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Heighington market report DL5 5, Newton Aycliffe
The DL5 5 (Heighington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,267 registered sales in DL5 5 (Newton Aycliffe) 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.
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 DL5 5 (Newton Aycliffe) sold for £115,000 in 2026, the median of 19 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £111,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,350 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,267 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DL5 5 is one sector of DL5 (Newton Aycliffe): 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 DL5 5 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 DL5 5 homes really sell for
In the DL5 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £115,000, from 19 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £111,700, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DL5 5
Per square metre, DL5 5 homes have averaged around £1,350 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL5 5 60% below the country at large.
A typical DL5 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £115,000 | £115,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 69 |
| 2024 | £110,000 | £116,953 | 59 |
| 2023 | £113,000 | £124,159 | 50 |
| 2022 | £105,000 | £123,124 | 73 |
| 2021 | £104,000 | £131,677 | 71 |
| 2020 | £91,000 | £118,074 | 58 |
| 2019 | £85,000 | £111,415 | 59 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 93 |
| 2017 | £96,000 | £130,934 | 95 |
| 2016 | £96,500 | £135,004 | 82 |
| 2015 | £82,500 | £116,573 | 58 |
| 2014 | £83,000 | £117,750 | 57 |
| 2013 | £85,000 | £122,307 | 58 |
| 2012 | £83,000 | £122,166 | 51 |
| 2011 | £77,400 | £116,844 | 38 |
| 2010 | £80,000 | £125,461 | 47 |
| 2009 | £76,500 | £122,974 | 48 |
| 2008 | £85,000 | £139,333 | 61 |
| 2007 | £95,000 | £161,146 | 111 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 99 |
| 2005 | £82,000 | £145,927 | 101 |
| 2004 | £76,000 | £138,031 | 104 |
| 2003 | £55,500 | £102,244 | 100 |
| 2002 | £44,400 | £83,538 | 110 |
| 2001 | £38,000 | £73,053 | 88 |
| 2000 | £36,800 | £72,220 | 68 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 67 |
| 1998 | £36,800 | £74,283 | 68 |
| 1997 | £35,500 | £72,803 | 67 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 75 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical DL5 5 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £115,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 56%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL5 5 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 (+36.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−15.0%). 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) | −4.2% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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, 19 sales completed in DL5 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 98 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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 DL5 5 market
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL5 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within DL5, this sector trades 36% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around DL5 5
The local authority for DL5 5 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £447 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £982, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £115,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.
DL5 5 (Heighington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DL5 5 (Heighington)?
Are property prices falling in DL5 5 (Heighington)?
Is DL5 5 (Heighington) a good place to buy a house?
Will DL5 5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in DL5 now
The live side of the market holds 114 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL5 district, not just DL5 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Washington Crescent, Newton Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe
- Heatherburn Court, Woodham, Woodham
- South View, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, Heighington Village
"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 DL5 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
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL5 4 | £200,000 | 46 |
| DL5 6 | £277,500 | 25 |
| DL5 7 | £155,100 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full DL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DL5 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL5 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL5 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL5 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DL5 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL5 5.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DL5 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DL5 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.