Eastbourne Road, Darlington house prices are built from 263 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 5 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £65,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +33.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.4%.
Median price paid
£65,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+33.3%
Change in real terms
-3.4%
Median per m²
£833
HM Land Registry263 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Eastbourne Road, Darlington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Eastbourne Road, Darlington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £35,000 | £77,717 |
| 2000s | 9 | £68,125 | £124,104 |
| 2010s | 8 | £73,000 | £102,930 |
| 2020s | 3 | £110,000 | £112,391 |
The highest yearly median on record for Eastbourne Road, Darlington is £115,000 in 2021; the lowest is £29,000 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £35,000 to £110,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £77,717, so the real change over the whole record is +44.6% — about +1.24% 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: +33.3% in cash against -3.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | 5 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| 3 | 5 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £67,000 | £68,457 |
| 52 | 7 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 132 | 2 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £142,000 | £145,087 |
| 139 | 26 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £108,000 | £110,348 |
| 86 | 12 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 21 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £72,500 | £74,076 |
| 124 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 87 | 29 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £87,500 | £89,402 |
| 136 | 28 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £126,500 | £133,108 |
| 183a | 17 May 2024 | Detached | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 82 | 21 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £123,000 | £129,425 |
| 62 | 1 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £99,000 | £104,172 |
| 154 | 17 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £92,500 | £99,943 |
| 5 | 10 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £99,950 | £107,992 |
| 34 | 12 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £87,000 | £100,797 |
| 154 | 22 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £92,500 | £107,169 |
| 65 | 28 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £59,000 | £68,357 |
| 42 | 22 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £67,000 | £84,651 |
| 95 | 10 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £98,500 | £124,449 |
| 126 | 3 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £145,296 |
| 124 | 2 Jul 2021 | Detached | £218,500 | £276,062 |
| 165 | 15 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 68 | 5 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £74,000 | £93,495 |
| 130 | 18 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £118,750 | £150,034 |
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 Eastbourne Road, Darlington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Eastbourne Road | £29,500 (2002) | £67,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| 157 Eastbourne Road | £118,000 (2010) | £195,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 52 Eastbourne Road | £36,500 (2002) | £110,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 132 Eastbourne Road | £121,000 (2020) | £142,000 (2025) | +3.3% | -1.5% |
| 139 Eastbourne Road | £81,500 (2006) | £108,000 (2025) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 21 Eastbourne Road | £44,500 (2002) | £72,500 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.6% |
| 124 Eastbourne Road | £120,500 (2007) | £270,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.5% |
| 87 Eastbourne Road | £50,000 (2017) | £87,500 (2025) | +7.2% | +3.5% |
| 136 Eastbourne Road | £40,000 (1995) | £126,500 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 82 Eastbourne Road | £66,000 (2020) | £123,000 (2024) | +16.8% | +10.9% |
| 62 Eastbourne Road | £17,250 (1997) | £99,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 154 Eastbourne Road | £29,000 (1996) | £92,500 (2023) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Eastbourne Road, Darlington 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 | 195 | 74.1% | £59,000 | £15,000 – £195,000 |
| Semi-detached | 55 | 20.9% | £83,500 | £29,000 – £280,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 3.4% | £140,000 | £33,500 – £270,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 1.5% | £41,500 | £28,500 – £85,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Eastbourne Road, Darlington
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 259 freehold — 1.5% 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 £52,750 and the median freehold sale £65,000 — a gap of +23.2%. 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 | 4 | 1.5% | £52,750 |
| Freehold | 259 | 98.5% | £65,000 |
A further 26 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 Eastbourne Road, Darlington
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £65,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.83% 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 DL1, 716 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 207 violent, 22 burglary, 20 vehicle-related and 164 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.3 times busier.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 1.37 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 Eastbourne Road, Darlington
The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a DL1 postcode: 12 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through, 1 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haughton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 854 |
| Polam Hall School | All-through | Free schools | 842 |
| St Aidan's Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 587 |
| The Rydal Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 584 |
| Heathfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 439 |
| Whinfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 433 |
| Northwood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 429 |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 342 |
| St Bede's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 322 |
| Firthmoor Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 279 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| North Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Darlington Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Dinsdale Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Tees-side Airport Rail Station | Rail | 7.4 km |
Section 09
How Eastbourne Road, Darlington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Eastbourne Road, Darlington sits below that national figure — -58.7%.
Within Darlington the street ranks 1128 of 1380 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £101,500 (-36.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £833 per square metre, across 48 of the 263 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 £15,000 to £280,000. 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.
Eastbourne Road, Darlington sits in County Durham, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 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
Streets nearby
- North Road£85,000 median
- Geneva Road£80,000 median
- Yarm Road£80,000 median
- The Green£185,000 median
- Neasham Road£85,000 median
- Clifton Road£83,000 median
- Park Lane£70,000 median
- Chestnut Drive£116,750 median
- Marlborough Drive£80,000 median
- Haughton Road£66,500 median
- Brunton Street£39,725 median
- Davison Road£94,500 median
- Barmpton Lane£140,000 median
- Leyburn Road£99,950 median
- Redmire Close£72,000 median
- Brighton Road£42,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 154 Eastbourne Road6 sales
- 3 Eastbourne Road5 sales
- 95 Eastbourne Road5 sales
- 150 Eastbourne Road5 sales
- 40 Eastbourne Road5 sales
- 62 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 65 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 68 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 88 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 58 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 66 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 4 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 47 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 74 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 79 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 145 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 143 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 54 Eastbourne Road4 sales
- 157 Eastbourne Road3 sales
- 52 Eastbourne Road3 sales
- 139 Eastbourne Road3 sales
- 124 Eastbourne Road3 sales
- 136 Eastbourne Road3 sales
- 5 Eastbourne Road3 sales
Back to Darlington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Eastbourne Road, Darlington?
The median price paid in Eastbourne Road, Darlington across every sale on the register is £65,000. 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 Eastbourne Road, Darlington?
263 sales are on record for Eastbourne Road, Darlington, the most recent completing on 5 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Eastbourne Road, Darlington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Eastbourne Road, Darlington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £115,000, set in 2021. 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 Eastbourne Road, Darlington?
£833 per square metre, from the 48 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 5 Dec 2025. 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, “Eastbourne Road, Darlington 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.