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Melplash market report DT6 4, Bridport
The DT6 4 (Melplash) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,817 HM Land Registry entries for DT6 4 (Bridport), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 49 registered 2026 sales put the DT6 4 (Bridport) median at £390,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £386,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,560 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,817 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DT6 4 is a single group of streets within DT6 (Bridport), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DT6 4 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 DT6 4
In the DT6 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £390,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £386,800, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
DT6 4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, DT6 4 homes have averaged around £4,560 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DT6 4 sits 37% above the national market.
The price of a typical DT6 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £462,500 | £473,560 | 104 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 120 |
| 2023 | £470,000 | £516,415 | 105 |
| 2022 | £472,200 | £553,708 | 112 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 155 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 113 |
| 2019 | £337,500 | £442,382 | 127 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 135 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 143 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 142 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 167 |
| 2014 | £282,500 | £400,776 | 150 |
| 2013 | £258,500 | £371,956 | 130 |
| 2012 | £268,000 | £394,463 | 114 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 128 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 127 |
| 2009 | £241,200 | £387,731 | 141 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 101 |
| 2007 | £282,000 | £478,351 | 219 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 223 |
| 2005 | £236,500 | £420,875 | 157 |
| 2004 | £228,800 | £415,546 | 192 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 182 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 202 |
| 2001 | £132,000 | £253,763 | 181 |
| 2000 | £117,000 | £229,613 | 209 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 249 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 167 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 189 |
| 1996 | £74,100 | £156,274 | 158 |
| 1995 | £69,500 | £151,082 | 126 |
In cash terms the typical DT6 4 home went from £69,500 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT6 4 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.7% | −17.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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, 49 sales completed in DT6 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 196 sales a year before the financial crisis and 98 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 4 trades
This is a thin market: 49 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. Against the DT6 district median, DT6 4 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around DT6 4
The local authority for DT6 4 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £721 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,661 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £390,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
DT6 4 (Melplash): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DT6 4 (Melplash)?
Are property prices falling in DT6 4 (Melplash)?
Is DT6 4 (Melplash) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DT6 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
What is for sale in DT6 right now
The live side of the market holds 223 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT6 district, not just DT6 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in DT
Real sold prices by size across the DT area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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
The spread across the DT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DT area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DT6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DT6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT6 3 | £325,000 | 57 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in DT6 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DT6 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the DT6 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DT6 4 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 DT6 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DT6 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DT6 4 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.