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Shildon market report DL4 1
The DL4 1 (Shildon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,523 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL4 1 (Shildon) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in DL4 1 (Shildon) sold for £80,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, up 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £103,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,010 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,523 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DL4 1 is one sector of DL4 (Shildon): 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 DL4 1 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.
DL4 1 sold prices: where the market stands
23 sales were registered in DL4 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £80,000. The mean works out at £103,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in DL4 1
A square metre of DL4 1 home has cost about £1,010 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, DL4 1 runs 72% below it.
DL4 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £80,000 | £80,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £70,000 | £71,674 | 55 |
| 2024 | £77,000 | £81,867 | 61 |
| 2023 | £77,000 | £84,604 | 81 |
| 2022 | £82,500 | £96,741 | 60 |
| 2021 | £62,200 | £78,753 | 76 |
| 2020 | £58,000 | £75,256 | 63 |
| 2019 | £52,500 | £68,815 | 60 |
| 2018 | £70,000 | £93,311 | 66 |
| 2017 | £62,500 | £85,244 | 58 |
| 2016 | £58,800 | £82,262 | 74 |
| 2015 | £55,000 | £77,715 | 58 |
| 2014 | £56,200 | £79,730 | 56 |
| 2013 | £72,500 | £104,320 | 55 |
| 2012 | £66,000 | £97,144 | 55 |
| 2011 | £60,000 | £90,577 | 35 |
| 2010 | £67,500 | £105,857 | 56 |
| 2009 | £71,500 | £114,937 | 30 |
| 2008 | £77,000 | £126,219 | 64 |
| 2007 | £83,200 | £141,130 | 152 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 155 |
| 2005 | £70,600 | £125,640 | 140 |
| 2004 | £52,000 | £94,442 | 105 |
| 2003 | £39,000 | £71,847 | 177 |
| 2002 | £31,000 | £58,326 | 111 |
| 2001 | £31,500 | £60,557 | 98 |
| 2000 | £31,700 | £62,211 | 92 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 77 |
| 1998 | £28,000 | £56,520 | 79 |
| 1997 | £31,500 | £64,600 | 98 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 82 |
| 1995 | £27,900 | £60,650 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical DL4 1 home went from £27,900 in 1995 to £80,000 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 32%, 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 43% 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 DL4 1 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 2005 (+35.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−25.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL4 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.3% | +11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 23 sales completed in DL4 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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 DL4 1 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL4 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around DL4 1
For renting purposes DL4 1 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £80,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 9.6% 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.
DL4 1 (Shildon): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DL4 1 (Shildon)?
Are property prices falling in DL4 1 (Shildon)?
Is DL4 1 (Shildon) a good place to buy a house?
Will DL4 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in DL4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 48 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL4 district, not just DL4 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 DL4 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
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL4 2 | £92,200 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full DL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DL4 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL4 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL4 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL4 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL4 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DL4 1 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.