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Hartley market report DA3 8, Longfield
The standing DA3 8 (Hartley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,653 registered sales in DA3 8 (Longfield) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DA3 8 (Longfield) home changed hands for £390,000 in 2026 (median of 37 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £472,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,653 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DA3 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DA3 (Longfield). 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 DA3 8 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 buyers actually paid in DA3 8
The 2026 median for DA3 8 is £390,000, taken from 37 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £472,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DA3 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DA3 8 costs about £4,450 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DA3 8 sits 37% above the national market.
DA3 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 138 |
| 2024 | £367,500 | £390,728 | 131 |
| 2023 | £377,500 | £414,780 | 101 |
| 2022 | £339,000 | £397,516 | 153 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 179 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 89 |
| 2019 | £311,000 | £407,647 | 112 |
| 2018 | £312,500 | £416,568 | 121 |
| 2017 | £309,000 | £421,445 | 119 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 135 |
| 2015 | £280,000 | £395,640 | 135 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 149 |
| 2013 | £222,200 | £319,724 | 116 |
| 2012 | £219,000 | £322,341 | 126 |
| 2011 | £203,200 | £306,754 | 126 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 104 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 125 |
| 2008 | £205,800 | £337,350 | 90 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 198 |
| 2006 | £191,200 | £331,899 | 176 |
| 2005 | £188,500 | £335,454 | 141 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 174 |
| 2003 | £157,000 | £289,232 | 184 |
| 2002 | £137,200 | £258,141 | 238 |
| 2001 | £114,000 | £219,159 | 192 |
| 2000 | £106,000 | £208,025 | 169 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 205 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 170 |
| 1997 | £71,500 | £146,632 | 192 |
| 1996 | £64,200 | £135,395 | 176 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 152 |
In cash terms the typical DA3 8 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 189%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA3 8 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 2000 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DA3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.8% | +4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 37 DA3 8 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 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 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.
The shape of the DA3 8 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA3 8 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 8 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around DA3 8
The local authority for DA3 8 is Sevenoaks, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,790 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,252 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,926, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sevenoaks
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £390,000 median sold price, £1,790 a month is £21,480 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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: DA3 8 (Hartley)
How much did a house sell for in DA3 8 (Hartley)?
Are property prices falling in DA3 8 (Hartley)?
Is DA3 8 (Hartley) a good place to buy a house?
Are DA3 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DA area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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.
DA area districts: five years of change
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 7 | £565,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full DA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DA3 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DA3 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the DA3 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DA3 8 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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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DA3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DA3 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.