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Brandon market report DH7, Durham
The standing DH7 (Brandon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 20,153 HM Land Registry entries for DH7 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical DH7 (Durham) home changed hands for £140,000 in 2026 (median of 241 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £165,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,740 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,153 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DH7 is a postcode district covering Brandon, Lanchester, Esh Winning in Durham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DH7 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 buyers actually paid in DH7
The 2026 median for DH7 is £140,000, taken from 241 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £165,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in DH7
The last five years of sales put DH7 at roughly £1,740 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH7 51% below the national figure.
A typical DH7 home, priced year by year (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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 241 |
| 2025 | £152,000 | £155,635 | 620 |
| 2024 | £147,000 | £156,291 | 578 |
| 2023 | £132,500 | £145,585 | 532 |
| 2022 | £131,200 | £153,847 | 710 |
| 2021 | £127,500 | £161,431 | 703 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 555 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 625 |
| 2018 | £118,000 | £157,296 | 637 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 655 |
| 2016 | £118,000 | £165,083 | 580 |
| 2015 | £103,500 | £146,246 | 552 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 527 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 497 |
| 2012 | £98,200 | £144,538 | 428 |
| 2011 | £96,000 | £144,923 | 481 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 403 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 351 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 531 |
| 2007 | £111,500 | £189,135 | 1,016 |
| 2006 | £112,000 | £194,418 | 833 |
| 2005 | £99,000 | £176,180 | 729 |
| 2004 | £93,000 | £168,906 | 865 |
| 2003 | £70,000 | £128,957 | 868 |
| 2002 | £58,500 | £110,067 | 1,029 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 801 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 697 |
| 1999 | £48,800 | £97,256 | 654 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 686 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 705 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 580 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 484 |
In cash terms the typical DH7 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 61%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH7 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 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £250,000 against £99,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, DH7
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 | £250,000 | 50 | 5,143 |
| Semi-detached | £141,100 | 94 | 6,703 |
| Terraced | £114,800 | 91 | 7,853 |
| Flats | £99,000 | 6 | 440 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 509 DH7 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 855 sales a year before the financial crisis and 536 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 tenants pay around DH7
For renting purposes DH7 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 £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 DH7 (Brandon)
How much did a house sell for in DH7 (Brandon)?
Are property prices falling in DH7 (Brandon)?
Is DH7 (Brandon) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DH7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
DH7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DH7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 115 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% above the DH7 median sold price.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Chadwick Close, Ushaw Moor, Durham
- The Larches, DURHAM, County Durham, DH7
- Phoenix Close, Langley Park, Durham, DH7, Durham
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 DH7 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. 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
DH7 ranks 4 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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DH7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DH7 0 | £216,000 | 32 |
| DH7 6 | £145,000 | 57 |
| DH7 7 | £117,000 | 41 |
| DH7 8 | £136,000 | 61 |
| DH7 9 | £145,000 | 50 |
How DH7 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 (this report) | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Selling in DH7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH7, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working DH7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH7 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.
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.