Dorset
BH31 house prices in Dorset
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Dorset, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£391,250
Range £220,000–£600,000 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Jun 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in BH31: the typical (median) sold price is £391,250, well above the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). BH31 is an active market, with about 17 recorded sales a month. By property type, 62% were detached homes (typically £470,000) and 16% were terraced homes (typically £270,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £2,765 a year: Dorset's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Dorset, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on BH31: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
250 sales since June 2025 make BH31 a steady market, enough to learn from, though the year-on-year comparison is too thin to quote, so lean on the recent sold homes.
For sellers, most sales in BH31 fell between £220,000 and £600,000, so narrow down to sold homes that match yours before you pick a price; sales arrive at a steady pace, so there is no need to rush to a low price.
Sell houseWhen buying here, BH31 sits well above the UK average for typical prices, so a price above the norm for the area should be earned by the home itself, not assumed.
Before you offer in BH31, check planning history nearby (951 applications on record within 500 m), flood risk over the long term and council tax (Band D is £2,765 a year), and ask your conveyancer about the title.
The free BH31 OfferCheck pulls sold prices, flood, crime, planning, council tax and schools into one sourced page; the Report says which matter for the home you have in mind.
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At a glance
BH31 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£391,250
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
17.3
Across 250 sales
Council tax, Band D
£2,765
A year
On the map
Where BH31 sits in Dorset
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in BH31
3, HOLM OAK CLOSE, VERWOOD
Semi-detached · Freehold · 21 Aug 2026
£378,000
2 - 4, RINGWOOD ROAD, VERWOOD
Other · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£540,000
WOODHOUSE COURT, 94, RINGWOOD ROAD, VERWOOD
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 7 Aug 2026
£195,000
9, NEWTOWN LANE, VERWOOD
Detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£315,000
MAPLE HOUSE, 11, HEATHPOULT ROAD, VERWOOD
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 5 Aug 2026
£220,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). BH31 includes the Cranborne & Alderholt ward.
The data, honestly
House prices in BH31
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in BH31 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £470,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £190,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 145 | £470,000 | £370,000–£634,200 |
| Semi-detached | 33 | £370,000 | £266,200–£454,000 |
| Terraced | 37 | £270,000 | £216,000–£318,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 19 | £190,000 | £142,000–£249,500 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Jun 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in BH31
The quarterly typical price fell 4.4%, from £390,000 in Q2 2025 (10 sales) to £373,000 in Q3 2026 (20 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2025 | £390,000 | 10 |
| Q3 2025 | £393,750 | 66 |
| Q4 2025 | £395,000 | 65 |
| Q1 2026 | £413,000 | 50 |
| Q2 2026 | £377,000 | 39 |
| Q3 2026 | £373,000 | 20 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Jun 2025 and 21 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of BH31 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most BH31 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £220,000 and £600,000, around a typical £391,250.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Jun 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in BH31
Detached homes were 62% of recorded sales (145 of 234). 92% of sales were freehold and 8% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached62%
- Semi-detached14%
- Terraced16%
- Flat / maisonette8%
Tenure
- Freehold92%
- Leasehold8%
See the figures
229 freehold (92%) and 21 leasehold (8%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in BH31, including 7 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 6 Jun 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
MAPLE HOUSE, 11, HEATHPOULT ROAD, VERWOOD
£230,000 (2025)£220,000 (2026)-4.3% over 0.7 yrs (-5.8%/yr)
LITTLE CHASEBOROUGH, 48, DEWLANDS WAY, VERWOOD
£247,500 (2025)£276,000 (2026)+11.5% over 0.7 yrs (+17.4%/yr)
28, BLACK MOOR ROAD, VERWOOD
£325,000 (2025)£272,000 (2026)-16.3% over 0.6 yrs (-26.7%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
In plain English
What the Dorset (BH31) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £470,000 against £190,000 for flats: about 2.5 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Nearly all of these sales (92%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 17 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 6 June 2025 and 21 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on BH31
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in BH31
£2,765
Band D a year in Dorset, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,843 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,151 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,458 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,765 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,379 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,994 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,608 |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,530 |
These are Dorset's charges for 2026-27, the authority BH31 falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for Dorset · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near BH31
5
open schools within 3 km, nearest Hillside Community First School.
All schools
Hillside Community First School
Primary · Academies · BH31 7HE
558 m
Good · 2011
Emmanuel Church of England Middle School
Secondary · Academies · BH31 6JF
786 m
Good · 2022
Verwood Church of England First School
Primary · Academies · BH31 6JF
786 m
Good · 2023
Trinity Church of England First School
Primary · Academies · BH31 7PG
1.0 km
Outstanding · 2014
Three Legged Cross First and Nursery School
Primary · Academies · BH21 6RF
2.7 km
Good · 2023
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the BH31 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 5 open schools within 3 km, 5 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near BH31
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around BH31
951
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 23 July 2026.
Recent applications
DorsetCouncil/P/TRD/2026/03637Permitted
368 m
T1 Pine - Remove Under Regulation 14 (S198)
Received 2026-07-03 · decided 2026-07-06
DorsetCouncil/P/TRT/2026/02703Permitted
473 m
T1 English Oak (Quercus robur) - Reduce end-weight on the limb showing fracture by pruning back from the tips inward to suitable strong lateral growth points. - Selectively prune elongated lateral limbs on all sides of the canopy. Reduce from the tips inward by approximately 1–1.5 metres back to suitable secondary laterals (minimum 1/3 diameter rule). - Crown raise from ground to 5 metres.
