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Arksey market report DN5 8, Doncaster
The standing DN5 8 (Arksey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,915 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DN5 8 (Doncaster) 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 2026 median for DN5 8 (Doncaster) is £184,000, from 57 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £194,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,270 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,915 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DN5 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DN5 (Doncaster). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DN5 8 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.
DN5 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 57 registered 2026 sales in DN5 8 and the middle price, the median, is £184,000. The mean lands at £194,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DN5 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DN5 8 costs about £2,270 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DN5 8 runs 35% below it.
The price of a typical DN5 8 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 | £184,000 | £184,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £182,000 | £186,352 | 153 |
| 2024 | £181,000 | £192,440 | 127 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 152 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 124 |
| 2021 | £166,000 | £210,177 | 165 |
| 2020 | £149,000 | £193,331 | 134 |
| 2019 | £137,800 | £180,623 | 156 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 157 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 145 |
| 2016 | £126,000 | £176,275 | 118 |
| 2015 | £126,200 | £178,321 | 138 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 120 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 103 |
| 2012 | £117,000 | £172,209 | 131 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 119 |
| 2010 | £119,500 | £187,407 | 100 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 95 |
| 2008 | £120,500 | £197,525 | 110 |
| 2007 | £133,000 | £225,605 | 208 |
| 2006 | £121,500 | £210,908 | 238 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 177 |
| 2004 | £110,800 | £201,234 | 198 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 196 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 222 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 223 |
| 2000 | £43,500 | £85,369 | 184 |
| 1999 | £40,900 | £81,512 | 219 |
| 1998 | £42,800 | £86,395 | 162 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 186 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 138 |
| 1995 | £39,700 | £86,302 | 160 |
In cash terms the typical DN5 8 home went from £39,700 in 1995 to £184,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 113%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 18% 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 DN5 8 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 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.4%). 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) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 57 sales completed in DN5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 206 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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.
Rents around DN5 8
DN5 8 falls under Doncaster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £689 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £489 a month here against £1,070 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Doncaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£689 a month is £8,268 a year, which against the £184,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
The shape of the DN5 8 market
This is a thin market: 57 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.
Common questions on DN5 8 (Arksey)
Is DN5 8 (Arksey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DN5 8 (Arksey)?
Are property prices falling in DN5 8 (Arksey)?
Are DN5 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in DN5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 164 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DN5 district, not just DN5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 DN5 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DN area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DN 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 DN5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DN5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DN5 0 | £138,000 | 39 |
| DN5 7 | £312,500 | 56 |
| DN5 9 | £160,000 | 65 |
Zoom out to the full DN5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DN5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DN5 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DN5 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the DN5 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DN5 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DN5 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DN5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DN5 8 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.
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.