 (Swanage) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 49 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £455,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,368 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BH19 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BH19 (Swanage). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BH19 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in BH19 1
Across 49 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH19 1 home went for £405,000. The mean is £455,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BH19 1
By floor space, homes in BH19 1 have sold for about £4,630 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH19 1 runs 42% above it.
BH19 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 101 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 111 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 111 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 160 |
| 2020 | £353,500 | £458,674 | 115 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 121 |
| 2018 | £302,000 | £402,572 | 115 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 110 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 136 |
| 2015 | £283,800 | £401,009 | 124 |
| 2014 | £248,700 | £352,824 | 134 |
| 2013 | £252,500 | £363,322 | 124 |
| 2012 | £243,500 | £358,402 | 95 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 117 |
| 2010 | £246,000 | £385,791 | 108 |
| 2009 | £208,000 | £334,362 | 105 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 106 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 187 |
| 2006 | £213,000 | £369,741 | 206 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 168 |
| 2004 | £244,000 | £443,152 | 175 |
| 2003 | £179,500 | £330,683 | 149 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 183 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 195 |
| 2000 | £110,500 | £216,856 | 188 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 207 |
| 1998 | £80,800 | £163,101 | 174 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 156 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 146 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical BH19 1 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 184%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH19 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.5% | +9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BH19 1
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BH19 1 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 181 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market BH19 1 is
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around BH19 1
BH19 1 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £721 a month here against £1,661 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £405,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: BH19 1 (Studland)
Are property prices falling in BH19 1 (Studland)?
Is BH19 1 (Studland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH19 1 (Studland)?
Where do BH19 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in BH19 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 171 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH19 district, not just BH19 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Northbrook Road, Swanage, Swanage
- Richmond House, 27 Rabling Road, Swanage
- Cliff Avenue, Swanage, Swanage
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BH19 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BH: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £375,000 | £500,000 (+33%) | £744,000 (+49%) | £1,083,250 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £293,000 | £329,975 (+13%) | £375,000 (+14%) | £480,000 (+28%) | £700,000 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £265,000 | £305,000 (+15%) | £350,000 (+15%) | £460,000 (+31%) | £600,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £175,000 | £245,000 (+40%) | £372,500 (+52%) | £625,000 (+68%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BH19
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH19's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH19 2 | £435,000 | 27 |
| BH19 3 | £663,500 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full BH19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH19 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH19 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH19 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH19 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH19 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH19 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH19 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BH19 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.