Higher Wood, Wareham house prices are built from 81 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 14 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,000. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved +31.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.4%.
Median price paid
£157,000
Change in cash, 2007–2018
+31.0%
Change in real terms
+0.4%
HM Land Registry81 salesLatest sale 14 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Higher Wood, Wareham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Higher Wood, Wareham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2018. 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 | 1 | £38,900 | £86,376 |
| 2000s | 3 | £123,250 | £224,525 |
| 2010s | 1 | £220,000 | £310,200 |
The highest yearly median on record for Higher Wood, Wareham is £220,000 in 2018; the lowest is £38,900 in 1995. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £38,900 to £220,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,376, so the real change over the whole record is +239.4% — about +5.46% 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: +31.0% in cash against +0.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 14 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 31 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| 24 | 6 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £207,000 | £217,813 |
| 44 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 34 | 23 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 3 | 31 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £250,500 | £270,655 |
| 7 | 15 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 4 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 56 | 29 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £276,500 | £320,349 |
| 20 | 4 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £299,950 | £378,969 |
| 55 | 4 May 2021 | Terraced | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 59 | 10 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £219,000 | £276,694 |
| 32 | 29 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| 1 | 11 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 53 | 31 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £311,299 |
| 23 | 12 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 59 | 23 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £228,000 | £298,219 |
| 62 | 27 Feb 2019 | Terraced | £235,000 | £307,375 |
| 53 | 19 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £253,214 |
| 56 | 30 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £232,500 | £309,853 |
| 30 | 26 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 44 | 3 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £220,000 | £293,195 |
| 55 | 16 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £240,000 | £319,849 |
| 63 | 13 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £200,000 | £266,541 |
| 21 | 27 Apr 2018 | Semi-detached | £188,000 | £250,548 |
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 Higher Wood, Wareham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Higher Wood | £37,800 (1995) | £290,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 24 Higher Wood | £82,500 (2001) | £207,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 44 Higher Wood | £220,000 (2018) | £270,000 (2024) | +3.5% | -0.5% |
| 34 Higher Wood | £34,650 (1995) | £220,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 3 Higher Wood | £86,500 (2001) | £250,500 (2023) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| 4 Higher Wood | £30,100 (1995) | £250,000 (2022) | +8.2% | +5.6% |
| 56 Higher Wood | £148,000 (2012) | £276,500 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 20 Higher Wood | £199,000 (2005) | £299,950 (2021) | +2.6% | +0.3% |
| 55 Higher Wood | £114,950 (2002) | £255,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 59 Higher Wood | £228,000 (2019) | £219,000 (2021) | -2.0% | -3.7% |
| 1 Higher Wood | £105,000 (2003) | £190,000 (2020) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| 53 Higher Wood | £147,000 (2003) | £238,000 (2019) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Higher Wood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 66 | 81.5% | £160,000 | £30,100 – £299,950 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 18.5% | £147,000 | £34,650 – £238,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Higher Wood, Wareham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 81 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 | 81 | 100.0% | £157,000 |
Section 07
Living in Higher Wood, 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 £157,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.99% 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 Higher Wood, 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 Higher Wood, Wareham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Higher Wood, Wareham sits below that national figure — -0.3%.
Within Wareham the street ranks 261 of 292 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £225,000 (-30.2%).
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 £30,100 to £299,950. 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.
Higher Wood, 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
- Pound Lane£215,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 4 Higher Wood5 sales
- 20 Higher Wood4 sales
- 55 Higher Wood4 sales
- 1 Higher Wood4 sales
- 31 Higher Wood3 sales
- 3 Higher Wood3 sales
- 56 Higher Wood3 sales
- 53 Higher Wood3 sales
- 23 Higher Wood3 sales
- 17 Higher Wood3 sales
- 52 Higher Wood3 sales
- 2 Higher Wood3 sales
- 24 Higher Wood2 sales
- 44 Higher Wood2 sales
- 34 Higher Wood2 sales
- 59 Higher Wood2 sales
- 30 Higher Wood2 sales
- 63 Higher Wood2 sales
- 21 Higher Wood2 sales
- 65 Higher Wood2 sales
- 25 Higher Wood2 sales
- 51 Higher Wood2 sales
- 57 Higher Wood2 sales
- 49 Higher Wood2 sales
Back to Wareham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Higher Wood, Wareham?
The median price paid in Higher Wood, Wareham across every sale on the register is £157,000. 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 Higher Wood, Wareham?
81 sales are on record for Higher Wood, Wareham, the most recent completing on 14 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Higher Wood, Wareham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +31.0% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Higher Wood, Wareham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, set in 2018. 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 Higher Wood, 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 14 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, “Higher Wood, 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.