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Arksey market report DN5, Doncaster
The standing DN5 (Arksey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 18,857 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DN5 (Doncaster) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 217 registered 2026 sales put the DN5 (Doncaster) median at £180,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £215,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,120 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 18,857 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district DN5 covering Arksey, Barnburgh, Bentley sits in Doncaster. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DN5 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.
The going rate for a home in DN5
217 sales were registered in DN5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £180,000. The mean works out at £215,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in DN5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DN5 sales average about £2,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DN5 37% below the national figure.
A typical DN5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 217 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 561 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 493 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 479 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 490 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 612 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 536 |
| 2019 | £137,500 | £180,230 | 557 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 557 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 611 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 573 |
| 2015 | £121,600 | £171,821 | 551 |
| 2014 | £117,500 | £166,694 | 576 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 467 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 381 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 440 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 393 |
| 2009 | £118,000 | £189,686 | 376 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 412 |
| 2007 | £117,000 | £198,465 | 783 |
| 2006 | £112,000 | £194,418 | 837 |
| 2005 | £104,500 | £185,968 | 681 |
| 2004 | £93,500 | £169,814 | 763 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 921 |
| 2002 | £51,500 | £96,897 | 915 |
| 2001 | £44,500 | £85,549 | 833 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 665 |
| 1999 | £42,500 | £84,700 | 764 |
| 1998 | £41,700 | £84,174 | 636 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 651 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 573 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 553 |
In cash terms the typical DN5 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 110%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DN5 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 (+35.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.3%). 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, 50% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £330,000 against £116,600 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, DN5
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 | £315,000 | 57 | 4,265 |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 | 111 | 9,423 |
| Terraced | £117,500 | 45 | 4,826 |
| Flats | £116,600 (2025) | – | 317 |
What DN5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 453 DN5 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 800 sales a year before the financial crisis and 448 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
The local authority for DN5 is Doncaster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £689 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £489 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,070, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Doncaster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £689 a month (£8,268 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
What people ask about DN5 (Arksey)
How much did a house sell for in DN5 (Arksey)?
Are property prices falling in DN5 (Arksey)?
Is DN5 (Arksey) a good place to buy a house?
Will DN5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
On the market in DN5 today
Everything above is what homes in DN5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 164 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the DN5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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: DN prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DN5 ranks 12 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.
DN area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DN5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DN5 0 | £138,000 | 39 |
| DN5 7 | £312,500 | 56 |
| DN5 8 | £184,000 | 57 |
| DN5 9 | £160,000 | 65 |
How DN5 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 | £185,000 | +10% |
| DN2 | £181,500 | +10% |
| DN5 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in DN5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DN5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DN5.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every DN5 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.
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.