That is the middle of 84 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 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.
40% of Dunkeswell’s sales are semi-detached houses
84 homes sold in three years: 18 detached houses, 34 semi-detached houses and 32 terraced houses.
Detached houses£285K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£245K–£350K
Semi-detached houses£223K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£208K–£249K
Last 12 months
£228K15 sold
Terraced houses£186K
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£171K–£210K
Last 12 months
£185K13 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 40% of sales
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses40%
Terraced houses38%
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 Dunkeswell’s homes sold for between £190K and £257K
One sale in ten was under £160K and one in ten over £332K. 73% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £220,000, sits in the £200–250K band
84 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 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 £44,250 in 1995 to £220,000 in the last 12 months (£185,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 71 in 1997, the busiest year, and 22 in 2008. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 123% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Dunkeswell costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Dunkeswell, 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
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£65K
£146K
£159K
£149K
—
£228K
Terraced houses
£38K
£52K
£119K
£125K
£123K
£155K
£185K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
111 new homes have been sold in Dunkeswell since 1995; the share peaked at 50% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Dunkeswell. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Tower Way is Dunkeswell’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Tower Way
EX14
14
£190,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Jenwood Road
EX14
9
£164,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Manleys Lane
EX14
5
£274,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Simcoe Way
EX14
5
£222,500
Mixed
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Dunkeswell’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Dunkeswell
What is the average house price in Dunkeswell?
The median home in Dunkeswell sold for £220,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 84 standard sales (£220,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £285,000, semi-detached houses £222,500 and terraced houses £185,500.
Are house prices going up in Dunkeswell?
The median was £226,500 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£215,000), and £220,000 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 Dunkeswell each year?
31 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 34 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.