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Staindrop market report DL2 1, Darlington
The standing DL2 1 (Staindrop) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,367 HM Land Registry entries for DL2 1 (Darlington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DL2 1 (Darlington) is £248,000, from 47 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £250,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,367 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DL2 1 is one sector of DL2 (Darlington): 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 DL2 1 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.
The going rate for a home in DL2 1
47 sales were registered in DL2 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £248,000. The mean works out at £250,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DL2 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DL2 1 sales average about £2,340 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DL2 1 13% below the national figure.
DL2 1'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 | £248,000 | £248,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 170 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 206 |
| 2023 | £236,200 | £259,526 | 144 |
| 2022 | £245,000 | £287,290 | 168 |
| 2021 | £227,500 | £288,044 | 209 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 153 |
| 2019 | £219,000 | £287,057 | 174 |
| 2018 | £218,000 | £290,598 | 170 |
| 2017 | £177,800 | £242,501 | 146 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 91 |
| 2015 | £216,000 | £305,208 | 100 |
| 2014 | £199,000 | £282,316 | 109 |
| 2013 | £188,000 | £270,513 | 91 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 57 |
| 2011 | £155,500 | £234,745 | 66 |
| 2010 | £177,500 | £278,366 | 95 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 79 |
| 2008 | £192,500 | £315,548 | 84 |
| 2007 | £175,500 | £297,697 | 166 |
| 2006 | £164,000 | £284,683 | 187 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 167 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 199 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 179 |
| 2002 | £107,000 | £201,320 | 195 |
| 2001 | £91,500 | £175,904 | 164 |
| 2000 | £86,800 | £170,345 | 164 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 151 |
| 1998 | £78,700 | £158,862 | 130 |
| 1997 | £71,100 | £145,812 | 104 |
| 1996 | £71,200 | £150,158 | 104 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical DL2 1 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £248,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 58%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL2 1 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 2003 (+40.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−17.3%). 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) | −4.6% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in DL2 1. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 147 sales a year recently, against 178 a year before 2008. 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 DL2 1
For renting purposes DL2 1 sits in Darlington. The ONS average private rent there is £676 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £487 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,074, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Darlington
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£676 a month is £8,112 a year, which against the £248,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
How DL2 1 trades
This is a thin market: 47 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What people ask about DL2 1 (Staindrop)
How much did a house sell for in DL2 1 (Staindrop)?
Are property prices falling in DL2 1 (Staindrop)?
Is DL2 1 (Staindrop) a good place to buy a house?
Will DL2 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
DL2's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 103 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL2 district, not just DL2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Lanes, Darlington, Darlington
- Smike Wynd, Darlington, Durham, DL2
- Hurworth Springs, Neasham Road, Hurworth, Darlington
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 DL2 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DL2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL2 2 | £258,000 | 59 |
| DL2 3 | £249,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full DL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DL2 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL2 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL2 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL2 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DL2 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL2 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DL2 1 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.