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Faverdale market report DL3 0, Darlington
The standing DL3 0 (Faverdale) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,443 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL3 0 (Darlington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 DL3 0 (Darlington) is £165,000, from 79 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £167,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,800 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,443 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like DL3 0 is a single group of streets within DL3 (Darlington), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DL3 0 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 DL3 0
79 sales were registered in DL3 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £165,000. The mean works out at £167,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
DL3 0 prices by floor area
A square metre of DL3 0 home has cost about £1,800 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL3 0 runs 42% below it.
DL3 0's median sold price, 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 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £152,500 | £156,147 | 175 |
| 2024 | £142,500 | £151,507 | 196 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 172 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 200 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 243 |
| 2020 | £128,200 | £166,342 | 194 |
| 2019 | £128,000 | £167,777 | 206 |
| 2018 | £128,500 | £171,293 | 216 |
| 2017 | £129,000 | £175,943 | 220 |
| 2016 | £124,000 | £173,477 | 209 |
| 2015 | £123,500 | £174,506 | 246 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 274 |
| 2013 | £111,200 | £160,006 | 198 |
| 2012 | £114,000 | £167,794 | 177 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 151 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 167 |
| 2009 | £115,500 | £185,667 | 144 |
| 2008 | £116,000 | £190,148 | 179 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 460 |
| 2006 | £114,500 | £198,757 | 371 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 305 |
| 2004 | £102,000 | £185,252 | 548 |
| 2003 | £81,000 | £149,222 | 543 |
| 2002 | £63,000 | £118,534 | 506 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 684 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 509 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 437 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 407 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 446 |
| 1996 | £46,700 | £98,488 | 330 |
| 1995 | £41,500 | £90,215 | 251 |
In cash terms the typical DL3 0 home went from £41,500 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 83%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL3 0 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−3.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.2% | +5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in DL3 0
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
DL3 0 recorded 79 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 491 sales a year before the financial crisis and 164 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 rental side of DL3 0
The local authority for DL3 0 is Darlington, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £676 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £165,000 median sold price, £676 a month is £8,112 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
DL3 0 (Faverdale): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DL3 0 (Faverdale)?
Is DL3 0 (Faverdale) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL3 0 (Faverdale)?
Will DL3 0 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.
DL3's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 124 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL3 district, not just DL3 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% 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.
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"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 DL3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DL
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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DL3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DL3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL3 6 | £104,500 | 48 |
| DL3 7 | £165,000 | 25 |
| DL3 8 | £290,000 | 47 |
| DL3 9 | £185,000 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full DL3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DL3 0? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL3 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL3 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL3 0 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 DL3 0.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL3 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DL3 0 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.