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Balby market report DN4, Doncaster
The DN4 (Balby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 29,323 registered sales in DN4 (Doncaster) 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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for DN4 (Doncaster) is £185,000, from 289 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £211,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,080 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 29,323 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DN4 is a postcode district covering Balby, Belle Vue, Bessacarr in Doncaster. 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 DN4 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 DN4 sells for
The DN4 median stands at £185,000 for 2026, built from 289 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £211,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in DN4
By floor space, homes in DN4 have sold for about £2,080 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DN4 35% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DN4 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 | £185,000 | £185,000 | 289 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 792 |
| 2024 | £181,500 | £192,972 | 689 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 666 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 1,052 |
| 2021 | £168,000 | £212,710 | 1,070 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 753 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 838 |
| 2018 | £140,000 | £186,623 | 879 |
| 2017 | £148,000 | £201,857 | 943 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 936 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 874 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 766 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 703 |
| 2012 | £122,500 | £180,305 | 566 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 560 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 470 |
| 2009 | £118,000 | £189,686 | 533 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 629 |
| 2007 | £123,200 | £208,982 | 1,346 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 1,367 |
| 2005 | £98,000 | £174,401 | 1,294 |
| 2004 | £113,000 | £205,230 | 1,443 |
| 2003 | £79,000 | £145,537 | 1,695 |
| 2002 | £52,500 | £98,778 | 1,522 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 1,292 |
| 2000 | £48,500 | £95,181 | 1,127 |
| 1999 | £46,500 | £92,672 | 1,054 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 935 |
| 1997 | £41,200 | £84,493 | 817 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 735 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 688 |
In cash terms the typical DN4 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £185,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DN4 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 (+50.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £282,500 against £107,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, DN4
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 | £282,500 | 94 | 8,788 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 101 | 9,810 |
| Terraced | £125,000 | 65 | 8,903 |
| Flats | £107,500 | 29 | 1,822 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in DN4
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DN4 recorded 634 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,386 sales a year before the financial crisis and 698 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.
Rents around DN4
DN4 falls under Doncaster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £689 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £489 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,070 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Doncaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £185,000 median purchase price, a rent of £689 a month (£8,268 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Asked and answered: DN4 (Balby)
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Where do DN4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in DN4 now
Everything above is what homes in DN4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 231 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% above the DN4 median sold price.
34% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Primrose Place, Doncaster, Doncaster
- Great Central Avenue, Balby, Doncaster
- The Hollows, Bessacarr, Doncaster, DN4, Doncaster
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every DN4 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £210,000 | £282,972 (+35%) | £405,000 (+43%) | £520,000 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 | £158,000 (+9%) | £178,000 (+13%) | £245,000 (+38%) | £312,500 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £117,000 | £110,000 (-6%) | £116,000 (+5%) | £165,000 (+42%) | £265,000 (+61%) |
| Flat | £90,000 | £105,500 (+17%) | £145,000 (+37%) | — | — |
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
DN4 ranks 16 of 32 in the DN 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 DN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DN4, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DN4 0 | £122,500 | 34 |
| DN4 5 | £185,000 | 62 |
| DN4 6 | £195,000 | 60 |
| DN4 7 | £235,000 | 47 |
| DN4 8 | £157,000 | 42 |
| DN4 9 | £181,500 | 44 |
How DN4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DN38 | £299,000 | +46% |
| DN10 | £295,000 | +26% |
| DN9 | £268,500 | +8% |
| DN39 | £241,500 | -10% |
| DN19 | £232,000 | +16% |
| DN36 | £227,500 | +6% |
| DN41 | £227,500 | +8% |
| DN14 | £220,000 | +10% |
| DN37 | £220,000 | +22% |
| DN11 | £200,000 | +6% |
| DN22 | £200,000 | +0% |
| DN20 | £195,000 | -2% |
| DN3 | £191,500 | +18% |
| DN18 | £190,000 | +12% |
| DN4 (this report) | £185,000 | +10% |
| DN2 | £181,500 | +10% |
| DN5 | £180,000 | +13% |
| DN33 | £180,000 | +6% |
| DN7 | £175,000 | +9% |
| DN21 | £173,500 | +7% |
| DN17 | £170,000 | +6% |
| DN6 | £160,000 | +9% |
| DN15 | £160,000 | +14% |
| DN16 | £160,000 | +17% |
Selling a home in DN4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DN4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DN4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DN4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.