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Northumberland Heath market report DA8 1, Erith
The DA8 1 (Northumberland Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,064 HM Land Registry entries for DA8 1 (Erith), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DA8 1 (Erith) sold for £366,200 in 2026, the median of 54 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £341,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,400 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,064 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like DA8 1 is a single group of streets within DA8 (Erith), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DA8 1 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.
What buyers actually paid in DA8 1
In the DA8 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £366,200, from 54 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £341,700, sitting below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in DA8 1
Per square metre, DA8 1 homes have averaged around £4,400 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DA8 1 trades 28% above the country as a whole.
A typical DA8 1 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £366,200 | £366,200 | 54 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 137 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 121 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 125 |
| 2022 | £364,500 | £427,418 | 160 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 228 |
| 2020 | £347,500 | £450,888 | 198 |
| 2019 | £273,000 | £357,838 | 165 |
| 2018 | £301,500 | £401,905 | 187 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 151 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 174 |
| 2015 | £234,500 | £331,349 | 206 |
| 2014 | £196,000 | £278,060 | 186 |
| 2013 | £186,500 | £268,355 | 157 |
| 2012 | £168,200 | £247,569 | 112 |
| 2011 | £166,200 | £250,898 | 122 |
| 2010 | £167,800 | £263,154 | 102 |
| 2009 | £166,000 | £266,846 | 101 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 165 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 289 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 305 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 324 |
| 2004 | £153,000 | £277,878 | 340 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 399 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 467 |
| 2001 | £91,500 | £175,904 | 371 |
| 2000 | £79,200 | £155,430 | 278 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 302 |
| 1998 | £59,600 | £120,307 | 282 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 425 |
| 1996 | £51,800 | £109,244 | 256 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 175 |
In cash terms the typical DA8 1 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £366,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 237%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA8 1 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 2002 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
DA8 1 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 347 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How DA8 1 trades
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA8 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of DA8 1
DA8 1 falls under Bexley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,528 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,221 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,413, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bexley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,528 a month is £18,336 a year, which against the £366,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on DA8 1 (Northumberland Heath)
Are property prices falling in DA8 1 (Northumberland Heath)?
Is DA8 1 (Northumberland Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DA8 1 (Northumberland Heath)?
What happens to DA8 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in DA8 right now
The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DA8 district, not just DA8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DA8 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.
What another bedroom costs in DA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DA area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £450,000 | £600,000 (+33%) | £800,000 (+33%) | £1,100,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £341,500 | £410,000 (+20%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £600,000 (+25%) | £712,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £312,000 | £364,000 (+17%) | £410,000 (+13%) | £499,997 (+22%) | £630,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £217,500 | £287,995 (+32%) | £339,997 (+18%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DA8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DA8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA8 2 | £370,000 | 25 |
| DA8 3 | £400,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full DA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DA8 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DA8 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DA8 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DA8 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every DA8 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.