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South Hetton market report DH6, Durham
The DH6 (South Hetton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 17,004 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH6 (Durham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for DH6 (Durham) is £125,000, from 202 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £144,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,680 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,004 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district DH6 covering South Hetton, Haswell, Shotton Colliery sits in Durham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DH6 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.
DH6 sold prices: where the market stands
The DH6 median stands at £125,000 for 2026, built from 202 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £144,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in DH6
The last five years of sales put DH6 at roughly £1,680 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH6 runs 56% below it.
DH6's median sold price, 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 | £125,000 | £125,000 | 202 |
| 2025 | £138,000 | £141,300 | 586 |
| 2024 | £135,000 | £143,533 | 581 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 557 |
| 2022 | £138,200 | £162,055 | 720 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 726 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 513 |
| 2019 | £105,000 | £137,630 | 498 |
| 2018 | £100,000 | £133,302 | 474 |
| 2017 | £97,500 | £132,980 | 585 |
| 2016 | £112,000 | £156,689 | 606 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 531 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 480 |
| 2013 | £102,000 | £146,768 | 400 |
| 2012 | £97,000 | £142,772 | 299 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 362 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 375 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 320 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 414 |
| 2007 | £104,000 | £176,413 | 849 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 800 |
| 2005 | £96,500 | £171,731 | 599 |
| 2004 | £83,000 | £150,744 | 702 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 643 |
| 2002 | £45,000 | £84,667 | 734 |
| 2001 | £44,000 | £84,588 | 603 |
| 2000 | £45,800 | £89,883 | 472 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 474 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 518 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 509 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 488 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 384 |
In cash terms the typical DH6 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £125,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 58%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH6 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 (+50.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−12.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £235,000 against £61,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, DH6
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £237,500 | 42 | 4,735 |
| Semi-detached | £120,000 | 95 | 6,328 |
| Terraced | £103,000 | 63 | 5,779 |
| Flats | £61,000 (2022) | – | 107 |
What DH6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.4% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in DH6
Sales per year, counted
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 432 DH6 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 675 sales a year before the financial crisis and 529 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.
What kind of market DH6 is
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. Among the 9 measurable districts of its area, DH6 ranks 8 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around DH6
For renting purposes DH6 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 £125,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
Asked and answered: DH6 (South Hetton)
How much did a house sell for in DH6 (South Hetton)?
Are property prices falling in DH6 (South Hetton)?
Is DH6 (South Hetton) a good place to buy a house?
Will DH6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
DH6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DH6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 91 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the DH6 median sold price.
39% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
DH6 ranks 9 of 9 in the DH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
DH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DH6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| DH6 5 | £140,000 | 39 |
How DH6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 | £235,000 | +9% |
| DH3 | £170,000 | -2% |
| DH2 | £165,000 | +16% |
| DH4 | £152,500 | -5% |
| DH5 | £149,500 | +11% |
| DH7 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 (this report) | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Before you sell in DH6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH6, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH6.
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The live map plots every individual DH6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.