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Athelhampton market report DT2 9, Dorchester
The standing DT2 9 (Athelhampton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,816 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DT2 9 (Dorchester) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in DT2 9 (Dorchester) sold for £341,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £427,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,816 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DT2 9 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 9 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.
Today's DT2 9 prices, from the sold record
The DT2 9 median stands at £341,000 for 2026, built from 47 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £427,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
DT2 9 prices by floor area
A square metre of DT2 9 home has cost about £3,640 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, DT2 9 runs 20% above it.
The price of a typical DT2 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £341,000 | £341,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £357,800 | £366,356 | 138 |
| 2024 | £437,500 | £465,152 | 124 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 117 |
| 2022 | £336,500 | £394,585 | 144 |
| 2021 | £363,000 | £459,605 | 171 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 141 |
| 2019 | £327,500 | £429,274 | 170 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 160 |
| 2017 | £282,200 | £384,892 | 124 |
| 2016 | £252,500 | £353,250 | 126 |
| 2015 | £269,800 | £381,227 | 134 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 148 |
| 2013 | £236,000 | £339,580 | 128 |
| 2012 | £222,000 | £326,756 | 103 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 98 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 109 |
| 2009 | £210,500 | £338,381 | 96 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 106 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 202 |
| 2006 | £232,000 | £402,722 | 216 |
| 2005 | £244,500 | £435,111 | 206 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 220 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 199 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 284 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 200 |
| 2000 | £114,600 | £224,903 | 206 |
| 1999 | £100,500 | £200,291 | 197 |
| 1998 | £90,200 | £182,075 | 110 |
| 1997 | £76,200 | £156,271 | 126 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 153 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical DT2 9 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £341,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 121%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT2 9 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 2003 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DT2 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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 47 DT2 9 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 217 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 tenants pay around DT2 9
DT2 9 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 £341,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Reading the DT2 9 market
This is a thin market: 47 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: DT2 9 (Athelhampton)
How much did a house sell for in DT2 9 (Athelhampton)?
Are property prices falling in DT2 9 (Athelhampton)?
Is DT2 9 (Athelhampton) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DT2 9 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
DT2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 232 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT2 district, not just DT2 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DT
Real sold prices by size across the DT area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DT area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 7 | £415,000 | 25 |
| DT2 8 | £316,000 | 56 |
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 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DT2 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the DT2 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DT2 9 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 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DT2 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT2 9 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.