Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham house prices are built from 61 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 8 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £260,000. Across the 15 years from 1999 to 2014 the median moved +83.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +29.1%.
Median price paid
£260,000
Change in cash, 1999–2014
+83.3%
Change in real terms
+29.1%
HM Land Registry61 salesLatest sale 8 May 2026
Section 01
How Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Chalk Pit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levant | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| Redwell | 4 Mar 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| Flora Dene | 24 Jan 2025 | Detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| Glencourt | 15 Sep 2023 | Detached | £580,000 | £626,667 |
| Flora Dene | 18 Nov 2022 | Detached | £430,000 | £498,192 |
| Suvla | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| Violets | 12 Feb 2021 | Detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| Flora Dene | 21 Aug 2020 | Detached | £357,000 | £462,231 |
| 12 | 15 May 2020 | Detached | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| Tiree | 21 Nov 2019 | Detached | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| Corbar | 16 Oct 2019 | Detached | £375,000 | £490,492 |
| The Bungalow | 8 Jul 2019 | Detached | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| Wyllon | 20 May 2019 | Detached | £435,000 | £568,970 |
| Bankside | 4 Apr 2018 | Detached | £305,000 | £406,474 |
| Levant | 22 Feb 2018 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £379,820 |
| Sandkrug | 21 Jul 2017 | Detached | £322,000 | £438,243 |
| Ship T Shore | 25 Nov 2016 | Detached | £285,000 | £397,871 |
| The Bungalow | 25 Jul 2016 | Detached | £230,000 | £321,089 |
| Flora Dene | 11 Nov 2014 | Detached | £307,500 | £441,073 |
| Ship T Shore | 24 Oct 2014 | Detached | £244,648 | £350,919 |
| Levant | 5 Sep 2014 | Semi-detached | £247,500 | £355,010 |
| Tiree | 31 Jul 2014 | Detached | £247,000 | £354,293 |
| Addlestone | 3 Jul 2014 | Detached | £320,000 | £459,003 |
| Step-A-Side | 14 Aug 2013 | Detached | £260,000 | £379,111 |
| Mallards | 12 Jul 2013 | Detached | £375,000 | £546,794 |
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 Chalk Pit 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEVANT Chalk Pit Lane | £225,000 (2006) | £385,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| REDWELL Chalk Pit Lane | £87,500 (1997) | £350,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| FLORA DENE Chalk Pit Lane | £307,500 (2014) | £435,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
| GLENCOURT Chalk Pit Lane | £200,000 (2008) | £580,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.2% |
| SUVLA Chalk Pit Lane | £250,000 (2004) | £280,000 (2021) | +0.7% | -1.6% |
| 12 Chalk Pit Lane | £85,000 (1998) | £250,000 (2020) | +5.0% | +2.8% |
| TIREE Chalk Pit Lane | £247,000 (2014) | £280,000 (2019) | +2.5% | +0.7% |
| THE BUNGALOW Chalk Pit Lane | £230,000 (2016) | £355,000 (2019) | +15.6% | +13.1% |
| BANKSIDE Chalk Pit Lane | £247,500 (2007) | £305,000 (2018) | +1.9% | -0.5% |
| SANDKRUG Chalk Pit Lane | £95,000 (1999) | £322,000 (2017) | +7.0% | +4.6% |
| SHIP T SHORE Chalk Pit Lane | £87,000 (1998) | £285,000 (2016) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| ADDLESTONE Chalk Pit Lane | £114,000 (1998) | £320,000 (2014) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chalk Pit 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 | 57 | 93.4% | £260,000 | £40,500 – £580,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 6.6% | £247,500 | £114,000 – £385,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 61 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 61 | 100.0% | £260,000 |
| New build | 3 | 4.9% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 58 | 95.1% | £280,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.7%. 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 3 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 Chalk Pit 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 £260,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.83% 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 Chalk Pit 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 Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham sits above that national figure — +65.1%.
Within Wareham the street ranks 118 of 292 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £225,000 (+15.6%).
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 £40,500 to £580,000. 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.
Chalk Pit 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
- LEVANT Chalk Pit Lane4 sales
- FLORA DENE Chalk Pit Lane4 sales
- BELMONT Chalk Pit Lane4 sales
- REDWELL Chalk Pit Lane3 sales
- SUVLA Chalk Pit Lane3 sales
- SHIP T SHORE Chalk Pit Lane3 sales
- BRIGHTSIDE Chalk Pit Lane3 sales
- SUMMERFIELD Chalk Pit Lane3 sales
- GLENCOURT Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- 12 Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- TIREE Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- THE BUNGALOW Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- BANKSIDE Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- SANDKRUG Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- ADDLESTONE Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- DONGOLA Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- TUDOR NURSERIES Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
- BRAMWELL Chalk Pit Lane2 sales
Back to Wareham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham?
The median price paid in Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham across every sale on the register is £260,000. 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 Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham?
61 sales are on record for Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham, the most recent completing on 8 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +83.3% between 1999 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +29.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chalk Pit Lane, Wareham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £247,500, set in 2014. 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 Chalk Pit 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 8 May 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, “Chalk Pit 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.