That is the middle of 64 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
64 homes sold in three years: 20 detached houses, 28 semi-detached houses, 13 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£323K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£364K
Last 12 months
£238K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£258K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£225K–£290K
Last 12 months
£245K7 sold
Terraced houses£160K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£132K–£240K
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 44% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses44%
Terraced houses20%
Flats and maisonettes5%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Dobwalls’s homes sold for between £179K and £310K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £350K. 48% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £255,000, sits in the £250–300K band
64 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £46,625 in 1995 to £207,500 in the last 12 months (£202,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
18 sales in the last 12 months, against 58 in 2017, the busiest year, and 5 in 2010. Sales fell by 42% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 29% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Dobwalls costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Dobwalls, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£60K
£78K
£201K
—
£186K
£220K
£238K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£56K
£158K
—
£159K
£200K
£245K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 67% in 2017
113 new homes have been sold in Dobwalls since 1995; the share peaked at 67% in 2017.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in Dobwalls. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Dobwalls
What is the average house price in Dobwalls?
The median home in Dobwalls sold for £255,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 64 standard sales (£207,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £322,500, semi-detached houses £257,500 and terraced houses £160,000.
Are house prices going up in Dobwalls?
The median was £266,000 in 2025, up 17% on 2024 (£227,500), and £207,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Dobwalls each year?
18 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 35 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.