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Fortuneswell market report DT5, Portland
The DT5 (Fortuneswell) 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: 8,155 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DT5 (Portland) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 94 registered 2026 sales put the DT5 (Portland) median at £230,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £234,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,155 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DT5 is a postcode district covering Fortuneswell, Easton, Southwell in Portland. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DT5 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.
The going rate for a home in DT5
94 sales were registered in DT5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £230,000. The mean works out at £234,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in DT5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DT5 sales average about £2,810 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DT5 19% below the national figure.
DT5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 94 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 236 |
| 2024 | £231,200 | £245,813 | 196 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 189 |
| 2022 | £232,500 | £272,633 | 279 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 329 |
| 2020 | £199,000 | £258,207 | 241 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 228 |
| 2018 | £187,000 | £249,275 | 248 |
| 2017 | £172,500 | £235,273 | 268 |
| 2016 | £167,000 | £233,635 | 234 |
| 2015 | £167,500 | £236,678 | 224 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 233 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 215 |
| 2012 | £150,500 | £221,517 | 158 |
| 2011 | £152,500 | £230,216 | 140 |
| 2010 | £152,000 | £238,375 | 129 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 173 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 146 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 264 |
| 2006 | £159,500 | £276,872 | 370 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 303 |
| 2004 | £136,000 | £247,003 | 339 |
| 2003 | £122,500 | £225,675 | 286 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 379 |
| 2001 | £76,200 | £146,491 | 384 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 309 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 434 |
| 1998 | £47,800 | £96,488 | 348 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 305 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 244 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 230 |
In cash terms the typical DT5 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 190%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT5 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 (+32.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.3%). 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) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 63% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £319,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, DT5
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 | £319,000 | 16 | 991 |
| Semi-detached | £237,500 | 12 | 1,091 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 53 | 5,134 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 13 | 939 |
The turnover behind the prices
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 203 sales completed in DT5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 329 sales a year before the financial crisis and 199 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.
The rental side of DT5
DT5 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 £230,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
What kind of market DT5 is
DT5 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What people ask about DT5 (Fortuneswell)
Are property prices falling in DT5 (Fortuneswell)?
Is DT5 (Fortuneswell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT5 (Fortuneswell)?
Where do DT5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
DT5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DT5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 136 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the DT5 median sold price.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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.
What another bedroom costs in DT
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DT area. 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%) | — | — |
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
DT5 ranks 3 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.
DT area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DT5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT5 1 | £225,000 | 57 |
| DT5 2 | £245,000 | 37 |
How DT5 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 | £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 (this report) | £230,000 | +7% |
Selling in DT5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DT5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DT5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DT5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT5 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.