The Grove, Dorchester house prices

The Grove, Dorchester house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 Feb 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £128,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +22.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.3%.

HM Land Registry178 sales45 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Feb 2025

The chart tracks the median The Grove, Dorchester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 The Grove, Dorchester is £167,500 in 2024; the lowest is £45,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £167,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +76.4% — about +1.98% 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: +22.3% in cash against -10.3% 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 The Grove, Dorchester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

175 of the sales on record are leasehold and 3 freehold — 98.3% 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 £128,000 and the median freehold sale £270,000 — a gap of +110.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 11 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 £128,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.77% 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 DT1, 122 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 45 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 27 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.

Against the 379,579 residents the 2021 census counted in Dorset, that is 0.32 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.

7 state and independent schools have a DT1 postcode: 4 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 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. The Grove, Dorchester sits below that national figure — -18.4%.

Within Dorchester the street ranks 712 of 759 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £215,000 (-40.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,321 per square metre, across 45 of the 178 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 £36,000 to £498,000. 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.

The Grove, Dorchester 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 nearby

• South Walks Road£151,000 median
• Somerleigh Road£217,250 median
• Monmouth Road£207,500 median
• Bridport Road£200,000 median
• High West Street£81,000 median
• Alfred Road£114,000 median
• London Road£107,750 median
• Cambridge Road£130,000 median
• Middlemarsh Street£140,000 median
• Damers Road£193,000 median
• Weatherbury Way£260,000 median
• Icen Way£172,000 median
• Culliford Road North£199,950 median
• High East Street£140,500 median
• Peverell Avenue East£270,000 median
• Celtic Crescent£195,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 45, GROVE COURT the Grove8 sales
• FLAT 9, HENCHARD COURT the Grove7 sales
• FLAT 22, GROVE COURT the Grove6 sales
• FLAT 5, HENCHARD COURT the Grove5 sales
• FLAT 58, GROVE COURT the Grove5 sales
• FLAT 12, GROVE COURT the Grove5 sales
• FLAT 6, HENCHARD COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 37, GROVE COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 11, HENCHARD COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 24, GROVE COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 11, GROVE COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 21, GROVE COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 4, GROVE COURT the Grove4 sales
• FLAT 52, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 53, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 13, HENCHARD COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 57, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• NORTHERNHAY HOUSE the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 13, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 64, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 15, GROVE COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 3, HENCHARD COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 10, HENCHARD COURT the Grove3 sales
• FLAT 8, HENCHARD COURT the Grove3 sales

Back to Dorchester house prices.

What is the average house price in The Grove, Dorchester?

The median price paid in The Grove, Dorchester across every sale on the register is £128,500. 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 The Grove, Dorchester?

178 sales are on record for The Grove, Dorchester, the most recent completing on 21 Feb 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Grove, Dorchester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +22.3% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Grove, Dorchester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £167,500, set in 2024. 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 The Grove, Dorchester?

£2,321 per square metre, from the 45 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 21 Feb 2025. 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, “The Grove, Dorchester 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.