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Heighington market report DL5 6, Newton Aycliffe
The standing DL5 6 (Heighington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,233 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DL5 6 (Newton Aycliffe) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 middle 2026 sale in DL5 6 (Newton Aycliffe) came in at £277,500, out of 25 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £273,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,233 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like DL5 6 is a single group of streets within DL5 (Newton Aycliffe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DL5 6 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.
Today's DL5 6 prices, from the sold record
Take the 25 registered 2026 sales in DL5 6 and the middle price, the median, is £277,500. The mean lands at £273,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DL5 6
Per square metre, DL5 6 homes have averaged around £2,320 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DL5 6 trades 3% below the country as a whole.
A typical DL5 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £277,500 | £277,500 | 25 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 67 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 49 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 65 |
| 2022 | £268,000 | £314,261 | 67 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 135 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 96 |
| 2019 | £223,000 | £292,300 | 119 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 78 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 58 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 52 |
| 2015 | £191,200 | £270,166 | 70 |
| 2014 | £187,500 | £266,002 | 51 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 45 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 45 |
| 2011 | £171,500 | £258,899 | 37 |
| 2010 | £184,000 | £288,559 | 42 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 36 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 37 |
| 2007 | £213,800 | £362,664 | 63 |
| 2006 | £188,700 | £327,559 | 80 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 72 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 141 |
| 2003 | £153,000 | £281,863 | 177 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 101 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 70 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 74 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 67 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 53 |
| 1997 | £62,500 | £128,175 | 50 |
| 1996 | £62,800 | £132,442 | 54 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical DL5 6 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £277,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 120%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL5 6 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 2002 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 25 DL5 6 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 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around DL5 6
For renting purposes DL5 6 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £277,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.8%. 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.
Reading the DL5 6 market
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within DL5, this sector trades 54% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
DL5 6 (Heighington): the questions that come up
Is DL5 6 (Heighington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL5 6 (Heighington)?
Are property prices falling in DL5 6 (Heighington)?
Are DL5 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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 is for sale in DL5 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 114 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL5 district, not just DL5 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Washington Crescent, Newton Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe
- Heatherburn Court, Woodham, Woodham
- South View, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, Heighington Village
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 DL5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 5 | £115,000 | 19 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in DL5 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL5 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL5 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL5 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DL5 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL5 6.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL5 6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DL5 6 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.
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.