That is the middle of 789 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.
789 homes sold in three years: 444 detached houses, 88 semi-detached houses, 37 terraced houses and 220 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£500K
median sale · 444 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£425K–£614K
Last 12 months
£492K133 sold
Semi-detached houses£344K
median sale · 88 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£320K–£385K
Last 12 months
£333K26 sold
Terraced houses£320K
median sale · 37 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£294K–£350K
Last 12 months
£310K11 sold
Flats and maisonettes£225K
median sale · 220 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£285K
Last 12 months
£200K59 sold
New build
£293K
The mix
Mostly detached: 56% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses56%
Semi-detached houses11%
Terraced houses5%
Flats and maisonettes28%
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 Ferndown’s homes sold for between £295K and £520K
One sale in ten was under £188K and one in ten over £663K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £400,000, sits in the £400–500K band
789 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 £86,500 in 1995 to £392,000 in the last 12 months (£366,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
229 sales in the last 12 months, against 570 in 2002, the busiest year, and 183 in 2008. Sales fell by 37% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 45% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ferndown costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ferndown, 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
£98K
£165K
£266K
£310K
£367K
£425K
£492K
Semi-detached houses
£59K
£107K
£194K
£207K
£237K
£308K
£333K
Terraced houses
£60K
£115K
£190K
£202K
£237K
£283K
£310K
Flats and maisonettes
£65K
£94K
£182K
£175K
£184K
£218K
£200K
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
1,004 new homes have been sold in Ferndown since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 2002.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £292,500
against £404,250 for a home sold on, 28% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
28% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.9% sold leasehold in Ferndown. 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
Ringwood Road is Ferndown’s busiest street, with 70 sales in three years
54 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 18 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
Ringwood Road
BH22
70
£102,250
Mostly flats
2
Leeson Drive
BH22
33
£365,000
Mixed
3
Beaufoys Avenue
BH22
30
£315,000
Mostly flats
4
Coppice Avenue
BH22
27
£325,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Wimborne Road East
BH22
25
£267,000
Mostly flats
6
Golf Links Road
BH22
23
£479,770
Mostly flats
7
New Road
BH22
22
£305,000
Mostly flats
8
Fernlea Avenue
BH22
20
£172,500
Mostly flats
9
Dudsbury Avenue
BH22
19
£336,000
Mostly flats
10
Victoria Gardens
BH22
17
£465,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Ameysford Road
BH22
15
£420,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Wollaton Road
BH22
12
£507,500
Mostly detached houses
13
Church Road
BH22
12
£455,500
Mixed
14
Dorset Avenue
BH22
12
£420,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Bracken Road
BH22
10
£467,500
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Pinewood Road: £730,000
Ferndown median£400K
Pinewood Road£730K
Horseshoe Crescent£666K
Chander Close£650K
Hazel Drive£615K
Willow Way£598K
Cheapest streets
Ringwood Road: £102,250
Ferndown median£400K
Ringwood Road£102K
Fernlea Avenue£173K
Princes Road£216K
Coach House Mews£252K
Wimborne Road East£267K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 7.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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
Ferndown is the 9th most expensive of 32 towns in Dorset
Ferndown 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 Ferndown
What is the average house price in Ferndown?
The median home in Ferndown sold for £400,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 789 standard sales (£392,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £500,000, semi-detached houses £343,500, terraced houses £320,000 and flats and maisonettes £225,000.
Are house prices going up in Ferndown?
The median was £420,500 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£400,000), and £392,000 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 Ferndown each year?
229 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 312 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ferndown?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Pinewood Road (BH22, £730,000), Horseshoe Crescent (BH22, £666,000) and Chander Close (BH22, £650,000).
How much does a new build cost in Ferndown?
New homes sold for a median £292,500 over three years, against £404,250 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.6% of sales.
Is Ferndown expensive for Dorset?
Ferndown is the 8th 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.