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Durham market report DH1 3
The DH1 3 (Durham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,869 registered sales in DH1 3 (Durham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 13 registered 2026 sales put the DH1 3 (Durham) median at £355,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £380,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,220 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,869 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DH1 3 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 3 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.
The going rate for a home in DH1 3
The 2026 median for DH1 3 is £355,000, taken from 13 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £380,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in DH1 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH1 3 sales average about £3,220 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DH1 3 sits 25% above the national market.
The price of a typical DH1 3 home, 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 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £377,500 | £386,527 | 58 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 51 |
| 2023 | £332,500 | £365,336 | 48 |
| 2022 | £375,500 | £440,317 | 65 |
| 2021 | £315,500 | £399,464 | 114 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 93 |
| 2019 | £365,000 | £478,428 | 104 |
| 2018 | £281,000 | £374,578 | 78 |
| 2017 | £362,500 | £494,414 | 96 |
| 2016 | £312,200 | £436,771 | 78 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 79 |
| 2014 | £317,500 | £450,429 | 46 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 27 |
| 2012 | £196,000 | £288,488 | 41 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 36 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 37 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 48 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 62 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 71 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 50 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 34 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 38 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 69 |
| 2002 | £157,000 | £295,394 | 38 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 58 |
| 2000 | £99,000 | £194,288 | 61 |
| 1999 | £98,000 | £195,309 | 62 |
| 1998 | £97,800 | £197,416 | 46 |
| 1997 | £84,200 | £172,677 | 75 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 50 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 43 |
In cash terms the typical DH1 3 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH1 3 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 (+49.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−27.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 13 DH1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 47 sales a year recently, against 52 a year before 2008. 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 DH1 3
DH1 3 falls under County Durham, 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.
Set against the £355,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 2.2%: 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.
Reading the DH1 3 market
This is a thin market: 13 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the DH1 district median, DH1 3 sits 51% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
DH1 3 (Durham): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DH1 3 (Durham)?
Are property prices falling in DH1 3 (Durham)?
Is DH1 3 (Durham) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to DH1 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% 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
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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.
Other sectors in DH1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 1 | £205,000 | 35 |
| DH1 2 | £230,000 | 25 |
| 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.
Before you sell in DH1 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH1 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DH1 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH1 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.