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Compton Abbas market report SP7 8, Shaftesbury
The SP7 8 (Compton Abbas) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,098 registered sales in SP7 8 (Shaftesbury) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SP7 8 (Shaftesbury) home changed hands for £279,000 in 2026 (median of 71 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £308,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,098 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SP7 8 is a single group of streets within SP7 (Shaftesbury), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SP7 8 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 SP7 8 homes really sell for
71 sales were registered in SP7 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £279,000. The mean works out at £308,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SP7 8 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SP7 8 at roughly £3,450 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SP7 8 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SP7 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £279,000 | £279,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 201 |
| 2024 | £299,000 | £317,898 | 222 |
| 2023 | £296,800 | £326,111 | 224 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 185 |
| 2021 | £272,500 | £345,020 | 225 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 174 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 147 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 263 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 191 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 253 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 256 |
| 2014 | £189,000 | £268,130 | 232 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 169 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 141 |
| 2011 | £175,500 | £264,938 | 166 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 148 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 109 |
| 2008 | £183,500 | £300,795 | 110 |
| 2007 | £183,000 | £310,419 | 179 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 203 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 213 |
| 2004 | £162,500 | £295,132 | 187 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 238 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 215 |
| 2001 | £85,500 | £164,369 | 258 |
| 2000 | £89,000 | £174,663 | 234 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 247 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 165 |
| 1997 | £49,500 | £101,515 | 167 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 173 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical SP7 8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £279,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SP7 8 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 1999 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−8.0%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 71 SP7 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 181 sales a year recently, against 216 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How SP7 8 trades
Against the SP7 district median, SP7 8 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around SP7 8
SP7 8 falls under Dorset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £721 a month here against £1,661 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £279,000 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.
Asked and answered: SP7 8 (Compton Abbas)
Is SP7 8 (Compton Abbas) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SP7 8 (Compton Abbas)?
Are property prices falling in SP7 8 (Compton Abbas)?
Will SP7 8 prices rise from here?
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 19% 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.
SP7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SP7 district, not just SP7 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
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 SP7 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 SP
Real sold prices by size across the SP area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £345,000 | £450,000 (+30%) | £668,750 (+49%) | £982,500 (+47%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £295,000 (+20%) | £344,997 (+17%) | £450,500 (+31%) | £625,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £226,000 | £260,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+25%) | — |
| Flat | £145,000 | £190,000 (+31%) | £330,000 (+74%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SP area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SP7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SP7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP7 0 | £635,000 | 8 |
| SP7 9 | £335,800 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full SP7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SP7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SP7 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SP7 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SP7 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SP7 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SP7 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SP7 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SP7 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SP7 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.