Wareham house prices

Wareham house prices are built from 9,067 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £225,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +28.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.7%.

HM Land Registry9,067 sales957 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wareham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Wareham is £385,000 in 2023; the lowest is £70,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £70,500 to £380,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £156,543, so the real change over the whole record is +142.7% — about +2.90% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +28.8% in cash against -7.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Wareham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wareham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,168 certificates cover Wareham, and their median floor area is 86 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +13.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

914 of the sales on record are leasehold and 8,153 freehold — 10.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £130,000 and the median freehold sale £240,000 — a gap of +84.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 426 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dorset, 43.1% of 188,938 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dorset at £1,046 a month as of Jun 2026 — £724 for a one-bedroom home and £1,178 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £225,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.58% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BH20, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.

Against the 379,579 residents the 2021 census counted in Dorset, that is 0.00 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 379,579 residents in Dorset across 169,261 households. 71.4% of those households own their home and 28.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a BH20 postcode: 9 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wareham sits above that national figure — +42.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,759 per square metre, across 957 of the 9,067 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £5,700 to £3,250,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Wareham sits in Dorset, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dorset at 9.9 times median local earnings of £35,311 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Wareham

• West Street316 sales
• Northmoor Way235 sales
• North Street218 sales
• Andover Green200 sales
• East Street191 sales
• Mill Lane127 sales
• Northport Drive122 sales
• Stoborough Meadow116 sales
• Elder Road110 sales
• Victoria Close97 sales
• Cologne Road95 sales
• Corfe Road94 sales
• New Road94 sales
• Main Road88 sales
• Dorchester Road83 sales
• Higher Wood81 sales
• Pound Lane76 sales
• Wessex Oval75 sales
• The Briars73 sales
• Forest Edge Road72 sales
• Miles Avenue71 sales
• Barnhill Road70 sales
• Filleul Road67 sales
• Lower Hillside Road67 sales
• Sandford Road64 sales
• Chalk Pit Lane61 sales
• St Martins Lane61 sales
• Bestwall Road59 sales
• Cranesmoor Close59 sales
• Old Barn Road57 sales
• Shaw Drive57 sales
• Trent Drive57 sales
• East Burton Road55 sales
• Colliers Lane54 sales
• Stanbarrow Close53 sales
• Worgret Road52 sales
• Tarrant Drive51 sales
• Folly Lane50 sales
• Hillside Road50 sales
• Gore Hill49 sales
• Valley Road48 sales
• Westerman Way48 sales
• Lampton Close47 sales
• Woodlands Drive47 sales
• Back Lane46 sales
• Willow Way45 sales
• Baileys Drove44 sales
• Spring Street44 sales
• Ropers Lane43 sales
• Sandford Lane43 sales
• South Street43 sales
• Cow Lane42 sales
• Keysworth Drive42 sales
• Rowan Close42 sales
• Station Road42 sales
• Stour Drive42 sales
• Stowell Crescent42 sales
• Carey Road41 sales
• St Helens Road41 sales
• Jeremy Close39 sales

Postcode districts covering Wareham

• BH20£225,000 median

What is the average house price in Wareham?

The median price paid in Wareham across every sale on the register is £225,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Wareham?

9,067 sales are on record for Wareham, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wareham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +28.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wareham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £385,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Wareham?

£2,759 per square metre, from the 957 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Wareham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.