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Darlington market report DL
The DL (Darlington) 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: 191,391 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the DL postcode area (Darlington) 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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 2,354 registered 2026 sales put the the DL postcode area (Darlington) median at £169,200, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £201,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 191,391 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The DL postcode area centred on Darlington covers 17 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where DL 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 DL
2,354 sales were registered in DL in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £169,200. The mean works out at £201,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in DL
A square metre of DL home has cost about £2,010 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DL sits 41% below the national market.
A typical DL 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 | £169,200 | £169,200 | 2,354 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 5,627 |
| 2024 | £172,500 | £183,403 | 5,548 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 5,189 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 6,075 |
| 2021 | £161,000 | £203,847 | 7,362 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 5,105 |
| 2019 | £148,000 | £193,993 | 5,483 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 5,810 |
| 2017 | £142,000 | £193,674 | 5,853 |
| 2016 | £136,500 | £190,965 | 5,563 |
| 2015 | £136,000 | £192,168 | 5,528 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 5,354 |
| 2013 | £128,000 | £184,179 | 4,435 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 3,723 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 3,709 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 3,758 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 3,551 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 4,564 |
| 2007 | £123,500 | £209,490 | 8,828 |
| 2006 | £119,000 | £206,569 | 8,748 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 7,191 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 8,478 |
| 2003 | £77,300 | £142,405 | 9,389 |
| 2002 | £64,000 | £120,415 | 9,235 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 8,233 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 7,089 |
| 1999 | £54,200 | £108,018 | 6,563 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 6,145 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 6,392 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 5,699 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 4,810 |
In cash terms the typical DL home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £169,200 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 73%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL 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 2004 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.0%). 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, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £290,000 against £98,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, DL
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 | £290,000 | 621 | 52,007 |
| Semi-detached | £170,000 | 790 | 58,870 |
| Terraced | £115,000 | 840 | 72,425 |
| Flats | £98,000 | 103 | 8,089 |
What DL has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.5% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in DL
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
DL recorded 4,223 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8,399 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,959 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 DL
The local authority for DL is County Durham, the local authority covering most of the DL area (parts fall under North Yorkshire and Darlington, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £169,200 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
DL (Darlington): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DL (Darlington)?
Is DL (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL (Darlington)?
Are DL prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 DL today
Everything above is what homes in DL sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1,199 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 40% above the DL median sold price.
DL registered 4,223 sales in the last twelve months; the 1,199 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Loraine Walk, Newton Aycliffe
- Murphy Crescent, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland
- Napier Street, Darlington, Darlington
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 DL home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
When homes in DL change hands
Take the 29,801 DL sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 9.6% of the total, January trails with 6.6%. With so little between the busiest and quietest months, DL sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,968 | 6.6% |
| February | 2,293 | 7.7% |
| March | 2,867 | 9.6% |
| April | 2,039 | 6.8% |
| May | 2,198 | 7.4% |
| June | 2,862 | 9.6% |
| July | 2,472 | 8.3% |
| August | 2,716 | 9.1% |
| September | 2,856 | 9.6% |
| October | 2,530 | 8.5% |
| November | 2,602 | 8.7% |
| December | 2,398 | 8.0% |
The price of an extra bedroom in DL
Real sold prices by size across the DL 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 | £182,250 | £201,997 (+11%) | £233,000 (+15%) | £298,000 (+28%) | £375,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 (0%) | £161,000 (+11%) | £205,000 (+27%) | £275,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £104,250 | £91,000 (-13%) | £103,999 (+14%) | £145,000 (+39%) | £240,000 (+66%) |
| Flat | £75,000 | £108,125 (+44%) | £182,500 (+69%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The spread inside DL matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| DL11 Swaledale, Reeth | £340,000 | +8% | 35 |
| DL8 Leyburn, Bedale | £289,000 | +2% | 134 |
| DL7 Northallerton (west), Romanby | £255,000 | +6% | 95 |
| DL2 Staindrop, Gainford | £252,500 | +10% | 159 |
| DL10 Richmond, Catterick | £250,800 | +11% | 116 |
| DL6 Northallerton (east), Ingleby Cross | £243,800 | +2% | 109 |
| DL12 Barnard Castle, Bowes | £214,500 | -2% | 80 |
| DL5 Newton Aycliffe, Heighington | £174,000 | +10% | 149 |
| DL3 Darlington (west), Faverdale | £173,000 | +5% | 293 |
| DL9 Catterick Garrison | £160,000 | +7% | 51 |
| DL13 Stanhope, Frosterley | £145,000 | +4% | 85 |
| DL16 Spennymoor | £145,000 | +5% | 183 |
| DL1 Darlington (east) | £142,500 | +16% | 279 |
| DL14 Bishop Auckland, Evenwood | £125,500 | +14% | 258 |
| DL15 Crook, Willington | £120,000 | +7% | 150 |
| DL17 Ferryhill, Chilton | £105,000 | +17% | 103 |
| DL4 Shildon | £86,500 | +39% | 75 |
Before you sell in DL: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL 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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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.