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Dartford market report DA
The standing DA (Dartford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 224,125 HM Land Registry entries for the DA postcode area (Dartford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in the DA postcode area (Dartford) sold for £395,000 in 2026, the median of 2,392 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £415,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 224,125 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The DA postcode area centred on Dartford covers 18 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where DA sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
DA sold prices: where the market stands
In the DA property market, the 2026 median sale price is £395,000, from 2,392 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £415,100, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DA
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DA sales average about £4,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DA 39% above the national figure.
The price of a typical DA home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 2,392 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 5,954 |
| 2024 | £387,000 | £411,460 | 5,462 |
| 2023 | £382,500 | £420,274 | 5,052 |
| 2022 | £392,000 | £459,665 | 6,639 |
| 2021 | £362,000 | £458,339 | 8,038 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 5,500 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 6,194 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 6,915 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 7,163 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 7,198 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 7,577 |
| 2014 | £236,000 | £334,807 | 7,572 |
| 2013 | £214,200 | £308,212 | 6,329 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 5,385 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 5,021 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 4,834 |
| 2009 | £181,000 | £290,959 | 4,533 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 5,055 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 9,810 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 9,738 |
| 2005 | £177,500 | £315,878 | 7,502 |
| 2004 | £168,500 | £306,029 | 9,420 |
| 2003 | £157,000 | £289,232 | 9,271 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 10,480 |
| 2001 | £111,200 | £213,776 | 9,090 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 7,727 |
| 1999 | £82,500 | £164,418 | 8,800 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 7,877 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 8,390 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 7,071 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 6,136 |
In cash terms the typical DA home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 203%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+19.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DA has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £630,000 against £230,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, DA
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £630,000 | 261 | 22,492 |
| Semi-detached | £460,000 | 777 | 70,933 |
| Terraced | £375,000 | 858 | 79,246 |
| Flats | £230,000 | 496 | 51,454 |
How many homes change hands in DA
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DA recorded 4,332 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 9,130 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,100 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around DA
DA falls under Bexley, the local authority covering most of the DA area (parts fall under Dartford and Gravesham, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,528 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,221 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,413 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bexley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £395,000 median sold price, £1,528 a month is £18,336 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on DA (Dartford)
How much did a house sell for in DA (Dartford)?
Are property prices falling in DA (Dartford)?
Is DA (Dartford) a good place to buy a house?
Are DA prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in DA now
Everything above is what homes in DA sold for. The live side of the market holds 178 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the DA median sold price.
DA registered 4,332 sales in the last twelve months; the 178 homes listed now would take about 2 weeks to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 9% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 10A Lewis Road, Istead Rise, Gravesend, DA13, Gravesend
- Nelson Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent
- Redpoll Way, Erith, Erith
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DA home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Month by month: when DA sells
Across the 31,145 sales completed in DA from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.3% of the total) and April the quietest (6.4%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,328 | 7.5% |
| February | 2,503 | 8.0% |
| March | 3,530 | 11.3% |
| April | 1,993 | 6.4% |
| May | 2,161 | 6.9% |
| June | 3,198 | 10.3% |
| July | 2,335 | 7.5% |
| August | 2,616 | 8.4% |
| September | 2,997 | 9.6% |
| October | 2,502 | 8.0% |
| November | 2,537 | 8.1% |
| December | 2,445 | 7.9% |
What another bedroom costs in DA
Real sold prices by size across the DA area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £430,000 | £465,500 (+8%) | £556,250 (+19%) | £670,750 (+21%) | £850,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | £400,000 (+25%) | £450,000 (+13%) | £535,995 (+19%) | £625,000 (+17%) |
| Terraced | £291,000 | £338,500 (+16%) | £378,000 (+12%) | £445,000 (+18%) | £510,000 (+15%) |
| Flat | £205,000 | £270,000 (+32%) | £315,000 (+17%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The spread inside DA matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA5 Bexley, Bexley Village | £525,000 | +10% | 135 |
| DA3 Longfield, Hartley | £490,000 | +11% | 97 |
| DA13 Meopham, Istead Rise | £475,000 | +5% | 85 |
| DA15 Sidcup (north), Blackfen | £471,500 | +12% | 170 |
| DA16 Welling, Falconwood | £470,000 | +11% | 165 |
| DA7 Bexleyheath (north), Barnehurst | £460,000 | +5% | 187 |
| DA14 Sidcup, Foots Cray | £412,500 | +10% | 116 |
| DA6 Bexleyheath, Upton | £405,000 | +16% | 65 |
| DA2 Dartford (east), Stone | £400,000 | +8% | 128 |
| DA4 Farningham, Eynsford | £386,000 | +8% | 66 |
| DA1 Dartford, Crayford | £370,000 | +14% | 333 |
| DA8 Erith, Northumberland Heath | £365,000 | +12% | 147 |
| DA11 Gravesend (west), Northfleet | £350,000 | +9% | 202 |
| DA10 Swanscombe, Ebbsfleet | £337,500 | -15% | 86 |
| DA12 Gravesend (east), Chalk | £335,000 | +6% | 223 |
| DA17 Belvedere, Upper Belvedere | £335,000 | +2% | 79 |
| DA9 Greenhithe, Stone | £330,000 | +17% | 105 |
| DA18 Erith Marshes | £270,000 | -15% | 3 |
Before you sell in DA: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DA's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DA already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DA sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.