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Stanhope market report DL13, Bishop Auckland
The DL13 (Stanhope) 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: 6,572 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL13 (Bishop Auckland) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical DL13 (Bishop Auckland) home changed hands for £147,500 in 2026 (median of 70 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £181,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,790 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,572 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DL13 is the postcode district covering Stanhope, Frosterley, Wolsingham in Bishop Auckland. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where DL13 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.
DL13 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 70 registered 2026 sales in DL13 and the middle price, the median, is £147,500. The mean lands at £181,600, 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
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL13 costs about £1,790 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 DL13 48% below the country at large.
DL13'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 | £147,500 | £147,500 | 70 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 220 |
| 2024 | £165,500 | £175,960 | 196 |
| 2023 | £150,500 | £165,363 | 166 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 191 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 269 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 157 |
| 2019 | £119,000 | £155,981 | 183 |
| 2018 | £119,500 | £159,296 | 182 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 208 |
| 2016 | £112,500 | £157,389 | 200 |
| 2015 | £101,500 | £143,420 | 210 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 191 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 142 |
| 2012 | £96,500 | £142,036 | 136 |
| 2011 | £118,100 | £178,286 | 134 |
| 2010 | £122,500 | £192,112 | 168 |
| 2009 | £121,000 | £194,509 | 126 |
| 2008 | £133,800 | £219,326 | 190 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 289 |
| 2006 | £114,400 | £198,584 | 288 |
| 2005 | £105,200 | £187,214 | 222 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 262 |
| 2003 | £69,000 | £127,115 | 315 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 341 |
| 2001 | £44,600 | £85,741 | 274 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 254 |
| 1999 | £41,000 | £81,711 | 247 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 212 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 201 |
| 1996 | £36,100 | £76,133 | 170 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical DL13 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £147,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 91%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL13 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 (+37.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−18.3%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 55% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £340,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, DL13
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 | £268,000 | 13 | 1,683 |
| Semi-detached | £196,500 | 16 | 1,192 |
| Terraced | £113,700 | 40 | 3,566 |
| Flats | £125,000 (2025) | – | 78 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.8% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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.
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 164 sales completed in DL13. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 281 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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
For renting purposes DL13 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £147,500 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
What people ask about DL13 (Stanhope)
Are property prices falling in DL13 (Stanhope)?
Is DL13 (Stanhope) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL13 (Stanhope)?
Are DL13 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 DL13 today
Everything above is what homes in DL13 sold for. The live side of the market holds 65 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 42% above the DL13 median sold price.
8% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bondisle Way, Stanhope, Stanhope Bishop Auckland
- St. Annes Drive, Wolsingham, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland
- Bleak Terrace, Cockfield, Cockfield Bishop Auckland
"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 DL13 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
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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
DL13 ranks 11 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.
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.
Inside DL13, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DL13 1 | £167,200 | 8 |
| DL13 2 | £135,000 | 13 |
| DL13 3 | £220,000 | 13 |
| DL13 4 | £97,000 | 14 |
| DL13 5 | £135,000 | 22 |
How DL13 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 (this report) | £147,500 | +5% |
| DL1 | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL16 | £138,000 | +0% |
| DL14 | £126,000 | +15% |
| DL15 | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Before you sell in DL13: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL13, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL13 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL13 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every DL13 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.
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.