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Darlington market report DL1 5
The standing DL1 5 (Darlington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,062 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL1 5 (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: 32 registered 2026 sales put the DL1 5 (Darlington) median at £120,000, up 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £144,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,450 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,062 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DL1 5 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 5 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 5
In the DL1 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £120,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £144,600, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DL1 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DL1 5 sales average about £1,450 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DL1 5 trades 58% below the country as a whole.
DL1 5's median sold price, 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 | £120,000 | £120,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £122,500 | £125,429 | 64 |
| 2024 | £105,000 | £111,637 | 57 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 62 |
| 2022 | £105,000 | £123,124 | 83 |
| 2021 | £101,000 | £127,879 | 96 |
| 2020 | £82,200 | £106,656 | 64 |
| 2019 | £88,500 | £116,002 | 78 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 75 |
| 2017 | £92,000 | £125,479 | 88 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 100 |
| 2015 | £86,000 | £121,518 | 81 |
| 2014 | £82,000 | £116,331 | 73 |
| 2013 | £76,600 | £110,220 | 66 |
| 2012 | £81,000 | £119,222 | 61 |
| 2011 | £74,200 | £112,013 | 58 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 65 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 45 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 95 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 161 |
| 2006 | £89,500 | £155,361 | 153 |
| 2005 | £79,500 | £141,478 | 108 |
| 2004 | £69,700 | £126,589 | 169 |
| 2003 | £57,500 | £105,929 | 181 |
| 2002 | £46,200 | £86,925 | 172 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 135 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 147 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 95 |
| 1998 | £34,000 | £68,631 | 125 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 107 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 87 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 5 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £120,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 67%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 5 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 2016 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−16.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL1 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 5 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
What homes rent for around DL1 5
For renting purposes DL1 5 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.
Against the £120,000 median purchase price, a rent of £676 a month (£8,112 a year) works out at a 6.8% 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.
How DL1 5 trades
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the DL1 district median, DL1 5 sits 16% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
DL1 5 (Darlington): the questions that come up
Is DL1 5 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL1 5 (Darlington)?
Are property prices falling in DL1 5 (Darlington)?
What happens to DL1 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
DL1's current homes for sale
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
What another bedroom costs 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 | — | £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. 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.
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
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 2 | £146,500 | 46 |
| DL1 3 | £202,000 | 49 |
| DL1 4 | £125,000 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full DL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DL1 5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL1 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DL1 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL1 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DL1 5 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.
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.