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Athelhampton market report DT2 8, Dorchester
The DT2 8 (Athelhampton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,452 HM Land Registry entries for DT2 8 (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: 56 registered 2026 sales put the DT2 8 (Dorchester) median at £316,000, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £342,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,452 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DT2 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DT2 (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 DT2 8 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 DT2 8
Take the 56 registered 2026 sales in DT2 8 and the middle price, the median, is £316,000. The mean lands at £342,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DT2 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of DT2 8 home has cost about £3,900 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DT2 8 11% above the national figure.
A typical DT2 8 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 | £316,000 | £316,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £362,500 | £371,168 | 112 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 129 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 128 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 145 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 178 |
| 2020 | £311,800 | £404,567 | 126 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 142 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 125 |
| 2017 | £282,800 | £385,711 | 142 |
| 2016 | £280,000 | £391,723 | 134 |
| 2015 | £265,800 | £375,575 | 112 |
| 2014 | £249,000 | £353,250 | 173 |
| 2013 | £237,000 | £341,019 | 150 |
| 2012 | £234,000 | £344,419 | 111 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 114 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 108 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 120 |
| 2008 | £270,000 | £442,587 | 89 |
| 2007 | £233,800 | £396,590 | 200 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 198 |
| 2005 | £226,900 | £403,791 | 144 |
| 2004 | £218,500 | £396,839 | 114 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 142 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 161 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 160 |
| 2000 | £122,500 | £240,406 | 143 |
| 1999 | £99,800 | £198,896 | 188 |
| 1998 | £93,500 | £188,736 | 155 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 185 |
| 1996 | £77,600 | £163,655 | 156 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 112 |
In cash terms the typical DT2 8 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £316,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 117%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT2 8 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 2000 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.8%). 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) | −12.8% | −14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 56 sales completed in DT2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around DT2 8
DT2 8 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £316,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
Reading the DT2 8 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT2 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: DT2 8 (Athelhampton)
Is DT2 8 (Athelhampton) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in DT2 8 (Athelhampton)?
Where do DT2 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
What is for sale in DT2 right 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- West Stafford, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester
- Brough Lane, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2
- Crossways, Dorchester, Dorchester
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 DT2 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 DT2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DT2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT2 0 | £252,500 | 19 |
| DT2 7 | £415,000 | 25 |
| 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 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DT2 8.
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The live map plots every individual DT2 8 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.
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.