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Poundbury market report DT1 2, Dorchester
The standing DT1 2 (Poundbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,091 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DT1 2 (Dorchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DT1 2 (Dorchester) is £322,200, from 50 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £351,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,790 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,091 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DT1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DT1 (Dorchester). 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 DT1 2 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 a home in DT1 2 sells for
The DT1 2 median stands at £322,200 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £351,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DT1 2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DT1 2 costs about £3,790 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DT1 2 13% above the national figure.
A typical DT1 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £322,200 | £322,200 | 50 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 165 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 154 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 143 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 146 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 183 |
| 2020 | £283,200 | £367,458 | 108 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 155 |
| 2018 | £262,000 | £349,251 | 171 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 174 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 165 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 174 |
| 2014 | £226,000 | £320,620 | 203 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 211 |
| 2012 | £224,000 | £329,700 | 148 |
| 2011 | £212,000 | £320,038 | 151 |
| 2010 | £206,000 | £323,061 | 184 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 149 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 130 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 196 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 234 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 221 |
| 2004 | £179,000 | £325,099 | 185 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 264 |
| 2002 | £131,200 | £246,852 | 288 |
| 2001 | £101,000 | £194,167 | 304 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 225 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 283 |
| 1998 | £69,700 | £140,694 | 258 |
| 1997 | £62,600 | £128,380 | 247 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 247 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 175 |
In cash terms the typical DT1 2 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £322,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DT1 2 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 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in DT1 2
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 register shows 50 DT1 2 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 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 132 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.
What tenants pay around DT1 2
DT1 2 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.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £322,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
How DT1 2 trades
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the DT1 district median, DT1 2 sits 17% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on DT1 2 (Poundbury)
Is DT1 2 (Poundbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT1 2 (Poundbury)?
Are property prices falling in DT1 2 (Poundbury)?
Will DT1 2 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 18% 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.
DT1's current homes for sale
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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 DT1 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.
What another bedroom costs in DT
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DT 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DT area, five years
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 1 | £219,800 | 54 |
| 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 2? 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 DT1 2'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.
Estate agents working DT1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DT1 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DT1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.