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Melplash market report DT6 6, Bridport
The DT6 6 (Melplash) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,489 registered sales in DT6 6 (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: the typical home in DT6 6 (Bridport) sold for £465,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £488,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,580 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,489 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DT6 6 is one sector of DT6 (Bridport): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DT6 6 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.
Today's DT6 6 prices, from the sold record
In the DT6 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £465,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £488,400, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DT6 6 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DT6 6 costs about £4,580 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DT6 6 sits 63% above the national market.
A typical DT6 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £499,000 | £510,933 | 43 |
| 2024 | £486,200 | £516,930 | 58 |
| 2023 | £484,000 | £531,798 | 42 |
| 2022 | £480,100 | £562,972 | 89 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 87 |
| 2020 | £441,200 | £572,466 | 64 |
| 2019 | £357,500 | £468,597 | 54 |
| 2018 | £334,000 | £445,228 | 62 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 77 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 69 |
| 2015 | £352,500 | £498,083 | 79 |
| 2014 | £316,200 | £448,585 | 82 |
| 2013 | £317,500 | £456,851 | 68 |
| 2012 | £318,000 | £468,056 | 41 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 73 |
| 2010 | £327,000 | £512,820 | 54 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 79 |
| 2008 | £292,000 | £478,650 | 72 |
| 2007 | £263,000 | £446,121 | 83 |
| 2006 | £289,900 | £503,229 | 100 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 83 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 101 |
| 2003 | £216,200 | £398,293 | 82 |
| 2002 | £162,000 | £304,802 | 115 |
| 2001 | £165,500 | £318,165 | 110 |
| 2000 | £127,500 | £250,219 | 103 |
| 1999 | £122,500 | £244,136 | 113 |
| 1998 | £111,800 | £225,676 | 100 |
| 1997 | £95,800 | £196,466 | 126 |
| 1996 | £89,000 | £187,697 | 106 |
| 1995 | £86,000 | £186,951 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical DT6 6 home went from £86,000 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 149%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DT6 6 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 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DT6 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.8% | −9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in DT6 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 51 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 shape of the DT6 6 market
This is a thin market: 23 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 6 sits 35% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around DT6 6
The local authority for DT6 6 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 £465,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 2.7% 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.
What people ask about DT6 6 (Melplash)
How much did a house sell for in DT6 6 (Melplash)?
Are property prices falling in DT6 6 (Melplash)?
Is DT6 6 (Melplash) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DT6 6 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, DT area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 3 | £325,000 | 57 |
| DT6 4 | £390,000 | 49 |
| DT6 5 | £280,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full DT6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DT6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DT6 6? 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 DT6 6'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DT6 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DT6 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DT6 6 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.