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Compton Abbas market report SP7, Shaftesbury
The SP7 (Compton Abbas) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,233 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SP7 (Shaftesbury) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SP7 (Shaftesbury) home changed hands for £320,000 in 2026 (median of 93 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £341,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,233 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SP7 is the postcode district covering Shaftesbury, Compton Abbas, Fontmell Magna in Shaftesbury. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SP7 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 buyers actually paid in SP7
Take the 93 registered 2026 sales in SP7 and the middle price, the median, is £320,000. The mean lands at £341,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SP7
The last five years of sales put SP7 at roughly £3,660 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SP7 runs 12% above it.
A typical SP7 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 282 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 307 |
| 2023 | £363,000 | £398,848 | 321 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 291 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 338 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 267 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 213 |
| 2018 | £246,200 | £328,189 | 356 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 271 |
| 2016 | £229,200 | £320,653 | 354 |
| 2015 | £218,000 | £308,034 | 357 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 355 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 235 |
| 2012 | £197,500 | £290,695 | 195 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 217 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 233 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 182 |
| 2008 | £227,000 | £372,101 | 180 |
| 2007 | £237,500 | £402,866 | 337 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 313 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 313 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 265 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 330 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 339 |
| 2001 | £111,200 | £213,776 | 390 |
| 2000 | £108,000 | £211,950 | 357 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 403 |
| 1998 | £79,800 | £161,082 | 295 |
| 1997 | £71,800 | £147,247 | 322 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 303 |
| 1995 | £61,500 | £133,692 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical SP7 home went from £61,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SP7 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 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−15.7%). 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, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £397,500 against £173,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, SP7
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 | £397,500 | 40 | 3,701 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 17 | 2,004 |
| Terraced | £225,000 | 27 | 2,600 |
| Flats | £173,000 | 9 | 928 |
What SP7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.5% | +5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SP7 recorded 212 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 331 sales a year before the financial crisis and 259 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of SP7
The local authority for SP7 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.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market SP7 is
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.
What people ask about SP7 (Compton Abbas)
Are property prices falling in SP7 (Compton Abbas)?
Is SP7 (Compton Abbas) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SP7 (Compton Abbas)?
Will SP7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 you could buy in SP7 now
Everything above is what homes in SP7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 67% above the SP7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 14% 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SP7 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.
What another bedroom costs in SP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SP area, 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
SP7 ranks 9 of 11 in the SP 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.
Winners and losers across the SP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SP7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP7 0 | £635,000 | 8 |
| SP7 8 | £279,000 | 71 |
| SP7 9 | £335,800 | 14 |
How SP7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SP5 | £473,500 | +5% |
| SP3 | £467,500 | +10% |
| SP6 | £382,500 | -2% |
| SP11 | £360,000 | +20% |
| SP4 | £332,500 | +11% |
| SP7 (this report) | £320,000 | +2% |
| SP1 | £312,500 | +1% |
| SP2 | £310,000 | +16% |
| SP9 | £310,000 | +42% |
| SP10 | £286,000 | +6% |
| SP8 | £278,000 | +4% |
Selling in SP7? 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 SP7'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 SP7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SP7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SP7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.