About £230,000 buys the typical house, which by Dorset standards looks like a pricing error nobody has got round to correcting. Terraces do most of the trading. Flats go for nearer £128,000. The most common council tax band is the cheapest one that exists. This is coastal Dorset without the coastal Dorset invoice.
The Land Registry logged 192 sales in the year to May 2026, with the middle of them at around £230,000. That is enough transactions to trust the median rather than squint at it. Terraced houses are the local currency at roughly £232,000 across 117 sales. Semi-detached come in around £247,000, and detached at about £315,000 off just 18 sales, which puts the detached house somewhere between a property type and a local curiosity. Flats sit at about £128,000, which is why two people can describe the same village and quote figures that sound like different counties.
The published house price index for the area moved up about 1% over the twelve months to May 2026. That is a nudge, not a run, and it deserves to be described as one. Flats went the other way over the same period, down about 2%. Neither number is a forecast, and anyone selling you a story about momentum here is working from something other than the index.
The council tax banding is the quiet part of the affordability story. Band A is the most common band, and around 74% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to roughly £2,765 a year, which is worth holding up against whatever lands on your own doormat, bearing in mind that band A and B account for around three quarters of the stock here.
Renting is a wider Dorset question rather than a village one. Typical private rent across the Dorset area is about £1,040 a month as of April 2026, and that is a mean taken from the Office for National Statistics price index rather than a median of whatever is advertised this week. By size, one-bedroom homes average about £720, two-bedroom about £950, three-bedroom about £1,170, and four or more about £1,660. Dorset as a council area covers a great deal of ground and a great many price brackets, so read those as the area's typical, not this village's own.
Set against local earnings, the sums are unusually forgiving. Modelled household income for the area, gross and before tax, came to about £47,000 in the financial year to March 2023. A typical £230,000 house against that is the sort of ratio that makes a deposit conversation a plan rather than a fantasy, which on an English coastline is rare enough to be worth saying plainly.
Per square metre, the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, roughly 83% of them, work out at about £2,740. The typical matched home measures around 86 square metres. That is the figure to carry into a viewing where an agent gestures at a box room and calls it a study.
The bedroom mix fills in the rest. Around 44% of households have three bedrooms and 33% have two, according to the 2021 Census, with about 8% at one bedroom and 14% at four or more. Anyone after a large family house is fishing a small pond. Anyone after an ordinary three-bed has the run of the place.
On cost, this is where the area stops apologising and starts winning. Plenty of things here are worth arguing about before you buy. The price is not one of them.