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Staindrop market report DL2 3, Darlington
The DL2 3 (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: 1,898 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL2 3 (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: the middle 2026 sale in DL2 3 (Darlington) came in at £249,500, out of 24 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £255,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,898 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DL2 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DL2 (Darlington). 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 DL2 3 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.
DL2 3 sold prices: where the market stands
24 sales were registered in DL2 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £249,500. The mean works out at £255,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DL2 3
Per square metre, DL2 3 homes have averaged around £2,260 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL2 3 runs 12% below it.
A typical DL2 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £249,500 | £249,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 58 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 59 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 37 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 59 |
| 2021 | £225,000 | £284,879 | 87 |
| 2020 | £181,000 | £234,851 | 60 |
| 2019 | £208,500 | £273,294 | 56 |
| 2018 | £187,000 | £249,275 | 49 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 55 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 59 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 69 |
| 2014 | £219,000 | £310,690 | 52 |
| 2013 | £166,000 | £238,857 | 49 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 43 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 39 |
| 2010 | £156,200 | £244,962 | 46 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 36 |
| 2008 | £213,000 | £349,152 | 39 |
| 2007 | £169,000 | £286,671 | 68 |
| 2006 | £164,000 | £284,683 | 85 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 61 |
| 2004 | £166,000 | £301,488 | 68 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 93 |
| 2002 | £91,500 | £172,156 | 108 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 92 |
| 2000 | £97,000 | £190,363 | 84 |
| 1999 | £76,500 | £152,461 | 47 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 63 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 56 |
| 1996 | £59,900 | £126,326 | 53 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 44 |
In cash terms the typical DL2 3 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £249,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 109%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL2 3 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 (+36.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.8%). 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) | +5.1% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 24 DL2 3 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 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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.
The shape of the DL2 3 market
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.
The rental side of DL2 3
The local authority for DL2 3 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £249,500 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
What people ask about DL2 3 (Staindrop)
Is DL2 3 (Staindrop) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL2 3 (Staindrop)?
Are property prices falling in DL2 3 (Staindrop)?
Are DL2 3 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 DL2 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: DL prices by size
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £258,000 | 59 |
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 3: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL2 3'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DL2 3.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual DL2 3 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.
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.