About £330,000 for the typical house, which buys a stone town in a National Landscape and not much of a commute. Terraces go cheapest, detached go dearest, and the gap between them is wider than the town's modest scale suggests. Fewer than sixty homes changed hands over the whole year. Most of the housing sits in the cheapest council tax bands, which surprises people who arrive expecting the honey-coloured frontages to come with a matching bill. This is a small market where a handful of sales moves the picture, not a place with a price list.
The Land Registry recorded 55 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median of around £330,000. Split by type, terraces came in at about £285,000, semi-detached at roughly £298,000, and detached at around £448,000 across 18 sales. That terrace-to-semi gap is narrow enough to be noise. The jump to detached is the real division in the market, and it is the one buyers spend their weekends arguing about.
The published house price index for the area put the average at around £326,000 as of May 2026, with a twelve-month change of about 1.4% and five-year growth of roughly 11%. Flats went the other way, down about 2% over the year. Neither figure is dramatic and neither should be treated as a forecast. A 1.4% move over a year is a market holding still with reasonable dignity.
Council tax is where the arithmetic gets friendlier than the postcard suggests. Band A is the single most common band, and around 39% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to roughly £2,765 a year, which is the figure most readers can hold against their own.
Rent is published across the whole Dorset local authority area rather than for the town itself, so read it as the regional typical. Average private rent across Dorset runs at about £1,040 a month, up around 4% over the year to April 2026. By size, one-bedroom places average about £720 a month, two-bedroom about £950, three-bedroom about £1,170, and four or more about £1,660. Those are means from the national rent index rather than a middle value of what is currently advertised in the window of an estate agent on the square.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for the area in the financial year to March 2023 was around £47,700 before tax. Set that against a £330,000 median and the sums are a stretch rather than an impossibility, particularly for anyone arriving with equity from somewhere with better trains. For a household earning locally and buying locally, it is tight. That is the quiet reason so much of the market moves between people who already own something.
Per square metre, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 73% of them, came out at a median of roughly £3,680, on a typical floor area of around 93 square metres. That is a useful sanity check when a listing photograph makes a room look larger than the tape measure will.
On bedroom count, from the 2021 census, around 41% of households have three bedrooms and around 29% have two. Four or more accounts for about 19%, and one-bedroom homes about 10%. The three-bed is the default here, which is why the market feels thin for anyone hunting either end of that range.
Beaminster prices sit in reasonable territory: better value than the National Landscape setting and the stone would lead you to expect, without ever being cheap. What you are paying for is the view and the quiet, and what you are saving on is the station you do not have.