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Melplash market report DT6 5, Bridport
The standing DT6 5 (Melplash) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,411 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DT6 5 (Bridport) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DT6 5 (Bridport) home changed hands for £280,000 in 2026 (median of 25 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £371,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,690 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,411 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DT6 5 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 5 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 DT6 5 sells for
Across 25 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DT6 5 home went for £280,000. The mean is £371,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
DT6 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of DT6 5 home has cost about £3,690 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DT6 5 2% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DT6 5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £307,500 | £314,853 | 98 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 69 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 73 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 80 |
| 2021 | £346,200 | £438,334 | 108 |
| 2020 | £234,800 | £304,658 | 92 |
| 2019 | £236,500 | £309,995 | 80 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 86 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 107 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 114 |
| 2015 | £187,000 | £264,231 | 117 |
| 2014 | £196,000 | £278,060 | 109 |
| 2013 | £186,000 | £267,635 | 93 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 63 |
| 2011 | £176,500 | £266,447 | 84 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 105 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 93 |
| 2008 | £169,000 | £277,027 | 55 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 127 |
| 2006 | £189,500 | £328,948 | 144 |
| 2005 | £173,000 | £307,870 | 117 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 185 |
| 2003 | £165,800 | £305,444 | 132 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 149 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 159 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 165 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 130 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 113 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 161 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 108 |
| 1995 | £50,200 | £109,127 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical DT6 5 home went from £50,200 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 157%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DT6 5 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 2021 (+47.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−17.7%). 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) | −8.9% | −11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.2% | −8.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in DT6 5
How many homes change hands
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 5 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 147 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Reading the DT6 5 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DT6 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within DT6, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around DT6 5
The local authority for DT6 5 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.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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 people ask about DT6 5 (Melplash)
Are property prices falling in DT6 5 (Melplash)?
Is DT6 5 (Melplash) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT6 5 (Melplash)?
Where do DT6 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in DT6 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 223 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DT6 district, not just DT6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% 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.
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in DT: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DT area, straight 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.
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 4 | £390,000 | 49 |
| 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.
Before you sell in DT6 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DT6 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DT6 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DT6 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DT6 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DT6 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DT6 5 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.