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Shildon market report DL4
The DL4 (Shildon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,226 registered sales in DL4 (Shildon) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in DL4 (Shildon) sold for £85,000 in 2026, the median of 67 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier. The mean was £112,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,070 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,226 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DL4 is a postcode district covering Shildon in Shildon. 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 DL4 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 a home in DL4 sells for
Take the 67 registered 2026 sales in DL4 and the middle price, the median, is £85,000. The mean lands at £112,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in DL4
A square metre of DL4 home has cost about £1,070 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 runs 70% below it.
The price of a typical DL4 home, 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 | £85,000 | £85,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £80,000 | £81,913 | 122 |
| 2024 | £76,000 | £80,804 | 149 |
| 2023 | £75,500 | £82,956 | 162 |
| 2022 | £75,500 | £88,532 | 165 |
| 2021 | £62,200 | £78,753 | 168 |
| 2020 | £64,500 | £83,690 | 155 |
| 2019 | £65,000 | £85,199 | 157 |
| 2018 | £84,500 | £112,640 | 146 |
| 2017 | £62,800 | £85,653 | 140 |
| 2016 | £68,000 | £95,133 | 159 |
| 2015 | £66,400 | £93,823 | 163 |
| 2014 | £70,000 | £99,307 | 141 |
| 2013 | £63,000 | £90,651 | 123 |
| 2012 | £65,500 | £96,408 | 84 |
| 2011 | £58,000 | £87,558 | 77 |
| 2010 | £70,000 | £109,778 | 114 |
| 2009 | £70,000 | £112,526 | 69 |
| 2008 | £75,000 | £122,941 | 137 |
| 2007 | £80,000 | £135,702 | 312 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 375 |
| 2005 | £69,000 | £122,792 | 278 |
| 2004 | £52,000 | £94,442 | 230 |
| 2003 | £35,000 | £64,478 | 316 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 215 |
| 2001 | £29,500 | £56,712 | 161 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 151 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 121 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 145 |
| 1997 | £28,500 | £58,448 | 161 |
| 1996 | £28,000 | £59,051 | 146 |
| 1995 | £26,000 | £56,520 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical DL4 home went from £26,000 in 1995 to £85,000 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 50%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 37% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL4 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 2004 (+48.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−23.1%). 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) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.4% | +1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
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, 67% of the typed total. In 2005, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £133,500 against £55,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, DL4
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 | £230,000 | 11 | 693 |
| Semi-detached | £107,500 | 20 | 1,018 |
| Terraced | £70,000 | 35 | 3,461 |
| Flats | £55,000 (2005) | – | 7 |
The turnover behind the prices
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DL4 recorded 125 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 255 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 a year over the last five. 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 DL4
The local authority for DL4 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £85,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 9.0%: 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.
How DL4 trades
Only 125 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL4 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. DL4 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What people ask about DL4 (Shildon)
Are property prices falling in DL4 (Shildon)?
Is DL4 (Shildon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL4 (Shildon)?
What happens to DL4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% 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.
DL4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DL4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 48 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the DL4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 →
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DL4 ranks 1 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 DL4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DL4 1 | £80,000 | 23 |
| DL4 2 | £92,200 | 44 |
How DL4 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 | £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 (this report) | £85,000 | +37% |
Selling in DL4? 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 DL4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every DL4 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.
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.