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Dorchester market report DT
The DT (Dorchester) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 135,983 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the DT postcode area (Dorchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the DT postcode area (Dorchester) came in at £305,000, out of 1,658 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £343,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 135,983 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The DT postcode area centred on Dorchester covers 11 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where DT 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 DT
In the DT property market, the 2026 median sale price is £305,000, from 1,658 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £343,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DT prices by floor area
Per square metre, DT homes have averaged around £3,660 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DT runs 7% above it.
A typical DT home, priced year by year (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 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 1,658 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 3,837 |
| 2024 | £322,500 | £342,884 | 3,528 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 3,341 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 4,123 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 5,030 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 3,530 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 3,847 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 4,092 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 4,308 |
| 2016 | £247,500 | £346,255 | 4,432 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 4,110 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 4,314 |
| 2013 | £216,000 | £310,802 | 3,805 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 3,123 |
| 2011 | £212,500 | £320,793 | 3,081 |
| 2010 | £219,000 | £343,448 | 3,239 |
| 2009 | £194,000 | £311,857 | 3,429 |
| 2008 | £217,500 | £356,528 | 2,752 |
| 2007 | £222,000 | £376,574 | 5,271 |
| 2006 | £202,000 | £350,646 | 5,895 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 4,771 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 5,267 |
| 2003 | £168,000 | £309,497 | 5,006 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 5,892 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 5,504 |
| 2000 | £94,500 | £185,456 | 4,905 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 5,783 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 4,995 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 5,171 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 4,487 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 3,457 |
In cash terms the typical DT home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DT 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 2002 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £451,200 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, DT
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 | £451,200 | 518 | 45,020 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 338 | 28,084 |
| Terraced | £259,500 | 534 | 40,920 |
| Flats | £165,000 | 268 | 21,959 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 2,979 DT 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 5,314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 3,297 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 homes rent for around DT
For renting purposes DT sits in Dorset, the local authority covering most of the DT area. 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.
Against the £305,000 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.
What people ask about DT (Dorchester)
Is DT (Dorchester) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT (Dorchester)?
Are property prices falling in DT (Dorchester)?
Will DT prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DT's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DT sold for. The live side of the market holds 860 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 39% above the DT median sold price.
DT registered 2,979 sales in the last twelve months; the 860 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
13% 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.
"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 DT 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.
The DT sales calendar
March is when DT changes hands most (11.2% of the 19,859 sales dated 2021 to 2025); May is the quiet end at 6.6%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,385 | 7.0% |
| February | 1,503 | 7.6% |
| March | 2,230 | 11.2% |
| April | 1,366 | 6.9% |
| May | 1,317 | 6.6% |
| June | 1,897 | 9.6% |
| July | 1,494 | 7.5% |
| August | 1,708 | 8.6% |
| September | 1,996 | 10.1% |
| October | 1,700 | 8.6% |
| November | 1,741 | 8.8% |
| December | 1,522 | 7.7% |
Bedroom by bedroom: DT prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DT area. 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 | £325,000 | £362,000 (+11%) | £419,000 (+16%) | £525,000 (+25%) | £700,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £235,500 | £280,000 (+19%) | £320,000 (+14%) | £410,000 (+28%) | £492,500 (+20%) |
| Terraced | £218,750 | £245,000 (+12%) | £270,000 (+10%) | £321,000 (+19%) | £395,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £180,000 (+38%) | £239,500 (+33%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £390,000 (+30%) |
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
The spread across the DT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, DT area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable DT district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| DT7 Lyme Regis, Uplyme | £435,000 | +6% | 29 |
| DT2 Athelhampton, Puddletown | £345,000 | -5% | 175 |
| DT6 Bridport, Melplash | £345,000 | -1% | 174 |
| DT10 Sturminster Newton, Stalbridge | £340,000 | +8% | 78 |
| DT11 Blandford Forum, Blandford Camp | £340,000 | +11% | 194 |
| DT8 Beaminster, Broadwindsor | £327,500 | -2% | 53 |
| DT3 Chickerell, Broadwey | £325,000 | +2% | 219 |
| DT9 Sherborne, Milborne Port | £307,500 | -4% | 154 |
| DT1 Dorchester, Poundbury | £276,000 | -11% | 169 |
| DT4 Weymouth town centre, Melcombe Regis | £250,000 | +7% | 302 |
| DT5 Fortuneswell, Easton | £230,000 | +7% | 111 |
Thinking of selling in DT? 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 DT'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.
Go deeper
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See every individual DT 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.