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Darlington market report DL1 2
The standing DL1 2 (Darlington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,298 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL1 2 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 46 registered 2026 sales put the DL1 2 (Darlington) median at £146,500, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £146,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,298 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DL1 2 is one sector of DL1 (Darlington): 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 DL1 2 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.
Today's DL1 2 prices, from the sold record
46 sales were registered in DL1 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £146,500. The mean works out at £146,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in DL1 2
By floor space, homes in DL1 2 have sold for about £1,790 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL1 2 runs 49% below it.
DL1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £146,500 | £146,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 121 |
| 2024 | £135,000 | £143,533 | 117 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 114 |
| 2022 | £131,000 | £153,612 | 126 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 179 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 164 |
| 2019 | £122,200 | £160,175 | 148 |
| 2018 | £114,000 | £151,964 | 144 |
| 2017 | £114,000 | £155,485 | 118 |
| 2016 | £112,500 | £157,389 | 120 |
| 2015 | £111,000 | £156,843 | 139 |
| 2014 | £113,500 | £161,020 | 132 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 98 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 102 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 87 |
| 2010 | £112,000 | £175,645 | 70 |
| 2009 | £107,000 | £172,003 | 73 |
| 2008 | £103,800 | £170,150 | 116 |
| 2007 | £111,000 | £188,287 | 304 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 277 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 206 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 242 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 308 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 286 |
| 2001 | £50,100 | £96,315 | 268 |
| 2000 | £42,000 | £82,425 | 230 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 201 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 192 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 207 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 195 |
| 1995 | £38,700 | £84,128 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 2 home went from £38,700 in 1995 to £146,500 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 74%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 2 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 2003 (+46.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−8.5%). 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) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in DL1 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 265 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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.
Rents around DL1 2
DL1 2 falls under Darlington, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £146,500 median sold price, £676 a month is £8,112 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.
How DL1 2 trades
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: DL1 2 (Darlington)
Is DL1 2 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL1 2 (Darlington)?
Are property prices falling in DL1 2 (Darlington)?
Are DL1 2 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 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
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 2: 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DL1 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: DL prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the DL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DL1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL1 1 | £150,000 | 52 |
| 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 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DL1 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DL1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.