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Darlington market report DL1 1
The DL1 1 (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: 3,359 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL1 1 (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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DL1 1 (Darlington) sold for £150,000 in 2026, the median of 52 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £144,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,359 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like DL1 1 is a single group of streets within DL1 (Darlington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DL1 1 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 DL1 1
The 2026 median for DL1 1 is £150,000, taken from 52 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £144,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DL1 1
A square metre of DL1 1 home has cost about £1,800 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DL1 1 trades 47% below the country as a whole.
A typical DL1 1 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £150,500 | £154,099 | 97 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 90 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 88 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 137 |
| 2021 | £136,000 | £172,194 | 154 |
| 2020 | £126,000 | £163,488 | 96 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 97 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 162 |
| 2017 | £131,000 | £178,671 | 179 |
| 2016 | £132,700 | £185,649 | 152 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 153 |
| 2014 | £118,100 | £167,545 | 108 |
| 2013 | £97,200 | £139,861 | 50 |
| 2012 | £77,200 | £113,629 | 48 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 43 |
| 2010 | £97,000 | £152,121 | 39 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 45 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 54 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 119 |
| 2006 | £105,500 | £183,135 | 134 |
| 2005 | £86,000 | £153,045 | 100 |
| 2004 | £83,100 | £150,926 | 150 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 163 |
| 2002 | £52,000 | £97,838 | 165 |
| 2001 | £48,500 | £93,239 | 156 |
| 2000 | £42,700 | £83,799 | 104 |
| 1999 | £36,500 | £72,743 | 80 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 75 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 88 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 101 |
| 1995 | £37,800 | £82,171 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 1 home went from £37,800 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 83%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 1 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.4%). 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) | −0.3% | −2.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DL1 1
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 52 DL1 1 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 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 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.
What tenants pay around DL1 1
The local authority for DL1 1 is Darlington, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £676 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £487 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,074, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Darlington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£676 a month is £8,112 a year, which against the £150,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market DL1 1 is
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL1 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about DL1 1 (Darlington)
How much did a house sell for in DL1 1 (Darlington)?
Are property prices falling in DL1 1 (Darlington)?
Is DL1 1 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
Are DL1 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What is for sale in DL1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 92 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL1 district, not just DL1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Montrose Street, Darlington, Darlington
- Redmire Close, Durham, DL1
- The Byway, 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 DL1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in DL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DL 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 | — | £205,000 | £282,250 (+38%) | £444,995 (+58%) | £625,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £147,250 | £147,000 (0%) | £185,000 (+26%) | £282,000 (+52%) | £380,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £104,750 | £92,999 (-11%) | £112,749 (+21%) | £180,000 (+60%) | £317,000 (+76%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £118,000 (+39%) | £205,000 (+74%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL1 2 | £146,500 | 46 |
| DL1 3 | £202,000 | 49 |
| DL1 4 | £125,000 | 66 |
| DL1 5 | £120,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full DL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DL1 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working DL1 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL1 1.
Take it further
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See every individual DL1 1 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.