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Arne market report BH20 7, Wareham
The standing BH20 7 (Arne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,995 registered sales in BH20 7 (Wareham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 15 registered 2026 sales put the BH20 7 (Wareham) median at £362,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £415,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,990 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,995 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BH20 7 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 7 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 7
Across 15 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH20 7 home went for £362,000. The mean is £415,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BH20 7
A square metre of BH20 7 home has cost about £3,990 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BH20 7 sits 27% above the national market.
BH20 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £362,000 | £362,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £387,000 | £396,254 | 65 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 43 |
| 2023 | £398,500 | £437,854 | 42 |
| 2022 | £353,800 | £414,871 | 44 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 84 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 53 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 45 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 53 |
| 2017 | £342,500 | £467,136 | 66 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 61 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 59 |
| 2014 | £256,200 | £363,464 | 70 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 45 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 47 |
| 2011 | £295,000 | £445,337 | 37 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 46 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 47 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 39 |
| 2007 | £248,500 | £421,525 | 70 |
| 2006 | £234,500 | £407,062 | 86 |
| 2005 | £208,000 | £370,156 | 74 |
| 2004 | £217,500 | £395,022 | 65 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 83 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 112 |
| 2001 | £141,200 | £271,450 | 76 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 78 |
| 1999 | £107,000 | £213,245 | 92 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 67 |
| 1997 | £78,500 | £160,988 | 89 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 82 |
| 1995 | £80,800 | £175,647 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical BH20 7 home went from £80,800 in 1995 to £362,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 106%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH20 7 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 2011 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BH20 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.5% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
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.
BH20 7 recorded 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 81 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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 BH20 7 is
This is a thin market: 15 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.
What homes rent for around BH20 7
The local authority for BH20 7 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £721 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,661 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £362,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
BH20 7 (Arne): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BH20 7 (Arne)?
Are property prices falling in BH20 7 (Arne)?
Is BH20 7 (Arne) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BH20 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in BH20 right now
The live side of the market holds 120 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH20 district, not just BH20 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
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 6 | £306,000 | 30 |
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 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH20 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH20 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH20 7 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 BH20 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH20 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BH20 7 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.
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.