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Verwood market report BH31
The BH31 (Verwood) 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: 10,868 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH31 (Verwood) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BH31 (Verwood) came in at £410,000, out of 85 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £405,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,370 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,868 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district BH31 covering Verwood sits in Verwood. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BH31 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.
BH31 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 85 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH31 home went for £410,000. The mean is £405,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BH31
By floor space, homes in BH31 have sold for about £4,370 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 BH31 44% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BH31 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 85 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 235 |
| 2024 | £402,500 | £427,940 | 219 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 218 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 271 |
| 2021 | £392,500 | £496,956 | 339 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 256 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 259 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 256 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 287 |
| 2016 | £317,000 | £443,486 | 303 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 318 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 319 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 304 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 265 |
| 2011 | £247,500 | £373,630 | 256 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 233 |
| 2009 | £236,500 | £380,176 | 256 |
| 2008 | £241,000 | £395,050 | 162 |
| 2007 | £248,000 | £420,677 | 443 |
| 2006 | £242,500 | £420,949 | 456 |
| 2005 | £224,200 | £398,986 | 334 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 468 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 410 |
| 2002 | £172,800 | £325,122 | 576 |
| 2001 | £154,200 | £296,442 | 532 |
| 2000 | £144,500 | £283,581 | 508 |
| 1999 | £122,000 | £243,140 | 564 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 484 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 550 |
| 1996 | £86,000 | £181,370 | 416 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 286 |
In cash terms the typical BH31 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 162%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH31 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 2003 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−2.8%). 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) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 64% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £467,500 against £157,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, BH31
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 | £467,500 | 56 | 6,963 |
| Semi-detached | £361,200 | 8 | 1,387 |
| Terraced | £281,200 | 14 | 1,835 |
| Flats | £157,000 | 7 | 683 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 183 BH31 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 466 sales a year before the financial crisis and 206 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of BH31
For renting purposes BH31 sits in Dorset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,041 a month (May 2026). 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 £410,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. 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 BH31 (Verwood)
Is BH31 (Verwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH31 (Verwood)?
Are property prices falling in BH31 (Verwood)?
Will BH31 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BH31 today
Everything above is what homes in BH31 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 33 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the BH31 median sold price.
27% 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.
- Dewlands Road, Verwood, Dorset
- Dewlands Common, Verwood, Dorset, BH31
- Ringwood Road, Verwood, Dorset, BH31
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 BH31 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BH31 ranks 13 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BH31, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH31 6 | £401,500 | 60 |
| BH31 7 | £420,000 | 25 |
How BH31 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 (this report) | £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 BH31? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH31'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 BH31.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH31 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH31 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.