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South Hetton market report DH6 5, Durham
The DH6 5 (South Hetton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,408 HM Land Registry entries for DH6 5 (Durham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DH6 5 (Durham) is £140,000, from 39 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £151,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,408 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DH6 5 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 5 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 5 prices, from the sold record
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in DH6 5 and the middle price, the median, is £140,000. The mean lands at £151,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DH6 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH6 5 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH6 5 51% below the national figure.
A typical DH6 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £154,100 | £157,785 | 150 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 149 |
| 2023 | £162,900 | £178,987 | 108 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 167 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 149 |
| 2020 | £129,000 | £167,380 | 95 |
| 2019 | £101,500 | £133,042 | 101 |
| 2018 | £113,000 | £150,631 | 91 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 121 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 158 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 129 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 97 |
| 2013 | £114,000 | £164,035 | 86 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 66 |
| 2011 | £119,500 | £180,399 | 118 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 109 |
| 2009 | £105,300 | £169,271 | 68 |
| 2008 | £102,500 | £168,019 | 59 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 173 |
| 2006 | £104,000 | £180,531 | 137 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 90 |
| 2004 | £86,000 | £156,193 | 75 |
| 2003 | £59,200 | £109,061 | 98 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 159 |
| 2001 | £37,000 | £71,131 | 92 |
| 2000 | £38,100 | £74,771 | 76 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 82 |
| 1998 | £47,700 | £96,286 | 108 |
| 1997 | £40,500 | £83,057 | 90 |
| 1996 | £36,900 | £77,820 | 80 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 5 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 76%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 28% 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 5 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 (+45.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−16.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH6 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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 5
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 39 DH6 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 123 sales a year recently, against 113 a year before 2008. 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.
The shape of the DH6 5 market
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH6 5 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. Within DH6, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around DH6 5
DH6 5 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
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.
What people ask about DH6 5 (South Hetton)
Are property prices falling in DH6 5 (South Hetton)?
Is DH6 5 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH6 5 (South Hetton)?
Are DH6 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
DH6's current homes for sale
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 5: 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £140,000 | 48 |
| DH6 2 | £95,700 | 46 |
| DH6 3 | £128,000 | 28 |
| DH6 4 | £130,000 | 41 |
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 5? Price it on the evidence
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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.