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Athelhampton market report DT2, Dorchester
The DT2 (Athelhampton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 13,897 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DT2 (Dorchester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 147 registered 2026 sales put the DT2 (Dorchester) median at £340,000, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £392,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 13,897 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DT2 is the postcode district covering Athelhampton, Puddletown, Crossways in Dorchester. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where DT2 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for DT2 is £340,000, taken from 147 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £392,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
DT2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DT2 costs about £3,770 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 trades 19% above the country as a whole.
DT2's median sold price, 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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 147 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 378 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 361 |
| 2023 | £412,500 | £453,237 | 356 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 394 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 551 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 381 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 410 |
| 2018 | £295,000 | £393,241 | 425 |
| 2017 | £303,000 | £413,262 | 397 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 409 |
| 2015 | £276,000 | £389,988 | 385 |
| 2014 | £248,000 | £351,831 | 485 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 413 |
| 2012 | £242,200 | £356,488 | 330 |
| 2011 | £248,000 | £374,385 | 321 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 347 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 336 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 315 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 615 |
| 2006 | £242,500 | £420,949 | 623 |
| 2005 | £238,800 | £424,968 | 483 |
| 2004 | £218,000 | £395,931 | 504 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 515 |
| 2002 | £158,000 | £297,276 | 628 |
| 2001 | £132,800 | £255,301 | 529 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 509 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 573 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 428 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 519 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 469 |
| 1995 | £74,500 | £161,952 | 361 |
In cash terms the typical DT2 home went from £74,500 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 110%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT2 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 (+23.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £475,000 against £191,400 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, DT2
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £475,000 | 60 | 6,244 |
| Semi-detached | £340,500 | 32 | 3,501 |
| Terraced | £285,000 | 47 | 3,124 |
| Flats | £191,400 | 8 | 1,028 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.1% | −10.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DT2 recorded 300 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 551 sales a year before the financial crisis and 327 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around DT2
For renting purposes DT2 sits in Dorset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,041 a month (May 2026). 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 £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
What kind of market DT2 is
Among the 11 measurable districts of its area, DT2 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about DT2 (Athelhampton)
How much did a house sell for in DT2 (Athelhampton)?
Are property prices falling in DT2 (Athelhampton)?
Is DT2 (Athelhampton) a good place to buy a house?
Will DT2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
DT2's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DT2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 232 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% above the DT2 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"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 →
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. 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
DT2 ranks 10 of 11 in the DT area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the DT area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DT2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT2 0 | £252,500 | 19 |
| DT2 7 | £415,000 | 25 |
| DT2 8 | £316,000 | 56 |
| DT2 9 | £341,000 | 47 |
How DT2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DT area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DT7 | £420,000 | +2% |
| DT6 | £345,000 | -1% |
| DT2 (this report) | £340,000 | -7% |
| DT11 | £340,000 | +11% |
| DT3 | £332,000 | +5% |
| DT10 | £330,000 | +5% |
| DT8 | £326,200 | -3% |
| DT9 | £305,000 | -5% |
| DT1 | £275,000 | -11% |
| DT4 | £250,000 | +7% |
| DT5 | £230,000 | +7% |
Thinking of selling in DT2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DT2, open the average prices map and zoom from the DT2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DT2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DT2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DT2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT2 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.