Back Lane, Wareham house prices are built from 46 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 1 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £233,000.
Median price paid
£233,000
HM Land Registry46 salesLatest sale 1 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Back Lane, Wareham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Back Lane, Wareham to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 1 Apr 2026 | Detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| 2 | 10 Mar 2025 | Detached | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 52 | 25 Oct 2024 | Detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 6 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £292,500 | £307,780 |
| 13 | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £156,000 | £168,552 |
| 11 | 23 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £181,000 | £234,353 |
| 48 | 13 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £235,000 | £304,270 |
| 42 | 29 May 2020 | Terraced | £229,000 | £296,501 |
| 9 | 2 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £96,000 | £125,566 |
| 52 | 24 May 2019 | Detached | £263,000 | £343,998 |
| 46 | 21 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £313,915 |
| 24 | 20 Jun 2018 | Detached | £308,000 | £410,473 |
| 14 | 9 Feb 2018 | Detached | £315,000 | £419,802 |
| 5 | 25 Jan 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £171,500 | £233,412 |
| 52 | 13 Jul 2016 | Detached | £240,000 | £335,050 |
| 22 | 10 Jun 2016 | Detached | £328,000 | £457,901 |
| 1 | 20 Apr 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £216,386 |
| 16 | 31 Mar 2016 | Detached | £260,000 | £362,970 |
| 40 | 26 Feb 2015 | Terraced | £208,000 | £293,280 |
| 14 | 10 Sep 2014 | Detached | £278,000 | £398,759 |
| 24 | 4 Aug 2014 | Detached | £265,000 | £380,112 |
| 22 | 2 May 2014 | Detached | £302,500 | £433,901 |
| 48 | 28 Feb 2014 | Terraced | £194,000 | £278,271 |
| 40 | 14 Dec 2012 | Terraced | £195,000 | £291,261 |
| 44 | 29 Jun 2012 | Terraced | £200,000 | £298,729 |
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 Back Lane, Wareham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Back Lane | £231,000 (2008) | £380,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 2 Back Lane | £294,000 (2008) | £420,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 52 Back Lane | £230,000 (2011) | £320,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 6 Back Lane | £240,345 (2007) | £292,500 (2024) | +1.2% | -1.8% |
| 13 Back Lane | £78,000 (2008) | £156,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 48 Back Lane | £205,000 (2012) | £235,000 (2020) | +1.7% | -0.1% |
| 42 Back Lane | £199,000 (2011) | £229,000 (2020) | +1.6% | -0.3% |
| 46 Back Lane | £205,000 (2012) | £240,000 (2019) | +2.3% | +0.4% |
| 14 Back Lane | £314,995 (2008) | £315,000 (2018) | +0.0% | -2.3% |
| 5 Back Lane | £145,000 (2008) | £171,500 (2017) | +1.9% | -0.5% |
| 22 Back Lane | £273,500 (2009) | £328,000 (2016) | +2.6% | +0.3% |
| 1 Back Lane | £170,000 (2008) | £155,000 (2016) | -1.1% | -3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Back Lane, Wareham 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 | 20 | 43.5% | £273,500 | £230,000 – £420,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 30.4% | £199,000 | £96,000 – £235,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 13.0% | £240,000 | £205,000 – £292,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 13.0% | £145,000 | £78,000 – £171,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Back Lane, Wareham
7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 39 freehold — 15.2% 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 £145,000 and the median freehold sale £240,345 — a gap of +65.8%. 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 | 7 | 15.2% | £145,000 |
| Freehold | 39 | 84.8% | £240,345 |
| New build | 21 | 45.7% | £210,995 |
| Existing home | 25 | 54.3% | £240,345 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -12.2%. 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 1 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 Back Lane, Wareham
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 £233,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.39% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Back Lane, Wareham
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Purbeck School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,022 |
| Sandford St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 342 |
| Stoborough Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 195 |
| Bovington Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 180 |
| Wareham St Mary Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 165 |
| Bere Regis Primary and Preschool | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 119 |
| Wool Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 116 |
| Lulworth and Winfrith CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 95 |
| Corfe Castle Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 87 |
| St Mary & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 81 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wareham Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Wool Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
| Holton Heath Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| Norden – Park and Ride (Swanage Railway) | Tram | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Back Lane, Wareham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Back Lane, Wareham sits above that national figure — +47.9%.
Within Wareham the street ranks 149 of 292 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £225,000 (+3.6%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £78,000 to £420,000. 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.
Back Lane, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- West Street£232,500 median
- Northmoor Way£210,000 median
- North Street£177,500 median
- Andover Green£155,000 median
- East Street£302,500 median
- Mill Lane£128,000 median
- Northport Drive£175,000 median
- Stoborough Meadow£187,500 median
- Elder Road£158,500 median
- Victoria Close£113,500 median
- Cologne Road£175,000 median
- New Road£167,000 median
- Corfe Road£222,126 median
- Main Road£258,250 median
- Dorchester Road£235,000 median
- Higher Wood£157,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 24 Back Lane4 sales
- 52 Back Lane4 sales
- 48 Back Lane3 sales
- 14 Back Lane3 sales
- 22 Back Lane3 sales
- 40 Back Lane3 sales
- 2 Back Lane2 sales
- 6 Back Lane2 sales
- 13 Back Lane2 sales
- 42 Back Lane2 sales
- 46 Back Lane2 sales
- 5 Back Lane2 sales
- 1 Back Lane2 sales
- 16 Back Lane2 sales
Back to Wareham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Back Lane, Wareham?
The median price paid in Back Lane, Wareham across every sale on the register is £233,000. 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 Back Lane, Wareham?
46 sales are on record for Back Lane, Wareham, the most recent completing on 1 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Back Lane, Wareham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,498, set in 2008. 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 Back Lane, Wareham?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 1 Apr 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, “Back Lane, 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.