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Staindrop market report DL2 2, Darlington
The DL2 2 (Staindrop) 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: 4,571 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL2 2 (Darlington) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 59 registered 2026 sales put the DL2 2 (Darlington) median at £258,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £269,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,430 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,571 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DL2 2 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 2 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 DL2 2 sells for
59 sales were registered in DL2 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £258,000. The mean works out at £269,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DL2 2
The last five years of sales put DL2 2 at roughly £2,430 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL2 2 runs 9% below it.
The price of a typical DL2 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £258,000 | £258,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 285 |
| 2024 | £241,400 | £256,658 | 244 |
| 2023 | £254,800 | £279,963 | 234 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 389 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 349 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 177 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 141 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 106 |
| 2017 | £178,000 | £242,774 | 105 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 122 |
| 2015 | £192,500 | £272,003 | 127 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 131 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 118 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 114 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 101 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 120 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 107 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 162 |
| 2007 | £208,500 | £353,674 | 205 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 159 |
| 2005 | £177,000 | £314,989 | 172 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 113 |
| 2003 | £148,500 | £273,573 | 84 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 107 |
| 2001 | £102,000 | £196,090 | 71 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 80 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 83 |
| 1998 | £79,500 | £160,476 | 70 |
| 1997 | £73,500 | £150,734 | 90 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 83 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical DL2 2 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £258,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 77%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL2 2 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 (+24.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL2 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.5% | +5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DL2 2
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.
The register shows 59 DL2 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 242 sales a year over the last five years against 124 before the financial crisis. 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 kind of market DL2 2 is
This is a thin market: 59 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 homes rent for around DL2 2
For renting purposes DL2 2 sits in Darlington. The ONS average private rent there is £676 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £487 a month here against £1,074 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £258,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. 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.
DL2 2 (Staindrop): the questions that come up
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What happens to DL2 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% 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 DL2 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 103 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL2 district, not just DL2 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"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 DL2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DL area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
DL area districts: five years of change
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 1 | £248,000 | 47 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in DL2 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL2 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DL2 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL2 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DL2 2 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.