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Crayford market report DA1, Dartford
The DA1 (Crayford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 31,618 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DA1 (Dartford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DA1 (Dartford) is £365,000, from 285 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £360,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,620 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 31,618 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district DA1 covering Dartford, Crayford, Barnes Cray sits in Dartford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DA1 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 sold prices: where the market stands
In the DA1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £365,000, from 285 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £360,500, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in DA1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DA1 costs about £4,620 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 28% above the national figure.
DA1'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 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 285 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 758 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 744 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 659 |
| 2022 | £335,000 | £392,826 | 899 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 1,057 |
| 2020 | £291,500 | £378,227 | 864 |
| 2019 | £297,500 | £389,951 | 947 |
| 2018 | £295,000 | £393,241 | 1,360 |
| 2017 | £298,000 | £406,442 | 1,387 |
| 2016 | £274,000 | £383,329 | 1,427 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 1,174 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 1,117 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 933 |
| 2012 | £178,000 | £261,994 | 851 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 694 |
| 2010 | £178,000 | £279,150 | 621 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 554 |
| 2008 | £190,400 | £312,106 | 766 |
| 2007 | £183,500 | £311,267 | 1,407 |
| 2006 | £164,200 | £285,030 | 1,282 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 991 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 1,207 |
| 2003 | £138,000 | £254,229 | 1,305 |
| 2002 | £117,500 | £221,075 | 1,405 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 1,136 |
| 2000 | £81,500 | £159,944 | 989 |
| 1999 | £67,500 | £134,524 | 1,076 |
| 1998 | £64,500 | £130,198 | 1,113 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 1,031 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 869 |
| 1995 | £53,800 | £116,953 | 710 |
In cash terms the typical DA1 home went from £53,800 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DA1 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 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £509,000 against £225,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, DA1
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 | £509,000 | 12 | 1,548 |
| Semi-detached | £445,000 | 75 | 7,556 |
| Terraced | £358,800 | 120 | 13,974 |
| Flats | £225,000 | 78 | 8,540 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 595 sales completed in DA1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 669 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.
What homes rent for around DA1
For renting purposes DA1 sits in Dartford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,562 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £365,000 median sold price, £1,562 a month is £18,744 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
Asked and answered: DA1 (Crayford)
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What happens to DA1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in DA1 today
Everything above is what homes in DA1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 10 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the DA1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DA1 ranks 5 of 18 in the DA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, DA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DA1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA1 1 | £325,000 | 48 |
| DA1 2 | £350,000 | 52 |
| DA1 3 | £450,000 | 58 |
| DA1 4 | £380,000 | 49 |
| DA1 5 | £320,000 | 78 |
How DA1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DA3 | £502,500 | +14% |
| DA5 | £493,500 | +3% |
| DA13 | £475,000 | +5% |
| DA16 | £468,000 | +10% |
| DA15 | £465,000 | +11% |
| DA7 | £455,000 | +3% |
| DA6 | £405,000 | +16% |
| DA2 | £395,000 | +7% |
| DA4 | £382,500 | +7% |
| DA14 | £381,000 | +2% |
| DA8 | £373,500 | +15% |
| DA1 (this report) | £365,000 | +12% |
| DA17 | £342,500 | +4% |
| DA10 | £340,000 | -15% |
| DA11 | £340,000 | +6% |
| DA12 | £337,500 | +7% |
| DA9 | £335,000 | +18% |
| DA18 | £270,000 | -15% |
Selling in DA1? 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'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.
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Go deeper
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See every individual DA1 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.