DA1 house prices are built from 31,510 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £181,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +29.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -6.9%.
Median price paid
£181,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+29.9%
Change in real terms
-6.9%
Median per m²
£2,640
HM Land Registry31,510 sales6,287 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How DA1 prices moved
The chart tracks the median DA1 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £57,000 | £126,567 |
| 2000s | 10 | £148,000 | £269,612 |
| 2010s | 10 | £215,000 | £303,150 |
| 2020s | 7 | £340,000 | £347,391 |
The highest yearly median on record for DA1 is £370,000 in 2025; the lowest is £53,750 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,750 to £356,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,350, so the real change over the whole record is +198.3% — about +3.59% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +29.9% in cash against -6.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203A Maiden Lane | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 80 Priory Road | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £585,000 | £585,000 |
| 13 Brandon Road | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 1 Heathlands Rise | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £495,000 | £495,000 |
| 171 Crayford Way | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £382,500 | £382,500 |
| 9 Ruby Tuesday Drive | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| 5 Hayward Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £294,000 | £294,000 |
| FLAT 19 ORMEROD POINT, 39 Ruby Tuesday Drive | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £229,000 | £229,000 |
| 12 Critchley Avenue | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £227,500 | £227,500 |
| 13 Broomhill Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £522,500 | £522,500 |
| 17 Heathlee Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £378,000 | £378,000 |
| 24 Tyndal Way | 10 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 91 Shepherds Lane | 3 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £645,000 | £645,000 |
| 37 Heath Lane | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 3 Oakfield Park Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 41 Vale Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| 8 Cavell Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 80 Littlebrook Manorway | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 176 William Mundy Way | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 21 Sussex Road | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 55 Great Queen Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £317,000 | £317,000 |
| 17 Cavell Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 25 Howard Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £293,000 | £293,000 |
| FLAT 10 NEEDHAM LODGE, 6 Durrell Dene | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 4 SWALLOWS COURT Vickers Lane | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £122,500 | £122,500 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to DA1 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203A Maiden Lane | £412,500 (2025) | £425,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.8% |
| 80 Priory Road | £89,995 (2000) | £585,000 (2026) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 13 Brandon Road | £168,000 (2012) | £360,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.6% |
| 5 Hayward Close | £76,000 (2000) | £294,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 1 Heathlands Rise | £164,500 (2001) | £495,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 12 Critchley Avenue | £178,000 (2008) | £227,500 (2026) | +1.4% | -1.5% |
| 171 Crayford Way | £60,000 (1996) | £382,500 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 19 ORMEROD POINT, 39 Ruby Tuesday Drive | £233,000 (2023) | £229,000 (2026) | -0.6% | -3.1% |
| 9 Ruby Tuesday Drive | £274,995 (2016) | £350,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.9% |
| 17 Heathlee Road | £127,995 (2002) | £378,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 24 Tyndal Way | £357,500 (2018) | £445,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.8% |
| 3 Oakfield Park Road | £84,500 (1997) | £460,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. DA1 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 13,928 | 44.2% | £182,000 | £800 – £1,175,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8,510 | 27.0% | £140,000 | £2,000 – £1,198,494 |
| Semi-detached | 7,527 | 23.9% | £211,000 | £13,000 – £825,000 |
| Detached | 1,545 | 4.9% | £325,000 | £17,000 – £1,400,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in DA1
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,765 certificates cover DA1, and their median floor area is 70 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 70 m² | about 753 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 54 m² | about 581 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 85 m² | about 915 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 32.8% | 2,220 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 1.6% | 111 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in DA1
8,733 of the sales on record are leasehold and 22,777 freehold — 27.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £138,995 and the median freehold sale £200,000 — a gap of +43.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 8,733 | 27.7% | £138,995 |
| Freehold | 22,777 | 72.3% | £200,000 |
| New build | 4,379 | 13.9% | £245,000 |
| Existing home | 27,131 | 86.1% | £170,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +44.1%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 2,051 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in DA1
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bexley, 40.7% of 110,275 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 312 | 0.3% |
| B | 9,223 | 8.4% |
| C | 35,313 | 32.0% |
| D | 46,026 | 41.7% |
| E | 16,045 | 14.5% |
| F | 2,675 | 2.4% |
| G | 681 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bexley at £1,531 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,223 for a one-bedroom home and £1,858 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £181,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.15% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DA1, 329 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 110 violent, 4 burglary, 20 vehicle-related and 64 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.
Against the 246,472 residents the 2021 census counted in Bexley, that is 1.33 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around DA1
The 2021 census counted 246,472 residents in Bexley across 95,300 households. 70.0% of those households own their home and 30.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a DA1 postcode: 14 primary, 6 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,576 |
| Sir Geoffrey Leigh Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,318 |
| Dartford Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,257 |
| Haberdashers' Crayford Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,078 |
| Dartford Science & Technology College | Secondary | Foundation school | 857 |
| Temple Hill Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 850 |
| Oakfield Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 716 |
| Leigh UTC Dartford | Secondary | University technical college | 691 |
| Leigh Academy Dartford | Primary | Academy converter | 670 |
| Wentworth Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 649 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dartford Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Crayford Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Slade Green Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Barnehurst Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
Section 09
How DA1 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. DA1 sits above that national figure — +14.9%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,640 per square metre, across 6,287 of the 31,510 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £800 to £1,400,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
DA1 sits in Bexley, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bexley at 12.2 times median local earnings of £35,187 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside DA1
- DA1 1£157,000 median
- DA1 2£182,000 median
- DA1 3£205,000 median
- DA1 4£168,000 median
- DA1 5£200,000 median
The closest districts
- DA22.4 km · £205,000
- DA94.7 km · £187,500
- DA74.8 km · £225,000
- BR86.0 km · £206,000
- DA167.4 km · £209,500
- DA157.8 km · £222,000
- RM158.2 km · £160,000
- RM138.6 km · £200,000
This district mostly covers Dartford.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in DA1?
The median price paid in DA1 across every sale on the register is £181,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in DA1?
31,510 sales are on record for DA1, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have DA1 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +29.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -6.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were DA1 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £370,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in DA1?
£2,640 per square metre, from the 6,287 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “DA1 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.