Ropers Lane, Wareham house prices are built from 43 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2026 and the most recent on 4 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £216,000.
Median price paid
£216,000
Median per m²
£2,696
HM Land Registry43 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 4 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Ropers Lane, Wareham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Ropers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 4 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 14 | 22 May 2023 | Terraced | £383,500 | £414,356 |
| 35 | 3 Mar 2021 | Detached | £425,000 | £536,962 |
| 16 | 27 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £277,500 | £369,825 |
| Cheriton Cottage, 33 | 12 Jan 2018 | Detached | £450,000 | £599,716 |
| 55 | 24 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £267,500 | £364,069 |
| Pawprint Cottage, 4 | 31 Jan 2017 | Semi-detached | £376,000 | £511,737 |
| 18 | 7 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £275,000 | £383,911 |
| 15 | 25 Dec 2015 | Detached | £527,500 | £743,775 |
| 11a | 15 Jul 2015 | Detached | £238,000 | £335,580 |
| 20 | 5 Jun 2015 | Terraced | £290,000 | £408,900 |
| 18 | 10 Dec 2014 | Terraced | £250,000 | £358,596 |
| 17 | 16 Sep 2014 | Detached | £275,000 | £394,456 |
| 14 | 3 Aug 2012 | Terraced | £248,000 | £370,424 |
| 51 | 25 Mar 2011 | Terraced | £215,000 | £329,511 |
| 51 | 1 Jun 2010 | Terraced | £212,500 | £339,326 |
| 6 | 9 Apr 2009 | Detached | £250,000 | £410,839 |
| 51 | 20 Oct 2008 | Terraced | £176,000 | £295,429 |
| 17 | 18 Sep 2007 | Detached | £270,000 | £469,420 |
| 11a | 18 Sep 2007 | Detached | £250,000 | £434,649 |
| 43 | 8 Jun 2007 | Terraced | £216,000 | £375,536 |
| 25 | 11 Apr 2007 | Semi-detached | £219,950 | £382,404 |
| 21 | 1 Dec 2006 | Terraced | £195,000 | £347,159 |
| 18 | 12 Aug 2005 | Terraced | £205,000 | £373,450 |
| 2 | 15 Mar 2005 | Semi-detached | £228,500 | £416,260 |
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 Ropers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Ropers Lane | £248,000 (2012) | £425,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 35 Ropers Lane | £225,000 (2003) | £425,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| 18 Ropers Lane | £185,000 (2002) | £275,000 (2016) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 15 Ropers Lane | £326,325 (2002) | £527,500 (2015) | +3.8% | +1.3% |
| 11A Ropers Lane | £250,000 (2007) | £238,000 (2015) | -0.6% | -3.2% |
| 17 Ropers Lane | £270,000 (2007) | £275,000 (2014) | +0.3% | -2.5% |
| 51 Ropers Lane | £176,000 (2008) | £215,000 (2011) | +6.9% | +3.7% |
| 6 Ropers Lane | £187,500 (2000) | £250,000 (2009) | +3.2% | +1.0% |
| 25 Ropers Lane | £40,000 (1998) | £219,950 (2007) | +20.9% | +18.5% |
| 28 Ropers Lane | £37,000 (1997) | £175,000 (2005) | +21.4% | +19.2% |
| 22A Ropers Lane | £78,000 (1996) | £178,000 (2001) | +17.9% | +15.6% |
| 23 Ropers Lane | £67,000 (1995) | £67,000 (1995) | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ropers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 22 | 51.2% | £205,000 | £60,000 – £425,000 |
| Detached | 13 | 30.2% | £250,000 | £78,000 – £527,500 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 18.6% | £90,000 | £37,000 – £376,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ropers Lane, Wareham
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 42 freehold — 2.3% 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 £216,000 and the median freehold sale £217,475 — a gap of +0.7%. 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 | 1 | 2.3% | £216,000 |
| Freehold | 42 | 97.7% | £217,475 |
Section 07
Living in Ropers 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 £216,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.81% 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 Ropers 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 Ropers Lane, Wareham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ropers Lane, Wareham sits above that national figure — +37.1%.
Within Wareham the street ranks 177 of 292 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £225,000 (-4.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,696 per square metre, across 5 of the 43 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 £37,000 to £527,500. 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.
Ropers 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
- 18 Ropers Lane4 sales
- 14 Ropers Lane3 sales
- 51 Ropers Lane3 sales
- 25 Ropers Lane3 sales
- 28 Ropers Lane3 sales
- 35 Ropers Lane2 sales
- 15 Ropers Lane2 sales
- 11A Ropers Lane2 sales
- 17 Ropers Lane2 sales
- 6 Ropers Lane2 sales
- 22A Ropers Lane2 sales
- 23 Ropers Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ropers Lane, Wareham?
The median price paid in Ropers Lane, Wareham across every sale on the register is £216,000. 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 Ropers Lane, Wareham?
43 sales are on record for Ropers Lane, Wareham, the most recent completing on 4 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
What is the price per square metre in Ropers Lane, Wareham?
£2,696 per square metre, from the 5 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 4 Feb 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, “Ropers 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.