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Poundbury market report DT1 3, Dorchester
The DT1 3 (Poundbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,160 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DT1 3 (Dorchester) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DT1 3 (Dorchester) is £290,500, from 42 registered sales, down 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £334,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,960 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,160 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DT1 3 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 3 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 DT1 3
The DT1 3 median stands at £290,500 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £334,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in DT1 3
By floor space, homes in DT1 3 have sold for about £3,960 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 DT1 3 2% above the national figure.
The price of a typical DT1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,500 | £290,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 131 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 141 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 147 |
| 2022 | £443,000 | £519,468 | 166 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 195 |
| 2020 | £385,000 | £499,545 | 134 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 153 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 161 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 163 |
| 2016 | £333,000 | £465,870 | 158 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 119 |
| 2014 | £325,400 | £461,637 | 84 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 108 |
| 2012 | £278,200 | £409,476 | 96 |
| 2011 | £272,500 | £411,370 | 97 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 87 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 83 |
| 2008 | £270,000 | £442,587 | 61 |
| 2007 | £299,000 | £507,187 | 106 |
| 2006 | £272,500 | £473,025 | 130 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 112 |
| 2004 | £257,500 | £467,670 | 90 |
| 2003 | £242,500 | £446,744 | 62 |
| 2002 | £181,500 | £341,491 | 78 |
| 2001 | £172,800 | £332,199 | 66 |
| 2000 | £137,800 | £270,433 | 30 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 41 |
| 1998 | £132,700 | £267,864 | 41 |
| 1997 | £90,400 | £185,392 | 33 |
| 1996 | £80,700 | £170,193 | 26 |
| 1995 | £99,400 | £216,080 | 19 |
In cash terms the typical DT1 3 home went from £99,400 in 1995 to £290,500 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 34%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 46% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT1 3 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 1998 (+46.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−34.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DT1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −34.0% | −35.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.2% | −10.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.4% | −4.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.4% |
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.
Sales activity in DT1 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in DT1 3. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 125 sales a year over the last five years against 84 before the financial crisis. 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.
Reading the DT1 3 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 DT1 3
The local authority for DT1 3 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £721 a month here against £1,661 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £290,500 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Common questions on DT1 3 (Poundbury)
Is DT1 3 (Poundbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT1 3 (Poundbury)?
Are property prices falling in DT1 3 (Poundbury)?
Where do DT1 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 27% over five years in cash but down 43% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in DT1 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in DT
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%) | — | — |
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.
DT area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DT1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DT1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT1 1 | £219,800 | 54 |
| DT1 2 | £322,200 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full DT1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DT1 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DT1 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DT1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DT1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT1 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.