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Darlington market report DL1 3
The DL1 3 (Darlington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,069 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL1 3 (Darlington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DL1 3 (Darlington) is £202,000, from 49 registered sales, up 51% on five years earlier; the mean is £202,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,030 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,069 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like DL1 3 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 3 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 3 prices, from the sold record
In the DL1 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £202,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £202,200, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DL1 3
Per square metre, DL1 3 homes have averaged around £2,030 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL1 3 29% below the country at large.
A typical DL1 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £202,000 | £202,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £203,000 | £207,854 | 210 |
| 2024 | £185,500 | £197,225 | 212 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 158 |
| 2022 | £141,000 | £165,339 | 126 |
| 2021 | £134,000 | £169,661 | 161 |
| 2020 | £127,500 | £165,434 | 128 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 119 |
| 2018 | £133,000 | £177,292 | 104 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 136 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 105 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 123 |
| 2014 | £122,500 | £173,788 | 118 |
| 2013 | £117,500 | £169,071 | 127 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 98 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 97 |
| 2010 | £123,000 | £192,896 | 105 |
| 2009 | £117,500 | £188,882 | 66 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 88 |
| 2007 | £128,000 | £217,124 | 195 |
| 2006 | £124,200 | £215,595 | 233 |
| 2005 | £128,200 | £228,144 | 139 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 191 |
| 2003 | £85,800 | £158,064 | 260 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 231 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 220 |
| 2000 | £53,500 | £104,994 | 261 |
| 1999 | £57,000 | £113,598 | 259 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 206 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 213 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 206 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £202,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 106%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 3 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 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.5% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.6% | +3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 49 sales completed in DL1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 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.
Reading the DL1 3 market
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within DL1, this sector trades 42% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around DL1 3
For renting purposes DL1 3 sits in Darlington. The ONS average private rent there is £676 a month (May 2026). 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 £202,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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 people ask about DL1 3 (Darlington)
How much did a house sell for in DL1 3 (Darlington)?
Are property prices falling in DL1 3 (Darlington)?
Is DL1 3 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
Are DL1 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 51% over five years in cash and up 19% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in DL1 today
The live side of the market holds 92 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL1 district, not just DL1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Montrose Street, Darlington, Darlington
- Redmire Close, Durham, DL1
- The Byway, Darlington, Darlington
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DL1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DL1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL1 1 | £150,000 | 52 |
| DL1 2 | £146,500 | 46 |
| 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.
Selling in DL1 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL1 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DL1 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DL1 3 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.