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South Hetton market report DH6 4, Durham
The standing DH6 4 (South Hetton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,437 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH6 4 (Durham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 41 registered 2026 sales put the DH6 4 (Durham) median at £130,000, down 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £143,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,870 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,437 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DH6 4 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 4 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 4 homes really sell for
Across 41 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH6 4 home went for £130,000. The mean is £143,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DH6 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH6 4 sales average about £1,870 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH6 4 54% below the country at large.
DH6 4's median sold price, 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 | £130,000 | £130,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £146,200 | £149,696 | 112 |
| 2024 | £167,800 | £178,406 | 128 |
| 2023 | £159,000 | £174,702 | 136 |
| 2022 | £160,000 | £187,618 | 191 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 191 |
| 2020 | £144,500 | £187,492 | 120 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 113 |
| 2018 | £93,500 | £124,637 | 83 |
| 2017 | £85,500 | £116,613 | 78 |
| 2016 | £112,500 | £157,389 | 76 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 73 |
| 2014 | £123,600 | £175,348 | 96 |
| 2013 | £103,000 | £148,207 | 95 |
| 2012 | £126,000 | £185,456 | 75 |
| 2011 | £98,900 | £149,301 | 62 |
| 2010 | £99,000 | £155,257 | 59 |
| 2009 | £92,000 | £147,891 | 47 |
| 2008 | £107,500 | £176,215 | 79 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 120 |
| 2006 | £109,000 | £189,210 | 123 |
| 2005 | £107,500 | £191,307 | 103 |
| 2004 | £89,000 | £161,641 | 123 |
| 2003 | £82,000 | £151,064 | 107 |
| 2002 | £59,000 | £111,008 | 119 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 149 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 139 |
| 1999 | £63,800 | £127,150 | 133 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 131 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 100 |
| 1996 | £48,400 | £102,073 | 124 |
| 1995 | £53,200 | £115,649 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 4 home went from £53,200 in 1995 to £130,000 in 2026, roughly 2.4 times the price. In today's money, though, the move is modest, around 12%. The cash growth mostly records inflation, with homes themselves changing little in real value. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 33% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH6 4 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 2019 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−24.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.1% | −13.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.8% | −7.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
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
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 41 DH6 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 122 sales a year recently, against 123 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.
The shape of the DH6 4 market
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH6 4 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.
What homes rent for around DH6 4
For renting purposes DH6 4 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.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £130,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. 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.
What people ask about DH6 4 (South Hetton)
Is DH6 4 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH6 4 (South Hetton)?
Are property prices falling in DH6 4 (South Hetton)?
Where do DH6 4 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in DH6 now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 39% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
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 2 | £95,700 | 46 |
| DH6 3 | £128,000 | 28 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in DH6 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH6 4'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 4.
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Two maps carry on from here: every DH6 4 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.