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Crayford market report DA1 3, Dartford
The DA1 3 (Crayford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,568 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DA1 3 (Dartford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DA1 3 (Dartford) sold for £450,000 in 2026, the median of 58 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £471,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,040 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,568 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DA1 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DA1 (Dartford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DA1 3 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.
The going rate for a home in DA1 3
Across 58 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DA1 3 home went for £450,000. The mean is £471,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in DA1 3
The last five years of sales put DA1 3 at roughly £5,040 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DA1 3 58% above the country at large.
DA1 3's median sold price, 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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 152 |
| 2024 | £427,500 | £454,520 | 142 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 102 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 139 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 185 |
| 2020 | £359,000 | £465,810 | 114 |
| 2019 | £355,000 | £465,320 | 135 |
| 2018 | £336,500 | £448,561 | 147 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 156 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 175 |
| 2015 | £287,000 | £405,531 | 153 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 154 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 151 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 145 |
| 2011 | £198,500 | £299,659 | 138 |
| 2010 | £217,000 | £340,312 | 157 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 120 |
| 2008 | £213,200 | £349,480 | 118 |
| 2007 | £213,500 | £362,155 | 243 |
| 2006 | £199,000 | £345,439 | 227 |
| 2005 | £185,800 | £330,649 | 208 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 245 |
| 2003 | £187,000 | £344,499 | 308 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 366 |
| 2001 | £117,000 | £224,927 | 207 |
| 2000 | £98,800 | £193,895 | 166 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 195 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 193 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 222 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 200 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical DA1 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 245%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA1 3 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 (+41.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in DA1 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 58 DA1 3 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 246 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around DA1 3
DA1 3 falls under Dartford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,562 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,082 a month here against £2,352 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £450,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
Reading the DA1 3 market
Only 58 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the DA1 district median, DA1 3 sits 23% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about DA1 3 (Crayford)
How much did a house sell for in DA1 3 (Crayford)?
Are property prices falling in DA1 3 (Crayford)?
Is DA1 3 (Crayford) a good place to buy a house?
Will DA1 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
DA1's current homes for sale
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in DA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DA area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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.
Other sectors in DA1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DA1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA1 1 | £325,000 | 48 |
| DA1 2 | £350,000 | 52 |
| 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.
Selling in DA1 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DA1 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DA1 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DA1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DA1 3 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.
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.