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Staindrop market report DL2, Darlington
The DL2 (Staindrop) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,836 HM Land Registry entries for DL2 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DL2 (Darlington) came in at £251,200, out of 130 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £260,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,380 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,836 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district DL2 covering Staindrop, Gainford, Darlington new estates sits in Darlington. 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 DL2 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 DL2 homes really sell for
130 sales were registered in DL2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £251,200. The mean works out at £260,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DL2
By floor space, homes in DL2 have sold for about £2,380 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DL2 trades 12% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DL2 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 | £251,200 | £251,200 | 130 |
| 2025 | £246,000 | £251,883 | 513 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 509 |
| 2023 | £249,800 | £274,469 | 415 |
| 2022 | £260,500 | £305,466 | 616 |
| 2021 | £230,000 | £291,210 | 645 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 390 |
| 2019 | £207,500 | £271,983 | 371 |
| 2018 | £212,500 | £283,267 | 325 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 306 |
| 2016 | £186,500 | £260,915 | 272 |
| 2015 | £197,500 | £279,068 | 296 |
| 2014 | £198,500 | £281,607 | 292 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 258 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 214 |
| 2011 | £170,500 | £257,389 | 206 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 261 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 222 |
| 2008 | £183,000 | £299,976 | 285 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 439 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 431 |
| 2005 | £173,700 | £309,116 | 400 |
| 2004 | £168,500 | £306,029 | 380 |
| 2003 | £143,200 | £263,809 | 356 |
| 2002 | £105,500 | £198,497 | 410 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 327 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 328 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 281 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 263 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 250 |
| 1996 | £65,600 | £138,347 | 240 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 205 |
In cash terms the typical DL2 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £251,200 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 75%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 24% 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 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 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.2%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £310,000 against £97,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, DL2
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 | £310,000 | 57 | 4,866 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 37 | 2,920 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 31 | 2,621 |
| Flats | £97,500 | 5 | 419 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DL2
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
DL2 recorded 318 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 437 sales a year over the last five years against 384 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 tenants pay around DL2
For renting purposes DL2 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.
Against the £251,200 median purchase price, a rent of £676 a month (£8,112 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
The shape of the DL2 market
Among the 17 measurable districts of its area, DL2 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on DL2 (Staindrop)
Are property prices falling in DL2 (Staindrop)?
Is DL2 (Staindrop) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL2 (Staindrop)?
Will DL2 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
Everything above is what homes in DL2 sold for. The live side of the market holds 103 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the DL2 median sold price.
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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in DL: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DL2 ranks 7 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.
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.
Inside DL2, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL2 1 | £248,000 | 47 |
| DL2 2 | £258,000 | 59 |
| DL2 3 | £249,500 | 24 |
How DL2 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 (this report) | £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 | £118,400 | +6% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £85,000 | +37% |
Selling in DL2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DL2'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.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual DL2 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.
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.