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Darlington market report DL1 4
The DL1 4 (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: 6,832 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL1 4 (Darlington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in DL1 4 (Darlington) sold for £125,000 in 2026, the median of 66 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier. The mean was £132,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,832 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DL1 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DL1 (Darlington). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DL1 4 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 4
The DL1 4 median stands at £125,000 for 2026, built from 66 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £132,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DL1 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DL1 4 sales average about £1,460 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL1 4 runs 56% below it.
The price of a typical DL1 4 home, 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 | £125,000 | £125,000 | 66 |
| 2025 | £125,000 | £127,989 | 147 |
| 2024 | £115,000 | £122,269 | 152 |
| 2023 | £105,000 | £115,369 | 154 |
| 2022 | £123,000 | £144,232 | 169 |
| 2021 | £100,000 | £126,613 | 225 |
| 2020 | £97,500 | £126,508 | 127 |
| 2019 | £98,000 | £128,455 | 155 |
| 2018 | £86,000 | £114,640 | 134 |
| 2017 | £93,000 | £126,843 | 149 |
| 2016 | £87,200 | £121,994 | 188 |
| 2015 | £75,500 | £106,682 | 169 |
| 2014 | £88,500 | £125,553 | 169 |
| 2013 | £88,000 | £126,623 | 139 |
| 2012 | £80,000 | £117,750 | 113 |
| 2011 | £86,800 | £131,035 | 128 |
| 2010 | £86,800 | £136,125 | 128 |
| 2009 | £95,000 | £152,713 | 98 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 217 |
| 2007 | £102,000 | £173,020 | 411 |
| 2006 | £104,000 | £180,531 | 521 |
| 2005 | £102,200 | £181,875 | 456 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 414 |
| 2003 | £51,500 | £94,875 | 384 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 346 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 311 |
| 2000 | £32,700 | £64,174 | 236 |
| 1999 | £32,500 | £64,771 | 204 |
| 1998 | £32,000 | £64,594 | 204 |
| 1997 | £31,500 | £64,600 | 208 |
| 1996 | £29,000 | £61,160 | 167 |
| 1995 | £31,000 | £67,389 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 4 home went from £31,000 in 1995 to £125,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 85%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 4 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 (+65.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−14.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
DL1 4 recorded 66 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 385 sales a year before the financial crisis and 138 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 shape of the DL1 4 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the DL1 district median, DL1 4 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around DL1 4
For renting purposes DL1 4 sits in Darlington. The ONS average private rent there is £676 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £487 a month here against £1,074 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Darlington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £125,000 median sold price, £676 a month is £8,112 a year, a gross yield of 6.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: DL1 4 (Darlington)
Are property prices falling in DL1 4 (Darlington)?
Is DL1 4 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL1 4 (Darlington)?
Where do DL1 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 92 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL1 district, not just DL1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" 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.
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. 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 | — | £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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DL area districts
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 1 | £150,000 | 52 |
| DL1 2 | £146,500 | 46 |
| DL1 3 | £202,000 | 49 |
| 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 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL1 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL1 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL1 4 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 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL1 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DL1 4 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.