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Melplash market report DT6 3, Bridport
The standing DT6 3 (Melplash) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,657 registered sales in DT6 3 (Bridport) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 57 registered 2026 sales put the DT6 3 (Bridport) median at £325,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £331,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,920 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,657 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DT6 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DT6 (Bridport). 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 DT6 3 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 DT6 3
In the DT6 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £325,000, from 57 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £331,800, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DT6 3
By floor space, homes in DT6 3 have sold for about £3,920 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DT6 3 14% above the country at large.
A typical DT6 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 122 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 94 |
| 2023 | £321,600 | £353,360 | 94 |
| 2022 | £299,000 | £350,612 | 149 |
| 2021 | £303,900 | £384,777 | 179 |
| 2020 | £278,000 | £360,711 | 105 |
| 2019 | £250,500 | £328,346 | 134 |
| 2018 | £277,000 | £369,246 | 133 |
| 2017 | £242,000 | £330,064 | 151 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 156 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 133 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 134 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 145 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 115 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 117 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 110 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 158 |
| 2008 | £178,000 | £291,780 | 89 |
| 2007 | £213,200 | £361,647 | 200 |
| 2006 | £188,500 | £327,212 | 189 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 181 |
| 2004 | £191,400 | £347,620 | 183 |
| 2003 | £176,000 | £324,235 | 201 |
| 2002 | £145,500 | £273,757 | 180 |
| 2001 | £106,500 | £204,741 | 160 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 143 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 185 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 191 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 203 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 159 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical DT6 3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 177%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DT6 3 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 2002 (+36.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DT6 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
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.
DT6 3 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 180 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 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.
How DT6 3 trades
This is a thin market: 57 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.
Rents around DT6 3
The local authority for DT6 3 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £325,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
DT6 3 (Melplash): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DT6 3 (Melplash)?
Are property prices falling in DT6 3 (Melplash)?
Is DT6 3 (Melplash) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DT6 3 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.
What is for sale in DT6 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 223 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT6 district, not just DT6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DT6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in DT
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DT area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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 DT6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DT6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT6 4 | £390,000 | 49 |
| DT6 5 | £280,000 | 25 |
| DT6 6 | £465,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full DT6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DT6 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT6 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT6 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT6 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DT6 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DT6 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DT6 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DT6 3 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.
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.