St Martins Lane, Wareham house prices are built from 61 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 16 Oct 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £220,000.
Median price paid
£220,000
Median per m²
£2,023
HM Land Registry61 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Oct 2024
Section 01
How St Martins Lane, Wareham prices moved
There are too few years of sales in St Martins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 16 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £287,500 | £302,519 |
| 17 | 9 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £570,000 | £599,776 |
| Flat 4 3 | 28 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £232,500 | £269,371 |
| 5 | 15 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 6a | 7 Feb 2022 | Detached | £317,000 | £367,272 |
| Flat 2 3 | 29 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £227,500 | £287,433 |
| 4 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| 2a | 5 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £290,000 | £366,398 |
| 19 | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £710,000 | £919,284 |
| The Bungalow 3 | 13 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £242,500 | £317,185 |
| Flat 2 3 | 5 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £313,915 |
| Flat 5 3 | 21 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 3 | 23 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £346,503 |
| 1 Dollins Court | 5 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £375,822 |
| 23 | 8 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £462,741 |
| 4 | 17 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £279,950 | £381,013 |
| 2 Dollins Court | 31 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £374,276 |
| 27 | 24 Feb 2017 | Detached | £410,000 | £558,012 |
| 13 | 9 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £185,000 | £260,850 |
| 11 | 4 Sep 2015 | Terraced | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 3 | 14 Aug 2015 | Detached | £310,000 | £437,100 |
| 17 | 25 Mar 2015 | Semi-detached | £249,000 | £351,090 |
| 5 Dollins Court | 24 Dec 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £193,642 |
| 3a Dollins Court | 28 Oct 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £179,950 | £258,117 |
| Pear Tree Cottage, 2d | 28 Jul 2014 | Terraced | £250,000 | £358,596 |
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 St Martins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 St Martins Lane | £52,000 (1997) | £287,500 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 17 St Martins Lane | £72,000 (1997) | £570,000 (2024) | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 5 St Martins Lane | £170,000 (2009) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 2 3 St Martins Lane | £240,000 (2019) | £227,500 (2021) | -2.6% | -4.3% |
| 4 St Martins Lane | £279,950 (2017) | £355,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +4.2% |
| 2A St Martins Lane | £122,500 (2000) | £290,000 (2021) | +4.2% | +1.9% |
| 19 St Martins Lane | £250,000 (2009) | £710,000 (2020) | +10.0% | +7.6% |
| 3 St Martins Lane | £310,000 (2015) | £260,000 (2018) | -5.7% | -7.5% |
| 1 DOLLINS COURT St Martins Lane | £137,000 (2002) | £282,000 (2018) | +4.6% | +2.2% |
| 23 St Martins Lane | £190,000 (2005) | £340,000 (2017) | +5.0% | +2.4% |
| 2 DOLLINS COURT St Martins Lane | £133,000 (2001) | £275,000 (2017) | +4.6% | +2.3% |
| 27 St Martins Lane | £198,000 (2000) | £410,000 (2017) | +4.4% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St Martins 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 | 24 | 39.3% | £170,000 | £52,000 – £375,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 24.6% | £317,000 | £57,000 – £710,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 13 | 21.3% | £212,500 | £95,000 – £275,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 14.8% | £249,000 | £72,000 – £570,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St Martins Lane, Wareham
10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 51 freehold — 16.4% 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 £230,000 and the median freehold sale £215,000 — a gap of -6.5%. 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 | 10 | 16.4% | £230,000 |
| Freehold | 51 | 83.6% | £215,000 |
| New build | 3 | 4.9% | £122,500 |
| Existing home | 58 | 95.1% | £226,250 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.9%. 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 St Martins 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 £220,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.71% 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 St Martins 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 St Martins Lane, Wareham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Martins Lane, Wareham sits above that national figure — +39.7%.
Within Wareham the street ranks 170 of 292 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £225,000 (-2.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,023 per square metre, across 8 of the 61 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 £52,000 to £710,000. 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.
St Martins 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
- 11 St Martins Lane5 sales
- 1, DOLLINS COURT St Martins Lane4 sales
- 17 St Martins Lane3 sales
- 2, DOLLINS COURT St Martins Lane3 sales
- 27 St Martins Lane3 sales
- 10 St Martins Lane3 sales
- 3, DOLLINS COURT St Martins Lane3 sales
- 12 St Martins Lane3 sales
- 5 St Martins Lane2 sales
- FLAT 2, 3 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 4 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 2A St Martins Lane2 sales
- 19 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 3 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 23 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 25 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 2B St Martins Lane2 sales
- 9 St Martins Lane2 sales
- 7 St Martins Lane2 sales
Back to Wareham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St Martins Lane, Wareham?
The median price paid in St Martins Lane, Wareham across every sale on the register is £220,000. 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 St Martins Lane, Wareham?
61 sales are on record for St Martins Lane, Wareham, the most recent completing on 16 Oct 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were St Martins Lane, Wareham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £121,225, set in 2000. 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 St Martins Lane, Wareham?
£2,023 per square metre, from the 8 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 16 Oct 2024. 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, “St Martins 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.