Received 2026-05-22 · decided 2026-06-15
DorsetCouncil/P/TRT/2026/02439Permitted
320 m
T1 Oak - Cut back from property by up to 2 metres to suitable growth points to gain a 2-metre separation from the dwelling. T2 Oak (located in woodland) - Remove lower epicormic growth.
Received 2026-05-06 · decided 2026-05-29
DorsetCouncil/P/TRT/2026/02438Permitted
367 m
T1 Oak - Reduce limbs growing towards and over the conservatory by up to 2.5 metres pruning back to suitable growth points. - Reduce back limb growing over into neighbour’s (6 Merryfield Close) garden by 2 metres or to suitable growth points.
Received 2026-05-05 · decided 2026-05-28
DorsetCouncil/P/TRT/2026/02353Unresolved
460 m
T1 Fir (Abies sp.) - Selective reduction of the lower overextended lateral branches on the Northeast and Southwest aspects from the tips inward by approximately 1.5 – 2.0 metres with all cuts made back to suitable live lateral branches or growth points of at least one-third the diameter of the branch being removed. - Crown thinning of no more than 20–25% of the live crown volume in total.
Received 2026-04-29 · decided 2026-05-27
DorsetCouncil/P/TRD/2026/02200Permitted
447 m
Birch (Dead) - Fell
Received 2026-04-21 · decided 2026-04-22
Applications are matched within 500 m of the BH31 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for BH31 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 951 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 23 July 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for BH31
Decile 8 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled BH31 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 8 to decile 10, with a median of decile 8 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
BH31 7PP, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 8 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so BH31 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in BH31: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in BH31, band by band
Dorset's council tax for 2026-27 set against the BH31 median sold price of £391,250 across 250 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearDorset | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £391,250 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,843 | £154 | 0.47% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,151 | £179 | 0.55% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,458 | £205 | 0.63% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,765 | £230 | 0.71% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,379 | £282 | 0.86% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,994 | £333 | 1.02% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,608 | £384 | 1.18% |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,530 | £461 | 1.41% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the BH31 median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 250 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Dorset, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in BH31 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 236 distinct addresses in the records we hold for BH31. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
3, HOLM OAK CLOSE, VERWOOD
BH31 7PP · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£378,000
2026-08-21
2 - 4, RINGWOOD ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 7AQ · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£540,000
2026-08-14
WOODHOUSE COURT, 94, RINGWOOD ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 7AL · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£195,000
2026-08-07
9, NEWTOWN LANE, VERWOOD
BH31 6JD · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£315,000
2026-08-07
MAPLE HOUSE, 11, HEATHPOULT ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 7BP · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 3 recorded sales
£220,000
2026-08-05
44, MARGARDS LANE, VERWOOD
BH31 6JW · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£495,000
2026-07-31
11, OTTER CLOSE, VERWOOD
BH31 6NY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£350,000
2026-07-31
21, MENDIP CLOSE, VERWOOD
BH31 6UE · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£270,000
2026-07-31
14, ALBION WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 7LR · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£525,000
2026-07-29
50, NEWTOWN ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6EL · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£587,912
2026-07-28
10, SHIRES MEAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6LD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£285,000
2026-07-20
LITTLE CHASEBOROUGH, 48, DEWLANDS WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 6JN · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 recorded sales
£276,000
2026-07-20
12, FIRS GLEN ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6JB · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£510,000
2026-07-17
53, COOPERS LANE, VERWOOD
BH31 7PG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£300,000
2026-07-17
12, KILN WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 6GE · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£368,000
2026-07-17
17, THE KINGFISHERS, VERWOOD
BH31 6NP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£305,000
2026-07-15
114, ALBION WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 7LR · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£495,000
2026-07-14
16, DEWLANDS ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6PL · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£600,000
2026-07-07
24, FAIRWOOD ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6UA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£390,000
2026-07-03
119, ALBION WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 7LT · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£520,000
2026-07-01
52, KESWICK WAY, VERWOOD
BH31 6HP · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£430,000
2026-06-30
POTTERY LODGE, CRESCENT ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6DA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£450,000
2026-06-26
44, OWLS ROAD, VERWOOD
BH31 6HJ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£372,500
2026-06-26
29, HEATHER GARDENS, VERWOOD
BH31 7BA · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£126,000
2026-06-23
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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Nearby
Postcode districts near BH31
The closest districts to BH31 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in BH24 (Ringwood) 4.4 miles
- House prices in BH22 (Ferndown) 5 miles
- House prices in SP6 (Fordingbridge) 5.2 miles
- House prices in BH21 (Wimborne) 6.3 miles
- House prices in BH11 (Bournemouth) 8.1 miles
- House prices in BH10 (Bournemouth) 8.1 miles
- House prices in BH9 (Bournemouth) 8.8 miles
- House prices in BH8 (Bournemouth) 9.3 miles
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Data sources
Every BH31 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.