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Fortuneswell market report DT5 2, Portland
The DT5 2 (Fortuneswell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,332 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DT5 2 (Portland) 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 typical home in DT5 2 (Portland) sold for £245,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier. The mean was £242,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,332 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like DT5 2 is a single group of streets within DT5 (Portland), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DT5 2 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 a home in DT5 2 sells for
37 sales were registered in DT5 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,000. The mean works out at £242,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DT5 2
Per square metre, DT5 2 homes have averaged around £2,900 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DT5 2 trades 14% below the country as a whole.
A typical DT5 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 125 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 111 |
| 2023 | £247,500 | £271,942 | 106 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 142 |
| 2021 | £195,000 | £246,895 | 124 |
| 2020 | £190,000 | £246,529 | 102 |
| 2019 | £187,000 | £245,112 | 126 |
| 2018 | £180,000 | £239,943 | 121 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 153 |
| 2016 | £173,500 | £242,728 | 131 |
| 2015 | £166,500 | £235,265 | 114 |
| 2014 | £157,000 | £222,732 | 113 |
| 2013 | £153,500 | £220,871 | 88 |
| 2012 | £147,200 | £216,660 | 76 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 78 |
| 2010 | £151,000 | £236,807 | 83 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 91 |
| 2008 | £160,500 | £263,093 | 67 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 141 |
| 2006 | £156,000 | £270,796 | 197 |
| 2005 | £148,200 | £263,736 | 164 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 195 |
| 2003 | £122,000 | £224,754 | 156 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 218 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 227 |
| 2000 | £62,200 | £122,068 | 174 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 276 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 194 |
| 1997 | £43,600 | £89,415 | 153 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 121 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 128 |
In cash terms the typical DT5 2 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 197%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DT5 2 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DT5 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.7% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
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, 37 sales completed in DT5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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.
The shape of the DT5 2 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around DT5 2
For renting purposes DT5 2 sits in Dorset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,041 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £721 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,661, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 5.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: DT5 2 (Fortuneswell)
Are property prices falling in DT5 2 (Fortuneswell)?
Is DT5 2 (Fortuneswell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT5 2 (Fortuneswell)?
Will DT5 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat 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.
DT5's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 136 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT5 district, not just DT5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Verne Common Road, Portland, Portland
- Ayton Drive, Portland, Portland
- Verne Common Road, Portland, Portland
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 DT5 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
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 DT5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DT5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT5 1 | £225,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full DT5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DT5 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DT5 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DT5 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DT5 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DT5 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.