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Spennymoor market report DL16
The DL16 (Spennymoor) 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: 11,580 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL16 (Spennymoor) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DL16 (Spennymoor) sold for £138,000 in 2026, the median of 154 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £157,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,690 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,580 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district DL16 covering Spennymoor sits in Spennymoor. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DL16 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 a home in DL16 sells for
Across 154 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DL16 home went for £138,000. The mean is £157,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DL16
A square metre of DL16 home has cost about £1,690 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL16 52% below the country at large.
The price of a typical DL16 home, 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 | £138,000 | £138,000 | 154 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 331 |
| 2024 | £146,000 | £155,228 | 348 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 329 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 424 |
| 2021 | £138,000 | £174,726 | 581 |
| 2020 | £126,000 | £163,488 | 381 |
| 2019 | £127,000 | £166,467 | 381 |
| 2018 | £133,500 | £177,958 | 450 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 407 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 350 |
| 2015 | £117,000 | £165,321 | 362 |
| 2014 | £128,500 | £182,300 | 388 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 347 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 281 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 268 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 197 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 205 |
| 2008 | £112,000 | £183,592 | 229 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 481 |
| 2006 | £97,500 | £169,248 | 420 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 335 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 487 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 480 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 478 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 420 |
| 2000 | £51,000 | £100,088 | 370 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 380 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 379 |
| 1997 | £44,400 | £91,055 | 387 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 318 |
| 1995 | £36,800 | £79,998 | 232 |
In cash terms the typical DL16 home went from £36,800 in 1995 to £138,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 73%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL16 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 (+41.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−8.9%). 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, 38% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £220,000 against £105,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, DL16
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 | £240,000 | 34 | 3,289 |
| Semi-detached | £138,000 | 56 | 3,575 |
| Terraced | £105,000 | 63 | 4,410 |
| Flats | £105,000 (2025) | – | 292 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.8% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
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, 291 sales completed in DL16. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 434 sales a year before the financial crisis and 317 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around DL16
DL16 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £138,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on DL16 (Spennymoor)
How much did a house sell for in DL16 (Spennymoor)?
Are property prices falling in DL16 (Spennymoor)?
Is DL16 (Spennymoor) a good place to buy a house?
Will DL16 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 DL16 right now
Everything above is what homes in DL16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 130 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the DL16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Nelson Walk, Whitworth, Spennymoor
- Queens Park Road, Spennymoor, Spennymoor
- School Close, Spennymoor, Spennymoor, Durham
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 DL16 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
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
DL16 ranks 16 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.
DL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DL16, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DL16 6 | £138,000 | 87 |
| DL16 7 | £138,000 | 67 |
How DL16 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 (this report) | £138,000 | +0% |
| DL14 | £126,000 | +15% |
| DL15 | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Thinking of selling in DL16? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL16 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DL16: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL16.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DL16 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.
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.