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Stanhope market report DL13 5, Bishop Auckland
The DL13 5 (Stanhope) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,597 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL13 5 (Bishop Auckland) 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: 22 registered 2026 sales put the DL13 5 (Bishop Auckland) median at £135,000, up 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £173,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,610 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,597 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DL13 5 is a single group of streets within DL13 (Bishop Auckland), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DL13 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.
The going rate for a home in DL13 5
In the DL13 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £135,000, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £173,600, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in DL13 5
By floor space, homes in DL13 5 have sold for about £1,610 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL13 5 53% below the country at large.
A typical DL13 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £117,500 | £120,310 | 59 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 43 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 37 |
| 2022 | £127,000 | £148,922 | 55 |
| 2021 | £105,000 | £132,944 | 57 |
| 2020 | £96,800 | £125,600 | 33 |
| 2019 | £80,000 | £104,861 | 45 |
| 2018 | £99,500 | £132,635 | 45 |
| 2017 | £68,500 | £93,427 | 42 |
| 2016 | £74,800 | £104,646 | 40 |
| 2015 | £84,800 | £119,822 | 54 |
| 2014 | £78,500 | £111,366 | 43 |
| 2013 | £74,500 | £107,198 | 36 |
| 2012 | £77,000 | £113,334 | 26 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 31 |
| 2010 | £97,000 | £152,121 | 35 |
| 2009 | £109,000 | £175,218 | 26 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 45 |
| 2007 | £99,500 | £168,780 | 64 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 78 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 73 |
| 2004 | £77,000 | £139,847 | 65 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 79 |
| 2002 | £39,500 | £74,319 | 86 |
| 2001 | £37,500 | £72,092 | 88 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 59 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 49 |
| 1998 | £35,800 | £72,265 | 52 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 43 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 49 |
| 1995 | £29,500 | £64,128 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical DL13 5 home went from £29,500 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 34% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL13 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 2004 (+71.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−19.6%). 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) | +14.9% | +12.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.1% | +2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in DL13 5
How many homes change hands
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, 22 sales completed in DL13 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 74 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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 DL13 5
DL13 5 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £135,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
The shape of the DL13 5 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL13 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. Within DL13, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about DL13 5 (Stanhope)
Are property prices falling in DL13 5 (Stanhope)?
Is DL13 5 (Stanhope) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL13 5 (Stanhope)?
Where do DL13 5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in DL13 right now
The live side of the market holds 65 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL13 district, not just DL13 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 8% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Bondisle Way, Stanhope, Stanhope Bishop Auckland
- St. Annes Drive, Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland
- Bleak Terrace, Cockfield, Cockfield Bishop Auckland
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DL13 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DL area. 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%) | — | — |
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DL13
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DL13, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL13 1 | £167,200 | 8 |
| DL13 2 | £135,000 | 13 |
| DL13 3 | £220,000 | 13 |
| DL13 4 | £97,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full DL13 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL13 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DL13 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL13 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL13 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL13 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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See every individual DL13 5 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.
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.