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Durham market report DH1
The DH1 (Durham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 21,094 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH1 (Durham) 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: 183 registered 2026 sales put the DH1 (Durham) median at £235,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £269,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,520 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 21,094 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district DH1 covering Durham sits in Durham. 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 DH1 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 buyers actually paid in DH1
The 2026 median for DH1 is £235,000, taken from 183 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £269,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DH1
By floor space, homes in DH1 have sold for about £2,520 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 18% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DH1 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 183 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 596 |
| 2024 | £221,500 | £235,500 | 576 |
| 2023 | £205,000 | £225,245 | 535 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 637 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 804 |
| 2020 | £195,000 | £253,017 | 521 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 631 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 630 |
| 2017 | £179,500 | £244,820 | 717 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 646 |
| 2015 | £169,200 | £239,080 | 652 |
| 2014 | £165,000 | £234,081 | 600 |
| 2013 | £152,000 | £218,713 | 557 |
| 2012 | £155,200 | £228,435 | 496 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 452 |
| 2010 | £163,500 | £256,410 | 495 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 467 |
| 2008 | £162,500 | £266,372 | 538 |
| 2007 | £162,000 | £274,797 | 903 |
| 2006 | £167,000 | £289,891 | 967 |
| 2005 | £161,500 | £287,405 | 728 |
| 2004 | £157,000 | £285,143 | 777 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 817 |
| 2002 | £83,200 | £156,540 | 740 |
| 2001 | £69,000 | £132,649 | 904 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 866 |
| 1999 | £65,200 | £129,940 | 892 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 751 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 769 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 672 |
| 1995 | £53,500 | £116,301 | 575 |
In cash terms the typical DH1 home went from £53,500 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 102%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH1 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 (+44.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £380,200 against £120,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, DH1
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 | £380,200 | 45 | 4,664 |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | 76 | 8,683 |
| Terraced | £205,000 | 33 | 5,115 |
| Flats | £120,000 | 29 | 2,632 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.4% | +2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DH1 recorded 406 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 838 sales a year before the financial crisis and 505 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 DH1
DH1 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £447 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £982, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £235,000 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.
The shape of the DH1 market
By median price, DH1 presently tops its postcode area.
Asked and answered: DH1 (Durham)
Is DH1 (Durham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH1 (Durham)?
Are property prices falling in DH1 (Durham)?
Where do DH1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DH1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DH1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 139 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the DH1 median sold price.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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" 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DH1 ranks 5 of 9 in the DH 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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DH1, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 1 | £205,000 | 35 |
| DH1 2 | £230,000 | 25 |
| DH1 3 | £355,000 | 13 |
| DH1 4 | £420,000 | 29 |
| DH1 5 | £195,000 | 81 |
How DH1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 (this report) | £235,000 | +9% |
| DH3 | £170,000 | -2% |
| DH2 | £165,000 | +16% |
| DH4 | £152,500 | -5% |
| DH5 | £149,500 | +11% |
| DH7 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Selling a home in DH1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH1 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.
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.