About £270,000 for the typical house, with the sea thrown in at no extra charge. Flats go for around £170,000. Detached houses around £420,000. Nearly half the town pays council tax in the two cheapest bands. For a seaside town with a Georgian esplanade, those are inland prices.
The Land Registry logged 727 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median of £270,000 across the lot. The split by type is the useful part. Flats came in at about £170,000 across 181 sales, terraces at about £242,000 across 220, semis at about £325,000 across 151, and detached houses at about £420,000 across 175. Four property types, four genuinely different price points, all of them transacting in volume. Plenty of towns advertise choice and turn out to be selling one thing in four wrappers.
Movement has been slight. The house price index for the area recorded a rise of about 1% over the twelve months to May 2026, which is the sort of change that disappears inside the negotiation on a single sale. Flats went the other way, down about 2% over the same period. Neither figure is a forecast, and neither is worth restructuring a life around.
Council tax lands low. Band B is the most common band, and roughly 48% of dwellings sit in band A or B. A band D household pays about £2,765 a year, which is the number worth holding against whatever you currently pay, since band D is the one everybody quotes at each other.
Renting is measured across the county rather than the town, so it describes the shape of the market rather than the price of any particular street. The typical private rent across the Dorset area runs at about £1,040 a month as of April 2026, up around 4% over the year. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of what is taped up in an agent's window. By size, one-bedroom homes average about £720 a month, two-bedrooms about £950, three-bedrooms about £1,170, and four or more about £1,660.
Set against local earnings, the arithmetic is kinder here than most of this coast allows. Modelled gross household income before tax came to about £49,500 for the financial year to March 2023, and that describes that year rather than this one. Even so, it puts a £270,000 median inside reach for two earners without anything heroic, and a £170,000 flat inside reach for one earner with a deposit and a tolerance for seagulls.
By floor space, the median across the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate comes out at about £3,430 per square metre, covering roughly 72% of sales. The typical matched home ran to about 87 square metres, which is a real house rather than a clever floorplan.
The bedroom mix from Census 2021 explains what the money is actually buying. Around 39% of households sit in three-bedroom homes, 30% in two-bedroom, 18% in four or more, and 14% in one-bedroom. This is a three-bedroom town with flats filling in beneath it, which is why the price ladder has rungs instead of a single step.
Cost is where Weymouth is at its strongest. The town has a beach that wins national polls, a listed seafront, and prices that behave as though none of that had happened yet.