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Athelhampton market report DT2 7, Dorchester
The standing DT2 7 (Athelhampton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,777 HM Land Registry entries for DT2 7 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DT2 7 (Dorchester) came in at £415,000, out of 25 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £460,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,780 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,777 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like DT2 7 is a single group of streets within DT2 (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 DT2 7 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.
DT2 7 sold prices: where the market stands
25 sales were registered in DT2 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £415,000. The mean works out at £460,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DT2 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DT2 7 costs about £3,780 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DT2 7 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DT2 7 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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £428,800 | £439,054 | 66 |
| 2024 | £412,500 | £438,572 | 62 |
| 2023 | £408,500 | £448,842 | 73 |
| 2022 | £458,500 | £537,644 | 56 |
| 2021 | £402,500 | £509,617 | 132 |
| 2020 | £369,500 | £479,434 | 74 |
| 2019 | £373,800 | £489,962 | 54 |
| 2018 | £350,500 | £467,223 | 81 |
| 2017 | £396,200 | £540,377 | 80 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 83 |
| 2015 | £321,200 | £453,856 | 90 |
| 2014 | £299,800 | £425,319 | 96 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 96 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 78 |
| 2011 | £278,500 | £420,428 | 64 |
| 2010 | £310,500 | £486,944 | 80 |
| 2009 | £263,800 | £424,061 | 84 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 65 |
| 2007 | £308,000 | £522,454 | 125 |
| 2006 | £292,000 | £506,875 | 127 |
| 2005 | £278,000 | £494,728 | 73 |
| 2004 | £243,000 | £441,335 | 98 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 103 |
| 2002 | £191,500 | £360,306 | 100 |
| 2001 | £167,000 | £321,049 | 95 |
| 2000 | £149,500 | £293,394 | 97 |
| 1999 | £137,800 | £274,628 | 110 |
| 1998 | £119,900 | £242,027 | 102 |
| 1997 | £112,100 | £229,894 | 124 |
| 1996 | £88,200 | £186,010 | 96 |
| 1995 | £95,500 | £207,602 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical DT2 7 home went from £95,500 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 100%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DT2 7 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 1997 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−11.5%). 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) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in DT2 7
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
DT2 7 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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.
Reading the DT2 7 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT2 7 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. Against the DT2 district median, DT2 7 sits 22% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around DT2 7
The local authority for DT2 7 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.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £415,000 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.
Common questions on DT2 7 (Athelhampton)
Is DT2 7 (Athelhampton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT2 7 (Athelhampton)?
Are property prices falling in DT2 7 (Athelhampton)?
Where do DT2 7 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
What you could buy in DT2 now
The live side of the market holds 232 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT2 district, not just DT2 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- West Stafford, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester
- Brough Lane, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2
- Crossways, Dorchester, Dorchester
"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 DT2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DT: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DT area. 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 DT2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DT2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT2 0 | £252,500 | 19 |
| DT2 8 | £316,000 | 56 |
| DT2 9 | £341,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full DT2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DT2 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DT2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the DT2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DT2 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DT2 7.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DT2 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT2 7 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.
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.