Homes in Lytchett Matravers sell for a median £413,500
That is the middle of 154 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 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.
59% of Lytchett Matravers’s sales are detached houses
154 homes sold in three years: 91 detached houses, 29 semi-detached houses, 21 terraced houses and 13 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£500K
median sale · 91 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£445K–£600K
Last 12 months
£510K29 sold
Semi-detached houses£336K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£375K
Last 12 months
£303K8 sold
Terraced houses£304K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£296K–£317K
Last 12 months
£304K5 sold
Flats and maisonettes£173K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£188K
The mix
Mostly detached: 59% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses59%
Semi-detached houses19%
Terraced houses14%
Flats and maisonettes8%
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 Lytchett Matravers’s homes sold for between £316K and £525K
One sale in ten was under £220K and one in ten over £640K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £413,500, sits in the £400–500K band
154 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 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £75,500 in 1995 to £450,000 in the last 12 months (£340,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
45 sales in the last 12 months, against 102 in 1998, the busiest year, and 35 in 2011. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 22% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Lytchett Matravers costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Lytchett Matravers, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£95K
£165K
£275K
£297K
£425K
£395K
£510K
Semi-detached houses
£61K
£110K
£184K
£203K
£245K
£286K
£303K
Terraced houses
—
—
£172K
£208K
£230K
—
£304K
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
246 new homes have been sold in Lytchett Matravers since 1995; the share peaked at 48% 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
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.4% sold leasehold in Lytchett Matravers. 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
High Street is Lytchett Matravers’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
10 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
High Street
BH16
10
£294,000
Mixed
2
Wareham Road
BH16
9
£390,000
Mixed
3
The Spinney
BH16
9
£320,000
Mixed
4
Old Pound Close
BH16
7
£517,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Lockyers Way
BH16
7
£192,500
Mixed
6
Anncott Close
BH16
7
£179,174
Mostly flats
7
Purbeck Close
BH16
6
£383,500
Mostly detached houses
8
Deans Drove
BH16
5
£640,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Lime Kiln Road
BH16
5
£515,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Turbetts Close
BH16
5
£496,000
Mostly detached 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
Lytchett Matravers is the 5th most expensive of 32 towns in Dorset
Lytchett Matravers is one of Dorset’s dearest 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 Lytchett Matravers
What is the average house price in Lytchett Matravers?
The median home in Lytchett Matravers sold for £413,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 154 standard sales (£450,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £500,000, semi-detached houses £336,000, terraced houses £304,000 and flats and maisonettes £173,000.
Are house prices going up in Lytchett Matravers?
The median was £461,000 in 2025, up 32% on 2024 (£348,500), and £450,000 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 Lytchett Matravers each year?
45 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 56 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Lytchett Matravers?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Deans Drove (BH16, £640,000), Old Pound Close (BH16, £517,000) and Lime Kiln Road (BH16, £515,000).
Is Lytchett Matravers expensive for Dorset?
Lytchett Matravers is the 5th 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.
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