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Darlington market report DL1
The standing DL1 (Darlington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 23,621 HM Land Registry entries for DL1 (Darlington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DL1 (Darlington) sold for £142,500 in 2026, the median of 245 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £153,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,720 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 23,621 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district DL1 covering Darlington (east) sits in Darlington. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DL1 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.
DL1 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 245 registered 2026 sales in DL1 and the middle price, the median, is £142,500. The mean lands at £153,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DL1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL1 costs about £1,720 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL1 50% below the country at large.
The price of a typical DL1 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 | £142,500 | £142,500 | 245 |
| 2025 | £151,000 | £154,611 | 639 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 628 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 576 |
| 2022 | £132,000 | £154,785 | 641 |
| 2021 | £122,500 | £155,101 | 815 |
| 2020 | £119,000 | £154,405 | 579 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 597 |
| 2018 | £117,000 | £155,963 | 619 |
| 2017 | £115,000 | £156,848 | 670 |
| 2016 | £111,000 | £155,290 | 665 |
| 2015 | £106,000 | £149,778 | 665 |
| 2014 | £104,000 | £147,542 | 600 |
| 2013 | £97,800 | £140,724 | 480 |
| 2012 | £88,500 | £130,261 | 422 |
| 2011 | £97,000 | £146,433 | 413 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 407 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 327 |
| 2008 | £105,500 | £172,937 | 570 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 1,190 |
| 2006 | £106,000 | £184,002 | 1,318 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 1,009 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 1,167 |
| 2003 | £67,500 | £124,351 | 1,296 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 1,200 |
| 2001 | £46,500 | £89,394 | 1,090 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 978 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 839 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 802 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 823 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 756 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 595 |
In cash terms the typical DL1 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £142,500 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 77%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL1 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 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £232,500 against £75,800 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, DL1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £232,500 | 35 | 3,549 |
| Semi-detached | £150,000 | 120 | 10,309 |
| Terraced | £108,500 | 78 | 8,632 |
| Flats | £75,800 | 12 | 1,131 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.6% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
DL1 recorded 514 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 546 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.
The rental side of DL1
DL1 falls under Darlington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £676 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £142,500 median purchase price, a rent of £676 a month (£8,112 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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.
Common questions on DL1 (Darlington)
Are property prices falling in DL1 (Darlington)?
Is DL1 (Darlington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL1 (Darlington)?
Are DL1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
DL1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DL1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 92 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the DL1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DL area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DL1 ranks 3 of 17 in the DL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
DL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DL1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| DL1 5 | £120,000 | 32 |
How DL1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DL11 | £342,500 | +9% |
| DL8 | £290,000 | +3% |
| DL10 | £260,000 | +16% |
| DL7 | £255,000 | +6% |
| DL2 | £251,200 | +9% |
| DL6 | £245,000 | +2% |
| DL12 | £214,000 | -3% |
| DL5 | £180,000 | +14% |
| DL3 | £173,000 | +5% |
| DL9 | £156,600 | +5% |
| DL13 | £147,500 | +5% |
| DL1 (this report) | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL16 | £138,000 | +0% |
| DL14 | £126,000 | +15% |
| DL15 | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Selling in DL1? 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'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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DL1 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.