UK Property Check

UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/dorset

Council areaSouth West, England

House prices in Dorset

Homes in Dorset sold for a median of £345,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 11,776 standard sales.

That makes it the fifth most expensive of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £310,000.

Median sale price£345,00011,776 standard sales
Middle half of prices£250,000 to £465,000
Change since 2016+29%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 29%, from £268,000 in 2016 to £345,000 in 2025, the second smallest rise of the 26 council areas in the South West.

Postcode districts in Dorset

The dearest district was DT7 (Lyme Regis), at £479,500, and the cheapest was DT5 (Portland), at £233,000. The dearest median is 2.1 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were BH21 (Wimborne) and BH22 (Ferndown), and the next cheapest DT4 (Weymouth) and SP8 (Gillingham).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Dorset, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.

Post towns in Dorset, by number of sales: Weymouth (DT3, DT4), Dorchester (DT1, DT2), Wimborne (BH21), Ferndown (BH22), Blandford Forum (DT11), Bridport (DT6), Sherborne (DT9), Gillingham (SP8), and 9 more.

Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. DT7Lyme Regis, 149 sales£479,500Too fewToo few
  2. BH21Wimborne, 1,177 sales£416,000£4,219−1%
  3. BH22Ferndown, 1,029 sales£400,000£3,920+3%
  4. BH31Verwood, 409 sales£395,000Too few−1%
  5. BH19Swanage, 407 sales£380,000£4,000−8%
  6. BH20Wareham, 453 sales£370,000£4,167−1%
  7. DT6Bridport, 661 sales£365,000£3,191−4%
  8. DT2Dorchester, 713 sales£364,000£3,527−1%
  9. DT11Blandford Forum, 818 sales£350,000£3,868+4%
  10. DT3Weymouth, 851 sales£347,000£3,571+1%
  11. DT8Beaminster, 192 sales£338,500Too fewToo few
  12. DT10Sturminster Newton, 366 sales£335,000Too few−1%
  13. DT9Sherborne, 646 sales£327,000£3,503+5%
  14. BH16Poole, 425 sales£325,000£3,806+5%
  15. DT1Dorchester, 780 sales£320,000£3,715+2%
  16. SP7Shaftesbury, 501 sales£308,500Too few−16%
  17. SP8Gillingham, 581 sales£280,000£3,293+6%
  18. DT4Weymouth, 1,238 sales£257,500£3,276−6%
  19. DT5Portland, 426 sales£233,000Too few+2%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in SP8 (Gillingham), up 6%, and fell most in SP7 (Shaftesbury), down 16%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Ringwood Road, Ferndown (BH22)46 sales
  • Dorchester Road, Weymouth (DT4)44 sales
  • Dorchester Road, Weymouth (DT3)43 sales
  • Chickerell Road, Weymouth (DT4)40 sales
  • Markham Avenue, Weymouth (DT4)30 sales
  • St Andrews Road, Bridport (DT6)30 sales
  • Foxglove Crescent, Shaftesbury (SP7)27 sales
  • High Street, Swanage (BH19)26 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Chine Walk, West Parley (BH22, detached houses, £934,000), Peninsula Way, Poundbury (DT1, detached houses, £887,500) and Saxondale Gardens, Wimborne (BH21, detached houses, £647,500).

The cheapest were White Cliff Mill Street, Blandford Forum (DT11, flats, £68,000), Ringwood Road, Ferndown (BH22, flats, £111,000) and Newbury, Gillingham (SP8, flats, £112,000).

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Dorset, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached4,661£475,000£395,000 to £620,000£4,023/m²from 200 sales
Semi-detached2,455£330,000£278,000 to £390,000£3,838/m²from 90 sales
Terraced2,911£273,000£228,000 to £329,000£3,421/m²from 105 sales
Flats and maisonettes1,749£183,000£136,000 to £240,000£2,958/m²from 57 sales

Detached houses were the most common type sold in Dorset, at 40% of sales, ahead of terraced houses at 25%.

Living in Dorset

Crime

41 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Lower than 98 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

78% of homes can get it

Lower than 87 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

60% of postcodes are in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Near the middle of all council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,765 a year in Dorset for 2026 to 2027

Higher than 99 in 100 council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in the South West

Median sale price of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Dorset and the 14 council areas nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. Cotswold£450,000
  2. Bath and North East Somerset£395,000
  3. South Hams£360,000
  4. Bristol£350,000
  5. Dorset£345,000
  6. South Gloucestershire£340,000
  7. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole£338,000
  8. Stroud£335,000
  9. East Devon£330,000
  10. Cheltenham£328,000
  11. Tewkesbury£325,000
  12. North Somerset£320,000
  13. Wiltshire£320,000
  14. Exeter£300,000
  15. Teignbridge£300,000
All 26 council areas in the South West, ranked

About these figures

Dorset's figures come from 11,776 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode (how we build council pages). New builds made up 5% of them.

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.