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Durham market report DH1 1
The standing DH1 1 (Durham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,490 HM Land Registry entries for DH1 1 (Durham), 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: 35 registered 2026 sales put the DH1 1 (Durham) median at £205,000, up 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £257,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,490 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DH1 1 is a single group of streets within DH1 (Durham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DH1 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 DH1 1 homes really sell for
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in DH1 1 and the middle price, the median, is £205,000. The mean lands at £257,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
DH1 1 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in DH1 1 have sold for about £2,250 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH1 1 28% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DH1 1 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £183,000 | £187,376 | 111 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 113 |
| 2023 | £190,000 | £208,764 | 109 |
| 2022 | £166,000 | £194,654 | 143 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 155 |
| 2020 | £149,000 | £193,331 | 104 |
| 2019 | £149,700 | £196,221 | 131 |
| 2018 | £132,500 | £176,625 | 136 |
| 2017 | £142,500 | £194,356 | 171 |
| 2016 | £143,000 | £200,058 | 141 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £197,820 | 135 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 143 |
| 2013 | £121,000 | £174,107 | 127 |
| 2012 | £113,800 | £167,499 | 98 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 120 |
| 2010 | £120,000 | £188,191 | 101 |
| 2009 | £112,500 | £180,845 | 100 |
| 2008 | £130,200 | £213,425 | 80 |
| 2007 | £136,000 | £230,694 | 226 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 211 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 143 |
| 2004 | £139,000 | £252,451 | 178 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 165 |
| 2002 | £76,000 | £142,993 | 159 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 213 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 213 |
| 1999 | £67,400 | £134,325 | 193 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 145 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 153 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 141 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical DH1 1 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 94%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH1 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 2003 (+44.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.6%). 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) | +12.0% | +9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in DH1 1
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.
The register shows 35 DH1 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
The rental side of DH1 1
DH1 1 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £205,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
The shape of the DH1 1 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH1 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. Within DH1, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: DH1 1 (Durham)
Are property prices falling in DH1 1 (Durham)?
Is DH1 1 (Durham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH1 1 (Durham)?
Will DH1 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
DH1's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 139 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH1 district, not just DH1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Faraday Court, Durham, DH1
- Gray Avenue, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1, Durham
- Middleham Road, Newton Hall, Durham
"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 DH1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DH1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DH1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 2 | £230,000 | 25 |
| DH1 3 | £355,000 | 13 |
| DH1 4 | £420,000 | 29 |
| DH1 5 | £195,000 | 81 |
Zoom out to the full DH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DH1 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH1 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH1 1 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.