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Durham market report DH1 2
The DH1 2 (Durham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,554 HM Land Registry entries for DH1 2 (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: the typical home in DH1 2 (Durham) sold for £230,000 in 2026, the median of 25 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier. The mean was £252,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,360 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,554 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 DH1 2 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 2 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 2 homes really sell for
Take the 25 registered 2026 sales in DH1 2 and the middle price, the median, is £230,000. The mean lands at £252,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DH1 2
A square metre of DH1 2 home has cost about £2,360 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DH1 2 trades 19% below the country as a whole.
A typical DH1 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 150 |
| 2024 | £219,800 | £233,693 | 110 |
| 2023 | £187,000 | £205,467 | 93 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 97 |
| 2021 | £186,200 | £235,753 | 116 |
| 2020 | £173,000 | £224,471 | 90 |
| 2019 | £161,500 | £211,688 | 88 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 106 |
| 2017 | £155,500 | £212,086 | 104 |
| 2016 | £159,500 | £223,142 | 121 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 99 |
| 2014 | £145,000 | £205,708 | 101 |
| 2013 | £141,000 | £202,885 | 82 |
| 2012 | £149,000 | £219,309 | 81 |
| 2011 | £149,100 | £225,084 | 64 |
| 2010 | £156,500 | £245,432 | 72 |
| 2009 | £141,900 | £228,105 | 72 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 70 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 143 |
| 2006 | £160,800 | £279,128 | 195 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 107 |
| 2004 | £143,000 | £259,716 | 124 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 149 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 134 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 139 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 188 |
| 1999 | £57,400 | £114,395 | 172 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 117 |
| 1997 | £57,800 | £118,536 | 130 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 117 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical DH1 2 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 103%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH1 2 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 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.2% | −0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in DH1 2
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 25 DH1 2 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 147 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 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.
What kind of market DH1 2 is
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around DH1 2
For renting purposes DH1 2 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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 £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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 DH1 2 (Durham)
Is DH1 2 (Durham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH1 2 (Durham)?
Are property prices falling in DH1 2 (Durham)?
Will DH1 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat 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 you could buy in DH1 now
The live side of the market holds 139 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH1 district, not just DH1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Faraday Court, Durham, DH1
- Gray Avenue, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1, Durham
- Middleham Road, Newton Hall, Durham
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £205,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling in DH1 2? 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 DH1 2'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 DH1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH1 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DH1 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.