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Poundbury market report DT1 1, Dorchester
The DT1 1 (Poundbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,050 HM Land Registry entries for DT1 1 (Dorchester), 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: a typical DT1 1 (Dorchester) home changed hands for £219,800 in 2026 (median of 54 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £225,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,050 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like DT1 1 is a single group of streets within DT1 (Dorchester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DT1 1 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 buyers actually paid in DT1 1
54 sales were registered in DT1 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £219,800. The mean works out at £225,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
DT1 1 prices by floor area
A square metre of DT1 1 home has cost about £3,300 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DT1 1 runs 23% below it.
A typical DT1 1 home, priced year by year (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 | £219,800 | £219,800 | 54 |
| 2025 | £267,000 | £273,385 | 145 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 119 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 113 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 208 |
| 2021 | £241,200 | £305,390 | 172 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 106 |
| 2019 | £224,000 | £293,610 | 156 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 162 |
| 2017 | £230,500 | £314,379 | 232 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 270 |
| 2015 | £193,000 | £272,709 | 177 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 188 |
| 2013 | £197,800 | £284,614 | 180 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 114 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 96 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 119 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 158 |
| 2008 | £182,200 | £298,664 | 138 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 238 |
| 2006 | £171,000 | £296,834 | 179 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 146 |
| 2004 | £161,500 | £293,316 | 137 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 139 |
| 2002 | £131,800 | £247,981 | 236 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 178 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 162 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 195 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 148 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 150 |
| 1996 | £50,800 | £107,135 | 143 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical DT1 1 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £219,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 108%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 35% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DT1 1 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 (+44.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.7%). 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) | −17.7% | −19.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.7% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DT1 1
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 54 DT1 1 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 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 128 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 DT1 1 trades
This is a thin market: 54 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. 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. Against the DT1 district median, DT1 1 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around DT1 1
DT1 1 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £219,800 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: DT1 1 (Poundbury)
How much did a house sell for in DT1 1 (Poundbury)?
Are property prices falling in DT1 1 (Poundbury)?
Is DT1 1 (Poundbury) a good place to buy a house?
Will DT1 1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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.
On the market in DT1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 143 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT1 district, not just DT1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 DT1 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: DT prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the DT area, straight 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 | — | £350,000 | £455,000 (+30%) | £670,000 (+47%) | £870,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £236,000 | £285,000 (+21%) | £345,000 (+21%) | £457,000 (+32%) | £586,750 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £225,000 | £255,000 (+13%) | £300,000 (+18%) | £375,000 (+25%) | £553,750 (+48%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £212,000 (+51%) | £307,500 (+45%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
DT area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DT1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DT1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT1 2 | £322,200 | 50 |
| DT1 3 | £290,500 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full DT1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DT1 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT1 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT1 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT1 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DT1 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DT1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DT1 1 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.
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.