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Crayford market report DA1 2, Dartford
The standing DA1 2 (Crayford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,765 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DA1 2 (Dartford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DA1 2 (Dartford) is £350,000, from 52 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £353,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,765 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DA1 2 is one sector of DA1 (Dartford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DA1 2 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.
DA1 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the DA1 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £350,000, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £353,500, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in DA1 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DA1 2 costs about £4,590 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DA1 2 23% above the national figure.
A typical DA1 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £409,800 | £419,600 | 134 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 109 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 87 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 153 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 216 |
| 2020 | £305,000 | £395,744 | 149 |
| 2019 | £283,000 | £370,945 | 145 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 193 |
| 2017 | £286,500 | £390,757 | 224 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 268 |
| 2015 | £214,800 | £303,512 | 207 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 182 |
| 2013 | £199,000 | £286,341 | 122 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 149 |
| 2011 | £196,500 | £296,639 | 136 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 126 |
| 2009 | £158,000 | £253,986 | 117 |
| 2008 | £198,500 | £325,383 | 228 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 319 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 283 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 211 |
| 2004 | £148,500 | £269,705 | 231 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 196 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 253 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 209 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 183 |
| 1999 | £66,300 | £132,132 | 180 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 227 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 201 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 159 |
| 1995 | £52,800 | £114,779 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical DA1 2 home went from £52,800 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 205%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DA1 2 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 2017 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DA1 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.6% | −16.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 52 DA1 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 236 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.
How DA1 2 trades
This is a thin market: 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around DA1 2
The local authority for DA1 2 is Dartford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,562 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,082 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,352, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dartford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,562 a month is £18,744 a year, which against the £350,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on DA1 2 (Crayford)
How much did a house sell for in DA1 2 (Crayford)?
Are property prices falling in DA1 2 (Crayford)?
Is DA1 2 (Crayford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DA1 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in DA1 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 10 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DA1 district, not just DA1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DA1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in DA
Real sold prices by size across the DA area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £450,000 | £600,000 (+33%) | £800,000 (+33%) | £1,100,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £341,500 | £410,000 (+20%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £600,000 (+25%) | £712,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £312,000 | £364,000 (+17%) | £410,000 (+13%) | £499,997 (+22%) | £630,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £217,500 | £287,995 (+32%) | £339,997 (+18%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DA1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DA1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA1 1 | £325,000 | 48 |
| DA1 3 | £450,000 | 58 |
| DA1 4 | £380,000 | 49 |
| DA1 5 | £320,000 | 78 |
Zoom out to the full DA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DA1 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DA1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the DA1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DA1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DA1 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DA1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DA1 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.