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Arne market report BH20 4, Wareham
The BH20 4 (Arne) 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: 2,963 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH20 4 (Wareham) 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 middle 2026 sale in BH20 4 (Wareham) came in at £350,000, out of 25 registered, up 12% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £386,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,180 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,963 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BH20 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BH20 (Wareham). 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 BH20 4 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.
The going rate for a home in BH20 4
25 sales were registered in BH20 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £350,000. The mean works out at £386,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BH20 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH20 4 costs about £4,180 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH20 4 runs 23% above it.
The price of a typical BH20 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 88 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 71 |
| 2023 | £367,500 | £403,793 | 73 |
| 2022 | £332,500 | £389,894 | 75 |
| 2021 | £313,500 | £396,931 | 112 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 91 |
| 2019 | £287,500 | £376,844 | 91 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 99 |
| 2017 | £317,500 | £433,038 | 104 |
| 2016 | £288,200 | £403,195 | 128 |
| 2015 | £274,800 | £388,292 | 127 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 98 |
| 2013 | £233,000 | £335,264 | 85 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 81 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 65 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 58 |
| 2009 | £190,800 | £306,713 | 76 |
| 2008 | £231,200 | £378,986 | 50 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 101 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 122 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 99 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 98 |
| 2003 | £167,200 | £308,023 | 104 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 116 |
| 2001 | £117,500 | £225,888 | 119 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 129 |
| 1999 | £83,800 | £167,009 | 112 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 113 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 115 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 73 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical BH20 4 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 152%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH20 4 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 2001 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BH20 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in BH20 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 111 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 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.
The shape of the BH20 4 market
This is a thin market: 25 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around BH20 4
BH20 4 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £721 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,661, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £350,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
What people ask about BH20 4 (Arne)
How much did a house sell for in BH20 4 (Arne)?
Are property prices falling in BH20 4 (Arne)?
Is BH20 4 (Arne) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BH20 4 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BH20 today
Turning to what is actually available: 120 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH20 district, not just BH20 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 BH20 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.
What another bedroom costs in BH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 BH20
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH20's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH20 5 | £487,500 | 22 |
| BH20 6 | £306,000 | 30 |
| BH20 7 | £362,000 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full BH20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BH20 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH20 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BH20 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH20 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH20 4 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.