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Willington market report DL15 8, Crook
The DL15 8 (Willington) 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: 2,362 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL15 8 (Crook) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 24 registered 2026 sales put the DL15 8 (Crook) median at £101,000, down 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £145,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,450 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,362 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DL15 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DL15 (Crook). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DL15 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.
DL15 8 sold prices: where the market stands
24 sales were registered in DL15 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £101,000. The mean works out at £145,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
DL15 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DL15 8 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL15 8 65% below the country at large.
A typical DL15 8 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £101,000 | £101,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £105,000 | £107,511 | 68 |
| 2024 | £107,500 | £114,295 | 72 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 64 |
| 2022 | £91,000 | £106,708 | 78 |
| 2021 | £110,500 | £139,907 | 101 |
| 2020 | £90,200 | £117,036 | 73 |
| 2019 | £91,000 | £119,279 | 71 |
| 2018 | £82,500 | £109,974 | 87 |
| 2017 | £116,500 | £158,894 | 59 |
| 2016 | £94,500 | £132,206 | 64 |
| 2015 | £81,500 | £115,160 | 62 |
| 2014 | £85,200 | £120,871 | 56 |
| 2013 | £92,500 | £133,098 | 56 |
| 2012 | £111,000 | £163,378 | 41 |
| 2011 | £76,500 | £115,486 | 43 |
| 2010 | £84,000 | £131,734 | 32 |
| 2009 | £76,000 | £122,171 | 41 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 55 |
| 2007 | £107,500 | £182,350 | 151 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 135 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 80 |
| 2004 | £80,000 | £145,296 | 81 |
| 2003 | £57,600 | £106,113 | 168 |
| 2002 | £53,800 | £101,224 | 138 |
| 2001 | £44,800 | £86,126 | 124 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 52 |
| 1999 | £38,800 | £77,326 | 54 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 65 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 70 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 59 |
| 1995 | £27,000 | £58,694 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical DL15 8 home went from £27,000 in 1995 to £101,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 72%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 45% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL15 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 2012 (+45.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−29.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.8% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | 0.0% | −2.7% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 24 DL15 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 116 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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.
How DL15 8 trades
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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 DL15, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around DL15 8
DL15 8 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £447 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £982, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £101,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 7.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: DL15 8 (Willington)
Is DL15 8 (Willington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL15 8 (Willington)?
Are property prices falling in DL15 8 (Willington)?
Are DL15 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
DL15's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 108 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL15 district, not just DL15 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Plot 3 - Oakwood Court, Crook
- Larmouth Court, Willington, Crook
- Bainbridge Avenue, Willington, Crook
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 DL15 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. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the DL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL15
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL15's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL15 0 | £120,000 | 55 |
| DL15 9 | £121,000 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full DL15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL15 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DL15 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL15 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL15 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL15 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DL15 8.
Go deeper
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See every individual DL15 8 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.