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Arne market report BH20 6, Wareham
The BH20 6 (Arne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,354 HM Land Registry entries for BH20 6 (Wareham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BH20 6 (Wareham) is £306,000, from 30 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £376,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,990 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,354 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH20 6 is one sector of BH20 (Wareham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BH20 6 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 a home in BH20 6 sells for
In the BH20 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £306,000, from 30 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £376,100, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
BH20 6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BH20 6 have sold for about £3,990 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH20 6 7% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BH20 6 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 | £306,000 | £306,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 58 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 57 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 71 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 72 |
| 2021 | £312,500 | £395,665 | 96 |
| 2020 | £273,000 | £354,223 | 67 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 59 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 85 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 77 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 75 |
| 2015 | £228,500 | £322,871 | 72 |
| 2014 | £229,000 | £324,877 | 79 |
| 2013 | £212,500 | £305,766 | 80 |
| 2012 | £213,000 | £313,509 | 60 |
| 2011 | £212,000 | £320,038 | 54 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 74 |
| 2009 | £182,500 | £293,370 | 67 |
| 2008 | £231,000 | £378,658 | 61 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 158 |
| 2006 | £213,500 | £370,609 | 76 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 67 |
| 2004 | £177,000 | £321,467 | 75 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 109 |
| 2002 | £120,700 | £227,096 | 116 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 88 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 75 |
| 1999 | £87,500 | £174,383 | 61 |
| 1998 | £83,400 | £168,349 | 71 |
| 1997 | £68,500 | £140,480 | 59 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 49 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical BH20 6 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £306,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 139%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH20 6 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 2004 (+41.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.0%). 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) | −7.3% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
BH20 6 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 96 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of BH20 6
The local authority for BH20 6 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £306,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 4.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the BH20 6 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. Against the BH20 district median, BH20 6 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: BH20 6 (Arne)
How much did a house sell for in BH20 6 (Arne)?
Are property prices falling in BH20 6 (Arne)?
Is BH20 6 (Arne) a good place to buy a house?
Will BH20 6 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 BH20 right now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BH20 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — |
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH20
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH20, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH20 4 | £350,000 | 25 |
| BH20 5 | £487,500 | 22 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BH20 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH20 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH20 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH20 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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See every individual BH20 6 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.