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South Hetton market report DH6 3, Durham
The DH6 3 (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: 2,531 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH6 3 (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: 28 registered 2026 sales put the DH6 3 (Durham) median at £128,000, up 51% on five years earlier, with a mean of £145,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,300 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,531 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DH6 3 is a single group of streets within DH6 (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 DH6 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.
What DH6 3 homes really sell for
Take the 28 registered 2026 sales in DH6 3 and the middle price, the median, is £128,000. The mean lands at £145,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in DH6 3
By floor space, homes in DH6 3 have sold for about £1,300 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH6 3 runs 55% below it.
A typical DH6 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £128,000 | £128,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 85 |
| 2024 | £88,500 | £94,094 | 72 |
| 2023 | £88,000 | £96,691 | 72 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 87 |
| 2021 | £85,000 | £107,621 | 95 |
| 2020 | £106,500 | £138,186 | 110 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 107 |
| 2018 | £93,100 | £124,104 | 104 |
| 2017 | £75,000 | £102,292 | 107 |
| 2016 | £87,000 | £121,714 | 111 |
| 2015 | £71,200 | £100,606 | 89 |
| 2014 | £57,800 | £81,999 | 64 |
| 2013 | £67,800 | £97,557 | 64 |
| 2012 | £79,000 | £116,278 | 42 |
| 2011 | £71,800 | £108,390 | 46 |
| 2010 | £81,000 | £127,029 | 57 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 53 |
| 2008 | £82,000 | £134,415 | 66 |
| 2007 | £82,000 | £139,095 | 143 |
| 2006 | £81,000 | £140,606 | 150 |
| 2005 | £71,500 | £127,241 | 98 |
| 2004 | £59,000 | £107,156 | 104 |
| 2003 | £36,000 | £66,321 | 111 |
| 2002 | £34,000 | £63,971 | 93 |
| 2001 | £32,000 | £61,518 | 77 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 43 |
| 1999 | £27,000 | £53,810 | 38 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 62 |
| 1997 | £25,500 | £52,295 | 56 |
| 1996 | £27,500 | £57,996 | 43 |
| 1995 | £27,500 | £59,781 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 3 home went from £27,500 in 1995 to £128,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 114%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2009; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2009 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH6 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 2004 (+63.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−29.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH6 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.5% | +3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in DH6 3
Sales per year, counted
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 28 DH6 3 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 102 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
The rental side of DH6 3
For renting purposes DH6 3 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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 £128,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 6.0% 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.
What kind of market DH6 3 is
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH6 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Asked and answered: DH6 3 (South Hetton)
How much did a house sell for in DH6 3 (South Hetton)?
Are property prices falling in DH6 3 (South Hetton)?
Is DH6 3 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
Are DH6 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 51% over five years in cash and up 19% 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
Turning to what is actually available: 91 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH6 district, not just DH6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% 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.
"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 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.
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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £95,700 | 46 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH6 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH6 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH6 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH6 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DH6 3 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.