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South Hetton market report DH6 2, Durham
The DH6 2 (South Hetton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,184 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH6 2 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DH6 2 (Durham) home changed hands for £95,700 in 2026 (median of 46 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £110,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,330 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,184 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DH6 2 is one sector of DH6 (Durham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DH6 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.
Today's DH6 2 prices, from the sold record
The DH6 2 median stands at £95,700 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £110,900, 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 2
By floor space, homes in DH6 2 have sold for about £1,330 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DH6 2 sits 66% below the national market.
A typical DH6 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 | £95,700 | £95,700 | 46 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 132 |
| 2024 | £103,000 | £109,510 | 133 |
| 2023 | £90,000 | £98,888 | 127 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 125 |
| 2021 | £89,000 | £112,685 | 150 |
| 2020 | £80,000 | £103,802 | 99 |
| 2019 | £80,000 | £104,861 | 96 |
| 2018 | £77,500 | £103,309 | 103 |
| 2017 | £91,200 | £124,388 | 174 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 146 |
| 2015 | £90,000 | £127,170 | 170 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 140 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 77 |
| 2012 | £74,000 | £108,919 | 64 |
| 2011 | £71,000 | £107,183 | 73 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 75 |
| 2009 | £84,100 | £135,191 | 90 |
| 2008 | £90,500 | £148,349 | 120 |
| 2007 | £96,000 | £162,843 | 278 |
| 2006 | £95,000 | £164,908 | 231 |
| 2005 | £87,000 | £154,825 | 167 |
| 2004 | £77,000 | £139,847 | 253 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 210 |
| 2002 | £43,500 | £81,845 | 203 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 153 |
| 2000 | £37,000 | £72,613 | 101 |
| 1999 | £43,000 | £85,697 | 107 |
| 1998 | £31,200 | £62,979 | 92 |
| 1997 | £30,400 | £62,344 | 90 |
| 1996 | £30,100 | £63,480 | 94 |
| 1995 | £27,500 | £59,781 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 2 home went from £27,500 in 1995 to £95,700 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 60%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 42% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH6 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 2004 (+71.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.3%). 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) | −20.3% | −22.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.4% | −4.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | 0.0% | −2.7% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 DH6 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market DH6 2 is
This is a thin market: 46 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. 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. Against the DH6 district median, DH6 2 sits 23% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around DH6 2
For renting purposes DH6 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.
Set against the £95,700 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 8.0%: 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.
DH6 2 (South Hetton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DH6 2 (South Hetton)?
Is DH6 2 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH6 2 (South Hetton)?
Will DH6 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 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
On the market in DH6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 91 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH6 district, not just DH6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 39% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — | — |
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.
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 DH6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DH6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH6 1 | £140,000 | 48 |
| 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 a home in DH6 2? 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 DH6 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DH6 2.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual DH6 2 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.
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.