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Arne market report BH20, Wareham
The BH20 (Arne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,082 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH20 (Wareham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BH20 (Wareham) is £375,000, from 92 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £449,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,300 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,082 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH20 is a postcode district covering Wareham, Arne, Corfe Castle in Wareham. 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 BH20 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 BH20 homes really sell for
92 sales were registered in BH20 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £375,000. The mean works out at £449,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
BH20 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BH20 have sold for about £4,300 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, BH20 runs 32% above it.
The price of a typical BH20 home, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 92 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 250 |
| 2024 | £371,000 | £394,449 | 213 |
| 2023 | £384,200 | £422,142 | 226 |
| 2022 | £358,000 | £419,796 | 229 |
| 2021 | £348,200 | £440,866 | 351 |
| 2020 | £332,500 | £431,426 | 256 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 232 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 289 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 301 |
| 2016 | £295,000 | £412,708 | 309 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 319 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 300 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 273 |
| 2012 | £238,000 | £350,306 | 225 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 191 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 235 |
| 2009 | £213,500 | £343,203 | 233 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 180 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 383 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 358 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 299 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 300 |
| 2003 | £168,500 | £310,418 | 357 |
| 2002 | £148,500 | £279,401 | 430 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 351 |
| 2000 | £118,500 | £232,556 | 356 |
| 1999 | £102,000 | £203,281 | 349 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 328 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 376 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 264 |
| 1995 | £70,500 | £153,256 | 227 |
In cash terms the typical BH20 home went from £70,500 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH20 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 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.8%). 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) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £562,500 against £185,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, BH20
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 | £562,500 | 38 | 3,897 |
| Semi-detached | £354,000 | 18 | 2,086 |
| Terraced | £305,000 | 27 | 2,196 |
| Flats | £185,000 | 9 | 903 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 214 sales completed in BH20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 354 sales a year before the financial crisis and 202 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.
How BH20 trades
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.
The rental side of BH20
BH20 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
BH20 (Arne): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BH20 (Arne)?
Are property prices falling in BH20 (Arne)?
Is BH20 (Arne) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BH20 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
BH20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BH20 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 120 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% above the BH20 median sold price.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH20 ranks 10 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BH20, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH20 4 | £350,000 | 25 |
| BH20 5 | £487,500 | 22 |
| BH20 6 | £306,000 | 30 |
| BH20 7 | £362,000 | 15 |
How BH20 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 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in BH20? 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'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.
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Keep digging
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See every individual BH20 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.