Bridport house prices are built from 15,341 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £197,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +33.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.5%.
Median price paid
£197,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+33.4%
Change in real terms
-4.5%
Median per m²
£2,432
HM Land Registry15,341 sales2,226 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Bridport prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bridport 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £75,000 | £166,535 |
| 2000s | 10 | £200,000 | £364,341 |
| 2010s | 10 | £245,000 | £345,450 |
| 2020s | 7 | £370,000 | £378,043 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bridport is £391,450 in 2023; the lowest is £63,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £63,000 to £360,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £139,890, so the real change over the whole record is +157.3% — about +3.10% 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: +33.4% in cash against -4.5% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Howard Close | 22 Jun 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 10 St Katherines Drive | 22 Jun 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| Ashleigh Cottage | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 1 BOWDOWNS St James Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 1 May Cottages | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 52 Slades Green | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £366,900 | £366,900 |
| 2 GROVE VIEW West Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £262,500 | £262,500 |
| FLAT 20 WYKES GATE Downes Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £65,000 |
| 8A Jessopp Avenue | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £497,000 | £497,000 |
| Pelham | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 7 MANOR BARN Main Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 15 Manor Fields | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £354,500 | £354,500 |
| 11 Park Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 37C North Allington | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| West Cottage | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 28 Blind Lane Close | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £492,000 | £492,000 |
| 12 Stuart Way | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 11 Pymore Terrace | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 14 Gore Cross Way | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 5 Esplanade | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| Wild Wood | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £745,000 | £745,000 |
| 22 East Street | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £348,000 | £348,000 |
| 36 Slades Green | 15 May 2026 | Detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 215 St Andrews Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £466,485 | £466,485 |
| 40 Claremont Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Bridport values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 St Katherines Drive | £84,000 (1997) | £325,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 18 Howard Close | £88,000 (1999) | £395,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| FLAT 20 WYKES GATE Downes Street | £24,000 (1999) | £65,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 2 GROVE VIEW West Road | £78,500 (2000) | £262,500 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 52 Slades Green | £197,000 (2005) | £366,900 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 1 May Cottages | £40,000 (1997) | £375,000 (2026) | +8.0% | +5.3% |
| 11 Park Road | £173,000 (2011) | £300,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| 15 Manor Fields | £212,000 (2006) | £354,500 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 8A Jessopp Avenue | £355,000 (2018) | £497,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +0.6% |
| 7 MANOR BARN Main Street | £88,400 (1998) | £390,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 37C North Allington | £110,000 (2013) | £145,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 14 Gore Cross Way | £157,500 (2008) | £235,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bridport is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 6,295 | 41.0% | £285,000 | £16,500 – £3,150,000 |
| Terraced | 3,896 | 25.4% | £166,000 | £12,000 – £895,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,763 | 18.0% | £195,000 | £18,000 – £1,362,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2,387 | 15.6% | £134,950 | £10,000 – £830,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Bridport
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,059 certificates cover Bridport, and their median floor area is 81 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +6.6%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 81 m² | about 872 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 60 m² | about 646 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 116 m² | about 1,249 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 24.4% | 745 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 13.6% | 415 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bridport
2,502 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,839 freehold — 16.3% 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 £132,500 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +66.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2,502 | 16.3% | £132,500 |
| Freehold | 12,839 | 83.7% | £220,000 |
| New build | 1,239 | 8.1% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 14,102 | 91.9% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -25.0%. 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 560 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.
Section 07
Living in Bridport
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,111 | 0.6% |
| B | 22,229 | 11.8% |
| C | 58,170 | 30.8% |
| D | 66,245 | 35.1% |
| E | 28,834 | 15.3% |
| F | 9,430 | 5.0% |
| G | 2,919 | 1.5% |
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 £197,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.37% 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 DT6, 40 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 12 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 19 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.2 times quieter.
Against the 379,579 residents the 2021 census counted in Dorset, that is 0.11 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Bridport
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.
11 state and independent schools have a DT6 postcode: 10 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sir John Colfox Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 756 |
| Bridport Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 267 |
| Bridport, St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 194 |
| Salway Ash Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 109 |
| Symondsbury Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 107 |
| St Catherine's Roman Catholic School | Primary | Academy converter | 100 |
| Burton Bradstock Church of England Voluntary Controlled School | Primary | Academy converter | 99 |
| Loders CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 72 |
| Charmouth Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 71 |
| Marshwood CofE Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 43 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Crewkerne Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Maiden Newton Rail Station | Rail | 15.2 km |
| Axminster Rail Station | Rail | 16.7 km |
| Colyford Station (Seaton Tramway) | Metro or underground | 19.9 km |
Section 09
How Bridport compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bridport sits above that national figure — +25.1%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,432 per square metre, across 2,226 of the 15,341 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 £10,000 to £3,150,000. 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.
Bridport 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Bridport
- St Andrews Road425 sales
- East Street302 sales
- North Allington302 sales
- South Street284 sales
- The Street268 sales
- West Allington234 sales
- West Bay Road207 sales
- Victoria Grove202 sales
- Crock Lane196 sales
- Gundry Road153 sales
- Barrack Street145 sales
- Happy Island Way143 sales
- Higher Sea Lane140 sales
- Howard Road132 sales
- Jessopp Avenue123 sales
- Meadow Court121 sales
- Salway Drive121 sales
- St Swithins Road121 sales
- Alexandra Court116 sales
- East Road116 sales
- Foxglove Way111 sales
- Mead Fields108 sales
- Bramble Drive92 sales
- West Road92 sales
- Fishweir Fields86 sales
- Valley Road86 sales
- Buttercup Way85 sales
- Alexandra Road84 sales
- Blind Lane Close84 sales
- Lower Sea Lane83 sales
- Rax Lane83 sales
- Pasture Way81 sales
- Pine View81 sales
- Norman Close79 sales
- Barrowfield Close76 sales
- Slades Green76 sales
- Quayside75 sales
- Main Street74 sales
- Wellfields Drive72 sales
- West Walk72 sales
- Hemlets Close71 sales
- Hammonds Mead70 sales
- Maple Gardens67 sales
- West Mead67 sales
- Coneygar Close66 sales
- St James Park66 sales
- Station Road64 sales
- Stuart Way63 sales
- Claremont Road59 sales
- Park Road59 sales
- West Court59 sales
- Fernhill Heights58 sales
- Magdalen Lane58 sales
- West Street58 sales
- Downes Street57 sales
- Manor Fields57 sales
- Watton Park57 sales
- Court Close55 sales
- Brit View Road54 sales
- Brook Street54 sales
Postcode districts covering Bridport
- DT6£197,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bridport?
The median price paid in Bridport across every sale on the register is £197,000. 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 Bridport?
15,341 sales are on record for Bridport, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bridport house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bridport house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £391,450, 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 Bridport?
£2,432 per square metre, from the 2,226 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 22 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, “Bridport 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.