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2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington appears in the public record as a freehold house sitting on a 423 m2 plot.
By comparing it to nearby properties, we estimate it to be a modern house with 2,193 ft2 of internal area and a garden.
Locally, houses of this size normally have 5 bedrooms.
Our estimate of the sale value of 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington is £335,946 and its rental estimate is £1,849 per month, given the available information and assuming reasonable condition.
Merrybent Drive, Merrybent, Darlington, DL2 falls within the DL2 postal district.
2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington has 3 entries in the Land Registry , most recently in September 2017 and no records in the EPC database.
We combine this sold price information with public data of neighbouring properties to estimate the attributes and values.
The local information is scored as 5 out of 5 and is considered of high accuracy.
The condition of a property plays an important role in determining its value, with the degree of impact varying by property type, size and location.
For 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, we estimate a market value of £352,743 and a rental value of £1,942 per month when presented in very good decorative order. Should the property require extensive cosmetic improvement, those figures would reduce to £312,429 and £1,720 per month respectively.
Over the last year, 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington has seen its estimated sale value increase by £5,665 (1.7%) and its estimated rental value grow by £46 per month (2.5%). This results in an estimated gross rental yield of 6.6%.
HM Land Registry records the plot of land for 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington as measuring 423 m2.
That makes it the 4th largest plot in the postcode, where all 48 other houses have recorded plot data.
The most recent sale of 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington completed on 19th September 2017 at £400,000 and was recorded by HM Land Registry as a freehold house.
Since 1995 the property has sold 3 times.
Values of comparable properties have risen by 17.6% over the period since September 2017.
Over the past 2 years 3 properties similar to 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington have sold within a radius of 1.8 kilometres, per the Land Registry and our network of Estate Agents.
The latest, on the 25th November 2022, was 36, Edinburgh Drive, Darlington, DL3 8AT, a freehold house which sold for £395,000.
Read more about house prices in DL2.
•Nearby is defined as the radius comprising the nearest 2,000 addresses.
Of the 48 addresses on Merrybent Drive, Merrybent, Darlington, DL2, 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington comes out as the largest and the 8th most expensive in our analysis of the public data.
It is also £54k more expensive than the average property across the DL2 district.
From 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, the nearest station is North Road (Darlington), 4.2 kilometres away.
Broadband here reaches superfast speeds, based on recent Ofcom data.
According to recent data from Ofcom, Superfast broadband is available in the area.
The flood risk here is rated very low, based on Environment Agency data.
The recent census recorded whether a resident owned or rented their home.
In the area around 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, 41.2% of property is privately owned outright and 40.1% is privately owned with a mortgage.
The graph below shows how this compares to North East and the rest of England & Wales.
The recent census recorded the highest level of education achieved by residents in the local area.
In the area around 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, 26.0% of residents are recorded as possessing school level qualifications and 37.6% as possessing degree level qualifications.
The graph below shows how this compares to North East and the rest of England & Wales.
The most recent census in 2021 recorded the age of all UK residents.
In the area around 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, the average age was 42.5 and the most common age was 52.
The graph below shows how this compares to North East and the rest of England & Wales
The recent census recorded whether a property was a primary or secondary home for the resident.
In the area around 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, 0.4% of property was a second home.
Comparison figures for North East and the rest of England & Wales are listed below.
The recent census recorded the number of cars registered in each household.
In the area around 2, Merrybent Drive, Darlington, there are an average of 1.8 cars per household.
See below for how this compares to North East and the rest of England & Wales.