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Durham market report DH
The DH (Durham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 152,516 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the DH postcode area (Durham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for the DH postcode area (Durham) is £148,000, from 1,611 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £176,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 152,516 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The DH postcode area centred on Durham covers 9 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where DH 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.
DH sold prices: where the market stands
1,611 sales were registered in DH in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £148,000. The mean works out at £176,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in DH
Per square metre, DH homes have averaged around £1,830 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH 48% below the national figure.
DH's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £148,000 | £148,000 | 1,611 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 4,799 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 4,542 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 4,194 |
| 2022 | £147,500 | £172,961 | 5,389 |
| 2021 | £145,000 | £183,589 | 5,796 |
| 2020 | £138,000 | £179,058 | 4,196 |
| 2019 | £130,500 | £171,054 | 4,729 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 4,660 |
| 2017 | £126,000 | £171,851 | 5,014 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 4,513 |
| 2015 | £122,000 | £172,386 | 4,344 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 4,040 |
| 2013 | £114,000 | £164,035 | 3,714 |
| 2012 | £109,500 | £161,170 | 3,128 |
| 2011 | £107,000 | £161,529 | 3,347 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 3,217 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 2,903 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 3,735 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 7,533 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 6,747 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 5,613 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 6,620 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 6,749 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 6,697 |
| 2001 | £51,500 | £99,006 | 6,143 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 5,429 |
| 1999 | £51,800 | £103,235 | 4,978 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 4,824 |
| 1997 | £46,200 | £94,747 | 4,819 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 4,471 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 4,022 |
In cash terms the typical DH home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £148,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 62%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH 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 2004 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.5%). 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) | −7.5% | −9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
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, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £270,000 against £89,500 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, DH
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 | £270,000 | 353 | 37,216 |
| Semi-detached | £155,000 | 581 | 49,397 |
| Terraced | £110,300 | 600 | 58,882 |
| Flats | £89,500 | 77 | 7,021 |
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 3,535 sales completed in DH. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 6,441 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,107 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.
The rental side of DH
DH falls under County Durham, the local authority covering most of the DH area (parts fall under Sunderland, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £148,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 5.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about DH (Durham)
How much did a house sell for in DH (Durham)?
Are property prices falling in DH (Durham)?
Is DH (Durham) a good place to buy a house?
Are DH prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in DH now
Everything above is what homes in DH sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 548 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the DH median sold price.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Faraday Court, Durham, DH1
- Gray Avenue, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1, Durham
- Rowan Walk, High Hold, Pelton, Chester Le Street
"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 DH 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £194,950 | £270,000 (+38%) | £415,000 (+54%) | £550,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £133,250 | £140,000 (+5%) | £174,000 (+24%) | £262,000 (+51%) | £430,000 (+64%) |
| Terraced | £90,000 | £94,000 (+4%) | £111,000 (+18%) | £166,130 (+50%) | £322,500 (+94%) |
| Flat | £79,950 | £120,300 (+50%) | £205,153 (+71%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside DH matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| DH1 Durham | £235,000 | +9% | 183 |
| DH3 Great Lumley, Birtley (east of East Coast Main Line) | £170,000 | -2% | 140 |
| DH2 Ouston, Pelton | £165,000 | +16% | 159 |
| DH4 Houghton-le-Spring (west of A690), Penshaw | £152,500 | -5% | 168 |
| DH5 Houghton-le-Spring (east of A690), Hetton-le-Hole | £149,500 | +11% | 110 |
| DH7 Brandon, Lanchester | £140,000 | +10% | 241 |
| DH8 Consett, Blackhill | £140,000 | +8% | 221 |
| DH6 South Hetton, Haswell | £125,000 | -5% | 202 |
| DH9 Dipton, Stanley | £110,000 | +22% | 187 |
Selling in DH? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working DH: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.