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Evenwood market report DL14 8, Bishop Auckland
The DL14 8 (Evenwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,395 registered sales in DL14 8 (Bishop Auckland) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DL14 8 (Bishop Auckland) came in at £87,000, out of 60 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £108,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,230 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,395 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DL14 8 is one sector of DL14 (Bishop Auckland): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DL14 8 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.
Today's DL14 8 prices, from the sold record
The DL14 8 median stands at £87,000 for 2026, built from 60 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £108,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in DL14 8
By floor space, homes in DL14 8 have sold for about £1,230 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DL14 8 69% below the national figure.
A typical DL14 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £87,000 | £87,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £110,000 | £112,630 | 125 |
| 2024 | £95,000 | £101,005 | 181 |
| 2023 | £74,500 | £81,857 | 168 |
| 2022 | £101,400 | £118,903 | 174 |
| 2021 | £78,500 | £99,391 | 154 |
| 2020 | £77,000 | £99,909 | 129 |
| 2019 | £58,000 | £76,024 | 117 |
| 2018 | £75,000 | £99,976 | 127 |
| 2017 | £80,200 | £109,385 | 172 |
| 2016 | £75,000 | £104,926 | 165 |
| 2015 | £70,000 | £98,910 | 150 |
| 2014 | £94,500 | £134,065 | 138 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 116 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 81 |
| 2011 | £84,500 | £127,563 | 72 |
| 2010 | £56,000 | £87,822 | 85 |
| 2009 | £70,000 | £112,526 | 83 |
| 2008 | £70,000 | £114,745 | 133 |
| 2007 | £72,500 | £122,980 | 243 |
| 2006 | £67,900 | £117,866 | 186 |
| 2005 | £50,000 | £88,980 | 192 |
| 2004 | £40,000 | £72,648 | 266 |
| 2003 | £35,000 | £64,478 | 183 |
| 2002 | £33,000 | £62,089 | 161 |
| 2001 | £19,200 | £36,911 | 150 |
| 2000 | £32,200 | £63,193 | 96 |
| 1999 | £35,800 | £71,348 | 70 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 107 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 97 |
| 1996 | £25,000 | £52,724 | 97 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical DL14 8 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £87,000 in 2026, roughly 2.5 times the price. Strip out inflation, though, and the change is small: about 13% in real terms. Most of the cash growth is money losing value rather than homes gaining it. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2012; the current median sits about 46% below that. Someone who bought at the 2012 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL14 8 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 2002 (+71.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−40.4%). 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 year (since 2025) | −20.9% | −22.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.1% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 60 sales completed in DL14 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 142 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.
Reading the DL14 8 market
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 DL14, this sector trades 31% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around DL14 8
DL14 8 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.
Against the £87,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 8.8% 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.
DL14 8 (Evenwood): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DL14 8 (Evenwood)?
Are property prices falling in DL14 8 (Evenwood)?
Is DL14 8 (Evenwood) a good place to buy a house?
Are DL14 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
On the market in DL14 today
Turning to what is actually available: 189 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL14 district, not just DL14 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Murphy Crescent, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland
- York Court, Witton Park, Witton Park Bishop Auckland, County Durham
- Croft Terrace, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland
"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 DL14 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs 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 | £182,250 | £201,997 (+11%) | £233,000 (+15%) | £298,000 (+28%) | £375,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 (0%) | £161,000 (+11%) | £205,000 (+27%) | £275,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £104,250 | £91,000 (-13%) | £103,999 (+14%) | £145,000 (+39%) | £240,000 (+66%) |
| Flat | £75,000 | £108,125 (+44%) | £182,500 (+69%) | — | — |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DL14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL14 0 | £146,500 | 40 |
| DL14 6 | £142,500 | 71 |
| DL14 7 | £130,000 | 38 |
| DL14 9 | £115,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full DL14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL14 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DL14 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL14 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL14 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL14 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL14 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DL14 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.