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Willington market report DL15, Crook
The DL15 (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: 11,383 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL15 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 126 registered 2026 sales put the DL15 (Crook) median at £118,400, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £149,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,470 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,383 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DL15 is the postcode district covering Crook, Willington in Crook. 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 DL15 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.
What buyers actually paid in DL15
Take the 126 registered 2026 sales in DL15 and the middle price, the median, is £118,400. The mean lands at £149,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DL15
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL15 costs about £1,470 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DL15 58% below the national figure.
DL15's median sold price, 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 | £118,400 | £118,400 | 126 |
| 2025 | £130,600 | £133,723 | 337 |
| 2024 | £108,000 | £114,826 | 312 |
| 2023 | £107,000 | £117,567 | 305 |
| 2022 | £115,000 | £134,851 | 325 |
| 2021 | £112,000 | £141,806 | 401 |
| 2020 | £105,000 | £136,240 | 311 |
| 2019 | £102,200 | £133,960 | 344 |
| 2018 | £90,800 | £121,038 | 366 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 344 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 343 |
| 2015 | £95,000 | £134,235 | 351 |
| 2014 | £103,000 | £146,123 | 298 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 250 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 217 |
| 2011 | £90,500 | £136,620 | 220 |
| 2010 | £97,200 | £152,435 | 234 |
| 2009 | £88,800 | £142,747 | 216 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 295 |
| 2007 | £109,000 | £184,894 | 679 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 645 |
| 2005 | £92,000 | £163,723 | 504 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 522 |
| 2003 | £58,500 | £107,771 | 680 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 578 |
| 2001 | £42,000 | £80,743 | 430 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 311 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 287 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 309 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 314 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 291 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 238 |
In cash terms the typical DL15 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £118,400 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 82%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL15 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 (+53.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−13.6%). 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, 49% of the typed total. In 2019, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £177,200 against £50,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, DL15
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 | £230,000 | 35 | 3,345 |
| Semi-detached | £114,400 | 24 | 2,300 |
| Terraced | £94,800 | 66 | 5,615 |
| Flats | £50,000 (2019) | – | 84 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.3% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DL15 recorded 264 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 544 sales a year before the financial crisis and 281 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 DL15 market
In its area's price order DL15 comes 15 of 17, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around DL15
For renting purposes DL15 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £118,400 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 6.5% 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.
Asked and answered: DL15 (Willington)
How much did a house sell for in DL15 (Willington)?
Are property prices falling in DL15 (Willington)?
Is DL15 (Willington) a good place to buy a house?
Are DL15 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 DL15 today
Everything above is what homes in DL15 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 108 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the DL15 median sold price.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
"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 DL15 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DL15 ranks 10 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.
Five-year change in the median, DL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DL15, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL15 0 | £120,000 | 55 |
| DL15 8 | £101,000 | 24 |
| DL15 9 | £121,000 | 47 |
How DL15 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 | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL16 | £138,000 | +0% |
| DL14 | £126,000 | +15% |
| DL15 (this report) | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Selling in DL15? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL15, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL15's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL15 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual DL15 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.