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Melplash market report DT6, Bridport
The standing DT6 (Melplash) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 15,374 HM Land Registry entries for DT6 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical DT6 (Bridport) home changed hands for £345,000 in 2026 (median of 154 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £379,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 15,374 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DT6 is a postcode district covering Bridport, Melplash, Whitchurch Canonicorum in Bridport. 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 DT6 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 sells for
Across 154 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DT6 home went for £345,000. The mean is £379,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DT6
Per square metre, DT6 homes have averaged around £4,170 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 sits 21% above the national market.
DT6's median sold price, 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 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 154 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 367 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 341 |
| 2023 | £391,400 | £430,053 | 314 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 430 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 529 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 374 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 395 |
| 2018 | £291,500 | £388,575 | 416 |
| 2017 | £285,200 | £388,984 | 478 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 481 |
| 2015 | £268,800 | £379,814 | 496 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 475 |
| 2013 | £234,100 | £336,847 | 436 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 333 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 402 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 396 |
| 2009 | £206,000 | £331,147 | 471 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 317 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 629 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 656 |
| 2005 | £207,500 | £369,266 | 538 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 661 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 597 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 646 |
| 2001 | £120,500 | £231,655 | 610 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 620 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 677 |
| 1998 | £76,500 | £154,421 | 571 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 679 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 531 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 354 |
In cash terms the typical DT6 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% 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 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 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £480,000 against £170,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, DT6
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 | £480,000 | 61 | 6,305 |
| Semi-detached | £360,000 | 23 | 2,770 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 44 | 3,906 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 26 | 2,393 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.8% | −8.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 311 sales completed in DT6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 620 sales a year before the financial crisis and 321 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 market
DT6 sits 2 of 11 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of DT6
The local authority for DT6 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 £345,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,041 a month (£12,492 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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 (Melplash)
Are property prices falling in DT6 (Melplash)?
Is DT6 (Melplash) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DT6 (Melplash)?
Where do DT6 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in DT6 now
Everything above is what homes in DT6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 223 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% above the DT6 median sold price.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DT prices by size
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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DT6 ranks 7 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.
Five-year change in the median, DT area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DT6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DT6 3 | £325,000 | 57 |
| DT6 4 | £390,000 | 49 |
| DT6 5 | £280,000 | 25 |
| DT6 6 | £465,000 | 23 |
How DT6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DT area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DT7 | £420,000 | +2% |
| DT6 (this report) | £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 | £230,000 | +7% |
Selling a home in DT6? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DT6'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DT6.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DT6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DT6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.