Portland house prices are built from 8,132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +37.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.3%.
Median price paid
£143,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+37.7%
Change in real terms
-1.3%
Median per m²
£1,766
HM Land Registry8,132 sales1,829 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Portland prices moved
The chart tracks the median Portland 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 | £43,500 | £96,591 |
| 2000s | 10 | £136,000 | £247,752 |
| 2010s | 10 | £165,000 | £232,650 |
| 2020s | 7 | £231,250 | £236,277 |
The highest yearly median on record for Portland is £240,000 in 2023; the lowest is £36,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £36,500 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £81,047, so the real change over the whole record is +183.8% — about +3.42% 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: +37.7% in cash against -1.3% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bown Hill | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 192A Wakeham | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 43 Wakeham | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £196,000 | £196,000 |
| 109 Weston Street | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £223,000 | £223,000 |
| 37 Queens Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 11 Sidon Mews | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 57 Greenways | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 5 CARLESS COURT Woolcombe Road | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £126,000 | £126,000 |
| 2 Pauls Mead | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| FLAT 65 ATLANTIC HOUSE, 1 Ayton Drive | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 92 Grove Road | 5 May 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 7 Victoria Place | 5 May 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 46 Pennsylvania Way | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £90,000 |
| FLAT 3 103 Fortuneswell | 24 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £106,000 | £106,000 |
| 14 Page Drive | 20 Apr 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 22 Brymers Avenue | 20 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 2 Castle Road | 20 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £123,900 | £123,900 |
| 3 Manor Place | 17 Apr 2026 | Detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 10 Breston Close | 10 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 1 Artist Row | 8 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £132,000 | £132,000 |
| 92 Avalanche Road | 7 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 11 Pauls Mead | 2 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 2 Clovens Road | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £242,500 | £242,500 |
| 26 Mallams | 2 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 7 CURTIS COURT Martinscroft Road | 2 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £125,000 |
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 Portland values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bown Hill | £129,000 (2002) | £310,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 192A Wakeham | £56,000 (1997) | £245,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 43 Wakeham | £40,000 (1995) | £196,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 109 Weston Street | £99,950 (2003) | £223,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 37 Queens Road | £55,000 (1998) | £325,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 11 Sidon Mews | £365,000 (2014) | £565,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.6% |
| 5 CARLESS COURT Woolcombe Road | £13,440 (2001) | £126,000 (2026) | +9.4% | +6.5% |
| 57 Greenways | £48,950 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 2 Pauls Mead | £153,000 (2014) | £230,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 65 ATLANTIC HOUSE, 1 Ayton Drive | £250,000 (2012) | £145,000 (2026) | -3.8% | -6.5% |
| 7 Victoria Place | £165,500 (2007) | £265,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 92 Grove Road | £79,950 (1999) | £280,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Portland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 5,116 | 62.9% | £143,500 | £12,000 – £525,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1,090 | 13.4% | £157,000 | £11,000 – £690,000 |
| Detached | 990 | 12.2% | £220,000 | £22,000 – £905,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 936 | 11.5% | £97,000 | £7,500 – £390,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Portland
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,505 certificates cover Portland, 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 | 66 m² | about 710 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 100 m² | about 1,076 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 15.5% | 234 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.5% | 68 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Portland
971 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,161 freehold — 11.9% 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 £94,000 and the median freehold sale £151,500 — a gap of +61.2%. 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 | 971 | 11.9% | £94,000 |
| Freehold | 7,161 | 88.1% | £151,500 |
| New build | 557 | 6.8% | £184,950 |
| Existing home | 7,575 | 93.2% | £140,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +32.1%. 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 403 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 09
How Portland compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Portland sits below that national figure — -8.9%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,766 per square metre, across 1,829 of the 8,132 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 £7,500 to £905,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Portland
- Wakeham293 sales
- Fortuneswell292 sales
- Greenways196 sales
- Weston Road196 sales
- Reap Lane168 sales
- High Street163 sales
- Rip Croft163 sales
- Reforne160 sales
- Avalanche Road158 sales
- Weston Street158 sales
- Croft Road152 sales
- Easton Street143 sales
- Grosvenor Road135 sales
- Woolcombe Road133 sales
- Grove Road130 sales
- Chiswell124 sales
- Haylands118 sales
- Channel View Road113 sales
- New Street113 sales
- Rufus Way111 sales
- Furlands102 sales
- Mallams102 sales
- Courtlands Road94 sales
- Easton Square92 sales
- Shepherds Croft92 sales
- Sandholes Close89 sales
- Shortlands80 sales
- Bumpers Lane76 sales
- Verne Common Road72 sales
- Tobys Close71 sales
- Queens Road69 sales
- Ventnor Road69 sales
- King Street68 sales
- Westcliff Road68 sales
- Park Road67 sales
- Sweet Hill Road66 sales
- Wheatlands66 sales
- Blindmere Road64 sales
- Fancys Close64 sales
- Moorfield Road64 sales
- St Georges Estate Road64 sales
- Straits64 sales
- Victoria Road63 sales
- Clements Lane62 sales
- Southwell62 sales
- Ayton Drive61 sales
- Martinscroft Road61 sales
- Alm Place60 sales
- Harbour View Road59 sales
- Montrose Close59 sales
- Clovens Road57 sales
- East Weare Road57 sales
- Pound Piece56 sales
- Victoria Place56 sales
- Blacknor Road55 sales
- Park Estate Road53 sales
- St Georges Road53 sales
- Hambro Road52 sales
- Tillycombe Road52 sales
- Brymers Avenue49 sales
Postcode districts covering Portland
- DT5£143,500 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Portland?
The median price paid in Portland across every sale on the register is £143,500. 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 Portland?
8,132 sales are on record for Portland, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Portland house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Portland house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,000, 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 Portland?
£1,766 per square metre, from the 1,829 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 12 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, “Portland 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.