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Faverdale market report DL3, Darlington
The DL3 (Faverdale) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 28,029 HM Land Registry entries for DL3 (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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DL3 (Darlington) came in at £173,000, out of 293 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £199,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 28,029 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DL3 is a postcode district covering Darlington (west), Faverdale, Coatham Mundeville in Darlington. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DL3 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 DL3 homes really sell for
293 sales were registered in DL3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £173,000. The mean works out at £199,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DL3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL3 costs about £1,920 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DL3 39% below the national figure.
DL3's median sold price, 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 | £173,000 | £173,000 | 293 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 611 |
| 2024 | £160,000 | £170,113 | 608 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 617 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 722 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 925 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £203,711 | 645 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 667 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 669 |
| 2017 | £156,000 | £212,768 | 735 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 733 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 764 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 785 |
| 2013 | £129,000 | £185,618 | 637 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 554 |
| 2011 | £130,800 | £197,458 | 542 |
| 2010 | £131,000 | £205,442 | 529 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 534 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 655 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 1,342 |
| 2006 | £119,500 | £207,437 | 1,220 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 961 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 1,363 |
| 2003 | £81,500 | £150,143 | 1,411 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 1,450 |
| 2001 | £63,000 | £121,114 | 1,594 |
| 2000 | £59,500 | £116,769 | 1,235 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 1,190 |
| 1998 | £53,400 | £107,792 | 1,033 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 1,203 |
| 1996 | £47,200 | £99,543 | 1,005 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 797 |
In cash terms the typical DL3 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £173,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 69%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DL3 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 (+35.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−7.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.6% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £300,000 against £107,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, DL3
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 | £300,000 | 47 | 4,871 |
| Semi-detached | £197,500 | 113 | 9,782 |
| Terraced | £115,000 | 103 | 10,859 |
| Flats | £107,500 | 30 | 2,517 |
Sales activity in DL3
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 511 DL3 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 1,322 sales a year before the financial crisis and 570 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.
Rents around DL3
DL3 falls under Darlington, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £676 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £173,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Common questions on DL3 (Faverdale)
How much did a house sell for in DL3 (Faverdale)?
Are property prices falling in DL3 (Faverdale)?
Is DL3 (Faverdale) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to DL3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in DL3 now
Everything above is what homes in DL3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 86 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 37% above the DL3 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (511 in DL3), the 86 homes listed here amount to about 2 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
7% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 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.
What is for sale against what sells in DL3
The mix on the market in DL3 matches the mix that changes hands, within 6 points for every type.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 21% | 15% |
| Semi-detached | 35% | 40% |
| Terraced | 30% | 34% |
| Flats | 14% | 12% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
When homes in DL3 change hands
Take the 3,483 DL3 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.2% of the total, April trails with 6.7%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 243 | 7.0% |
| February | 269 | 7.7% |
| March | 357 | 10.2% |
| April | 234 | 6.7% |
| May | 258 | 7.4% |
| June | 307 | 8.8% |
| July | 299 | 8.6% |
| August | 328 | 9.4% |
| September | 303 | 8.7% |
| October | 314 | 9.0% |
| November | 326 | 9.4% |
| December | 245 | 7.0% |
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. 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 | £182,250 | £201,997 (+11%) | £233,000 (+15%) | £298,000 (+28%) | £375,000 (+26%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £145,000 (0%) | £161,000 (+11%) | £205,000 (+27%) | £275,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £104,250 | £91,000 (-13%) | £103,999 (+14%) | £145,000 (+39%) | £240,000 (+66%) |
| Flat | £75,000 | £108,125 (+44%) | £182,500 (+69%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DL3 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, DL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DL3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DL3 0 | £165,500 | 98 |
| DL3 6 | £105,000 | 55 |
| DL3 7 | £215,000 | 29 |
| DL3 8 | £290,000 | 52 |
| DL3 9 | £185,000 | 59 |
How DL3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DL11 | £340,000 | +8% |
| DL8 | £289,000 | +2% |
| DL7 | £255,000 | +6% |
| DL2 | £252,500 | +10% |
| DL10 | £250,800 | +11% |
| DL6 | £243,800 | +2% |
| DL12 | £214,500 | -2% |
| DL5 | £174,000 | +10% |
| DL3 (this report) | £173,000 | +5% |
| DL9 | £160,000 | +7% |
| DL13 | £145,000 | +4% |
| DL16 | £145,000 | +5% |
| DL1 | £142,500 | +16% |
| DL14 | £125,500 | +14% |
| DL15 | £120,000 | +7% |
| DL17 | £105,000 | +17% |
| DL4 | £86,500 | +39% |
Selling in DL3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every DL3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.