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Hartley market report DA3 7, Longfield
The DA3 7 (Hartley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,600 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DA3 7 (Longfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DA3 7 (Longfield) came in at £565,000, out of 39 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £567,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,900 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,600 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DA3 7 is one sector of DA3 (Longfield): 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 DA3 7 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.
What DA3 7 homes really sell for
In the DA3 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £565,000, from 39 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £567,400, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in DA3 7
The last five years of sales put DA3 7 at roughly £4,900 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DA3 7 98% above the national figure.
A typical DA3 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £565,000 | £565,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £547,500 | £560,592 | 140 |
| 2024 | £544,000 | £578,384 | 102 |
| 2023 | £560,000 | £615,303 | 101 |
| 2022 | £531,200 | £622,893 | 118 |
| 2021 | £520,000 | £658,387 | 148 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 97 |
| 2019 | £445,000 | £583,288 | 89 |
| 2018 | £464,000 | £618,521 | 106 |
| 2017 | £434,300 | £592,342 | 106 |
| 2016 | £466,700 | £652,918 | 100 |
| 2015 | £435,000 | £614,655 | 124 |
| 2014 | £425,000 | £602,937 | 147 |
| 2013 | £305,000 | £438,865 | 149 |
| 2012 | £337,500 | £496,758 | 101 |
| 2011 | £330,000 | £498,173 | 87 |
| 2010 | £340,000 | £533,208 | 91 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 67 |
| 2008 | £320,000 | £524,548 | 61 |
| 2007 | £340,000 | £576,735 | 111 |
| 2006 | £296,000 | £513,818 | 150 |
| 2005 | £290,000 | £516,083 | 98 |
| 2004 | £289,800 | £526,333 | 126 |
| 2003 | £243,000 | £447,665 | 117 |
| 2002 | £236,200 | £444,408 | 166 |
| 2001 | £197,200 | £379,107 | 122 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 114 |
| 1999 | £156,500 | £311,896 | 120 |
| 1998 | £128,000 | £258,377 | 98 |
| 1997 | £125,000 | £256,350 | 155 |
| 1996 | £112,800 | £237,890 | 126 |
| 1995 | £105,000 | £228,254 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical DA3 7 home went from £105,000 in 1995 to £565,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DA3 7 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 2014 (+39.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in DA3 7
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in DA3 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the DA3 7 market
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA3 7 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 DA3 district median, DA3 7 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of DA3 7
The local authority for DA3 7 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.
Against the £565,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,562 a month (£18,744 a year) works out at a 3.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: DA3 7 (Hartley)
How much did a house sell for in DA3 7 (Hartley)?
Are property prices falling in DA3 7 (Hartley)?
Is DA3 7 (Hartley) a good place to buy a house?
Will DA3 7 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
Bedroom by bedroom: DA prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DA area. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DA3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DA3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA3 8 | £390,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full DA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DA3 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DA3 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the DA3 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DA3 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Keep digging
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See every individual DA3 7 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.