That is the middle of 169 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 6.1 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.
A third of Beaminster’s sales are semi-detached houses
169 homes sold in three years: 52 detached houses, 58 semi-detached houses, 51 terraced houses and 8 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£434K
median sale · 52 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£538K
Last 12 months
£435K16 sold
Semi-detached houses£285K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£392K
Last 12 months
£272K20 sold
Terraced houses£295K
median sale · 51 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£229K–£370K
Last 12 months
£300K15 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 8 sold, median £128K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses30%
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 Beaminster’s homes sold for between £240K and £450K
One sale in ten was under £197K and one in ten over £575K. 28% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £325,000, sits in the £300–400K band
169 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in the last 12 months (£260,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
51 sales in the last 12 months, against 98 in 2002, the busiest year, and 35 in 2012.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Beaminster costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Beaminster, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£83K
£150K
£286K
£298K
£320K
£365K
£435K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£92K
£215K
£162K
£170K
£250K
£272K
Terraced houses
£45K
£72K
£215K
£239K
£187K
£229K
£300K
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
100 new homes have been sold in Beaminster since 1995; the share peaked at 26% in 2000.
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, 0.6% sold leasehold in Beaminster. 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
Riverside is Beaminster’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
10 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Riverside
DT8
11
£278,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
St James
DT8
11
£210,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Windy Ridge
DT8
9
£355,000
Mostly detached houses
4
East Street
DT8
9
£300,000
Mixed
5
Gerrards Green
DT8
8
£200,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Hogshill Street
DT8
8
£199,000
Mixed
7
St Mary Well Street
DT8
6
£327,500
Mostly terraced houses
8
Clay Lane
DT8
6
£312,500
Mixed
9
Fleet Street
DT8
6
£310,000
Mixed
10
The Beeches
DT8
5
£235,000
Mostly terraced houses
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.
Across Dorset
Beaminster is the 20th most expensive of 32 towns in Dorset
Beaminster is in the middle of Dorset’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Beaminster
What is the average house price in Beaminster?
The median home in Beaminster sold for £325,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 169 standard sales (£330,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £434,000, semi-detached houses £284,500, terraced houses £295,000 and flats and maisonettes £127,500.
Are house prices going up in Beaminster?
The median was £327,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£325,000), and £330,000 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 Beaminster each year?
51 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 70 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Beaminster?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Windy Ridge (DT8, £355,000), St Mary Well Street (DT8, £327,500) and Clay Lane (DT8, £312,500).
Is Beaminster expensive for Dorset?
Beaminster is the 20th most expensive of 32 towns of 2,500 or more in Dorset by median sale price.
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.
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0