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Median price
£315,000
Eligible sales · trailing 24 months
Per square metre
£3,569/m²
Matched sales · trailing 24 months
5-year change
+2.1%
Rolling 12-month medians, five years apart
From rolling peak
-16.5%
Against the highest rolling 12-month median
Market read
Homes in Shaftesbury, Berwick St John (SP7) sold for a median £315,000 over the period, or about £3,569 per square metre. Prices sit 30.8% under the local peak set in 2023. Floor area varies far more than room counts suggest: properties recorded with 8 habitable rooms — bedrooms and receptions together — range from 134 to 272 m² here. Transaction volumes are down 24% on the preceding period. Values have risen 5.0% over the past five years.
Floor-area evidence
Repeat EPC records in this area show some variation in recorded floor area.
Among 1,550 dwellings with repeat EPCs in Shaftesbury, Berwick St John, the typical recorded floor-area range was 6%. This describes the consistency of repeated records, not the condition or value of an individual home.
Market signal
Each point is the median of sales in the three months ending that month.
Market shape
Lower-quarter price
£240,000
25% of recent eligible sales were below this
Median price
See headline
Same 24-month sale population
Upper-quarter price
£440,000
25% of recent eligible sales were above this
Property types
£449,000
£3,657/m²
£164,000
£2,931/m²
£287,500
£3,577/m²
£231,500
£/m² withheld for evidence
Energy-rating evidence
These are matched-sale associations, not a valuation of energy efficiency. Each rating cell contains at least five sales.
£430,000
£3,911/m²
£322,750
£3,504/m²
£265,000
£3,470/m²
£357,500
£3,728/m²
£402,500
£3,485/m²
£341,500
£3,621/m²
Energy-transition evidence
This is the latest available EPC record for each identifiable certified dwelling, not a census of every home or an assessment of an individual property.
EPC sample
5,463
Latest certificate to 31 July 2026
Rated D–G
47%
Current EPC rating in the certificate sample
Potentially higher rating
74%
Potential EPC rating exceeds current rating
EPC potential values are modelled certificate outputs, not quotes for retrofit work, future bills, a value uplift or a letting/compliance conclusion. Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register domestic certificates.
The space signal
Property listings describe homes by bedroom count, but that is not recorded in any public dataset. What is recorded is the number of habitable rooms — bedrooms and reception rooms together — and the total floor area. In Shaftesbury, Berwick St John, homes with the same number of habitable rooms vary enormously in size.
| Habitable rooms | Smaller (10th) | Typical | Larger (90th) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 32 m² | 39 m² | 52 m² | 204 |
| 3 | 54 m² | 59 m² | 78 m² | 302 |
| 4 | 62 m² | 79 m² | 94 m² | 386 |
| 5 | 81 m² | 111 m² | 155 m² | 372 |
| 6 | 99 m² | 125 m² | 179 m² | 346 |
| 7 | 114 m² | 143 m² | 222 m² | 266 |
| 8 | 134 m² | 191 m² | 272 m² | 169 |
| 9 | 160 m² | 218 m² | 281 m² | 73 |
| 10 | 208 m² | 285 m² | 342 m² | 41 |
| 11 | 188 m² | 300 m² | 312 m² | 14 |
| 12 | 279 m² | 299 m² | 418 m² | 5 |
The widest spread here is among homes with 8 habitable rooms, ranging from 134 to 272 m². Two properties advertised the same way can differ by more than half their floor area, which is why price per square metre is a more useful comparison than price alone.
Data current to 25 June 2026.