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Studland market report BH19, Swanage
The standing BH19 (Studland) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,265 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH19 (Swanage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BH19 (Swanage) sold for £433,800 in 2026, the median of 88 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier. The mean was £518,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,770 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,265 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BH19 is a postcode district covering Swanage, Studland, Langton Matravers in Swanage. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BH19 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
Take the 88 registered 2026 sales in BH19 and the middle price, the median, is £433,800. The mean lands at £518,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BH19
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH19 costs about £4,770 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BH19 trades 52% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BH19 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £433,800 | £433,800 | 88 |
| 2025 | £355,000 | £363,489 | 196 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 202 |
| 2023 | £402,500 | £442,249 | 216 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 229 |
| 2021 | £353,800 | £447,956 | 324 |
| 2020 | £348,800 | £452,575 | 230 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 229 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 255 |
| 2017 | £309,000 | £421,445 | 250 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 268 |
| 2015 | £280,800 | £396,770 | 300 |
| 2014 | £263,000 | £373,111 | 285 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 236 |
| 2012 | £247,000 | £363,553 | 233 |
| 2011 | £257,500 | £388,726 | 266 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 241 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 221 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 214 |
| 2007 | £248,200 | £421,016 | 344 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 447 |
| 2005 | £222,200 | £395,426 | 338 |
| 2004 | £216,500 | £393,206 | 358 |
| 2003 | £184,500 | £339,894 | 333 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 383 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 395 |
| 2000 | £113,500 | £222,744 | 392 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 457 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 401 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 373 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 331 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 230 |
In cash terms the typical BH19 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £433,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 233%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH19 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 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.2% | +19.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £582,500 against £245,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BH19
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £582,500 | 40 | 3,063 |
| Semi-detached | £432,500 | 11 | 1,117 |
| Terraced | £388,500 | 8 | 1,546 |
| Flats | £245,000 | 29 | 3,539 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 168 BH19 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 374 sales a year before the financial crisis and 186 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 tenants pay around BH19
For renting purposes BH19 sits in Dorset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,041 a month (May 2026). 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 £433,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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.
The shape of the BH19 market
Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, BH19 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on BH19 (Studland)
Are property prices falling in BH19 (Studland)?
Is BH19 (Studland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH19 (Studland)?
Are BH19 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BH19 today
Everything above is what homes in BH19 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 171 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the BH19 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH19 ranks 1 of 26 in the BH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BH19, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH19 1 | £405,000 | 49 |
| BH19 2 | £435,000 | 27 |
| BH19 3 | £663,500 | 12 |
How BH19 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BH18 | £545,000 | +21% |
| BH13 | £518,800 | -3% |
| BH24 | £450,000 | -7% |
| BH7 | £445,000 | +16% |
| BH19 (this report) | £433,800 | +23% |
| BH23 | £420,000 | +11% |
| BH21 | £412,500 | +3% |
| BH31 | £410,000 | +4% |
| BH6 | £406,000 | +4% |
| BH14 | £400,000 | +0% |
| BH25 | £400,000 | -5% |
| BH22 | £385,000 | -4% |
| BH20 | £375,000 | +8% |
| BH9 | £353,600 | +9% |
| BH10 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BH3 | £327,500 | -30% |
| BH15 | £320,000 | +7% |
| BH16 | £320,000 | +3% |
| BH17 | £320,000 | +11% |
| BH11 | £315,000 | +10% |
| BH12 | £308,000 | +4% |
| BH8 | £297,500 | +8% |
| BH4 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 | £225,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in BH19? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH19, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH19 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH19 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BH19.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH19 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH19 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.