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Farningham market report DA4, Dartford
The DA4 (Farningham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,225 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DA4 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DA4 (Dartford) came in at £382,500, out of 56 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £412,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,225 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DA4 is a postcode district covering Farningham, Eynsford, South Darenth in Dartford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DA4 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.
DA4 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 56 registered 2026 sales in DA4 and the middle price, the median, is £382,500. The mean lands at £412,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DA4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in DA4 have sold for about £4,630 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DA4 sits 34% above the national market.
DA4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 56 |
| 2025 | £387,500 | £396,766 | 152 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 138 |
| 2023 | £392,500 | £431,262 | 107 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 171 |
| 2021 | £358,200 | £453,527 | 218 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 139 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 117 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 141 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 155 |
| 2016 | £278,500 | £389,624 | 168 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 184 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 189 |
| 2013 | £232,000 | £333,825 | 165 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 105 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 115 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 182 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 182 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 100 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 210 |
| 2006 | £199,000 | £345,439 | 217 |
| 2005 | £198,800 | £353,784 | 134 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 179 |
| 2003 | £176,500 | £325,156 | 168 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 227 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 229 |
| 2000 | £116,500 | £228,631 | 180 |
| 1999 | £97,500 | £194,312 | 190 |
| 1998 | £86,500 | £174,606 | 152 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 214 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 187 |
| 1995 | £66,900 | £145,430 | 154 |
In cash terms the typical DA4 home went from £66,900 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DA4 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 (+19.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−22.2%). 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, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £710,000 against £227,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, DA4
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 | £710,000 | 7 | 916 |
| Semi-detached | £415,000 | 15 | 1,414 |
| Terraced | £375,300 | 20 | 1,528 |
| Flats | £227,500 | 14 | 1,367 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 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 DA4
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 monthly pulse, last five years
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, 122 sales completed in DA4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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.
The rental side of DA4
The local authority for DA4 is Sevenoaks, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,790 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,252 a month here against £2,926 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sevenoaks
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £382,500 median sold price, £1,790 a month is £21,480 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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.
How DA4 trades
Only 122 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: DA4 (Farningham)
Are property prices falling in DA4 (Farningham)?
Is DA4 (Farningham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DA4 (Farningham)?
Will DA4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
On the market in DA4 today
Everything above is what homes in DA4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 6 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 93% above the DA4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 17% 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 DA4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DA prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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
DA4 ranks 10 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.
Winners and losers across the DA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DA4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DA4 0 | £490,000 | 23 |
| DA4 9 | £320,000 | 33 |
How DA4 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 (this report) | £382,500 | +7% |
| DA14 | £381,000 | +2% |
| DA8 | £373,500 | +15% |
| DA1 | £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 a home in DA4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DA4'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DA4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DA4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DA4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.