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Northumberland Heath market report DA8, Erith
The standing DA8 (Northumberland Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 16,064 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DA8 (Erith) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical DA8 (Erith) home changed hands for £373,500 in 2026 (median of 116 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £371,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,460 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,064 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district DA8 covering Erith, Northumberland Heath, Slade Green sits in Erith. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DA8 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 DA8 homes really sell for
The DA8 median stands at £373,500 for 2026, built from 116 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £371,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in DA8
A square metre of DA8 home has cost about £4,460 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DA8 sits 31% above the national market.
DA8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £373,500 | £373,500 | 116 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 296 |
| 2024 | £350,500 | £372,653 | 274 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 266 |
| 2022 | £366,500 | £429,763 | 442 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 521 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 390 |
| 2019 | £296,500 | £388,641 | 424 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 403 |
| 2017 | £282,000 | £384,620 | 401 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 452 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 639 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 530 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 339 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 266 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 283 |
| 2010 | £169,000 | £265,036 | 251 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 227 |
| 2008 | £174,000 | £285,223 | 337 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 699 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 665 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 609 |
| 2004 | £151,200 | £274,609 | 756 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 838 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 957 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 824 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 635 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 738 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 639 |
| 1997 | £59,200 | £121,407 | 809 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 561 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 477 |
In cash terms the typical DA8 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £373,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 218%, 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 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA8 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £512,500 against £245,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, DA8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £512,500 | 6 | 380 |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | 33 | 4,083 |
| Terraced | £375,000 | 48 | 6,712 |
| Flats | £245,000 | 29 | 4,877 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DA8 recorded 241 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 748 sales a year before the financial crisis and 279 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around DA8
The local authority for DA8 is Bexley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £373,500 median sold price, £1,528 a month is £18,336 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about DA8 (Northumberland Heath)
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What happens to DA8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DA8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DA8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 9 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the DA8 median sold price.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every DA8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in DA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DA area, from the Land Registry record. 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
DA8 ranks 3 of 18 in the DA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
DA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DA8, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA8 1 | £366,200 | 54 |
| DA8 2 | £370,000 | 25 |
| DA8 3 | £400,000 | 37 |
How DA8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DA3 | £502,500 | +14% |
| DA5 | £493,500 | +3% |
| DA13 | £475,000 | +5% |
| DA16 | £468,000 | +10% |
| DA15 | £465,000 | +11% |
| DA7 | £455,000 | +3% |
| DA6 | £405,000 | +16% |
| DA2 | £395,000 | +7% |
| DA4 | £382,500 | +7% |
| DA14 | £381,000 | +2% |
| DA8 (this report) | £373,500 | +15% |
| DA1 | £365,000 | +12% |
| DA17 | £342,500 | +4% |
| DA10 | £340,000 | -15% |
| DA11 | £340,000 | +6% |
| DA12 | £337,500 | +7% |
| DA9 | £335,000 | +18% |
| DA18 | £270,000 | -15% |
Selling a home in DA8? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DA8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DA8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.