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South Hetton market report DH6 1, Durham
The standing DH6 1 (South Hetton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,444 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH6 1 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DH6 1 (Durham) is £140,000, from 48 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £171,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,444 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DH6 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DH6 (Durham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DH6 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.
The going rate for a home in DH6 1
The DH6 1 median stands at £140,000 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £171,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in DH6 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH6 1 sales average about £1,850 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, DH6 1 sits 51% below the national market.
The price of a typical DH6 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 107 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 99 |
| 2023 | £133,800 | £147,014 | 114 |
| 2022 | £159,500 | £187,032 | 150 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 141 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 89 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 81 |
| 2018 | £115,000 | £153,297 | 93 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 105 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 115 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 70 |
| 2014 | £97,000 | £137,611 | 83 |
| 2013 | £100,500 | £144,609 | 78 |
| 2012 | £96,000 | £141,300 | 52 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 63 |
| 2010 | £101,000 | £158,394 | 75 |
| 2009 | £119,500 | £192,097 | 62 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 90 |
| 2007 | £119,500 | £202,705 | 135 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 159 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 141 |
| 2004 | £96,000 | £174,355 | 147 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 117 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 160 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 132 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 113 |
| 1999 | £58,100 | £115,790 | 114 |
| 1998 | £53,500 | £107,994 | 125 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 173 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 147 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 1 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 63%, 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 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH6 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 1996 (+51.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−17.1%). 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) | −9.7% | −11.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −2.0% |
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 DH6 1
How many homes change hands
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in DH6 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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 DH6 1 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH6 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 DH6, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around DH6 1
The local authority for DH6 1 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £140,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
DH6 1 (South Hetton): the questions that come up
Is DH6 1 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH6 1 (South Hetton)?
Are property prices falling in DH6 1 (South Hetton)?
Are DH6 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in DH6 today
The live side of the market holds 91 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH6 district, not just DH6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DH6 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DH6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH6 2 | £95,700 | 46 |
| DH6 3 | £128,000 | 28 |
| DH6 4 | £130,000 | 41 |
| DH6 5 | £140,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full DH6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DH6 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH6 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH6 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH6 1 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 DH6 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH6 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DH6 1 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.