DL4 — Shildon
DL4 is Shildon's patch in County Durham — this page and its game board are built from 6,038 sales over 32 years of recorded sales in 5 areas.
From £25,950 in 1995 to £72,300 in 2026: the DL4 median multiplied 2.8× across the dataset. The best vintage to have bought was around 2004, when the local median jumped +48.6% in a single year. Worst year on the board: 2011, at -17.1%. The simulation does not soften it.
Median sold price in DL4
| Year | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | £25,950 | 117 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | 151 |
| 2005 | £69,000 | 278 |
| 2010 | £69,950 | 114 |
| 2015 | £57,000 | 206 |
| 2020 | £52,000 | 211 |
| 2025 | £62,500 | 224 |
| 2026 | £72,300 | 57 |
The areas on the board
These are the 5 areas on the board, ranked by how much of the local market they carry:
- Shildon (DL4 2) (52% of local sales) — busiest streets: Redworth Road, Bouch Street, Cedar Grove
- Shildon (DL4 1) (48% of local sales) — busiest streets: Byerley Road, Auckland Terrace, Main Street
- Old Eldon (0% of local sales)
- Prospect Road (0% of local sales)
- Brusselton (0% of local sales) — busiest streets: Old Engine Houses
The data is real and so are the down years. Draft six properties on the DL4 board.
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Prices are medians of real Land Registry sales. Street lists show street names only — never individual addresses. New to the game? Start with how to play.