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Blackhill market report DH8 0, Consett
The DH8 0 (Blackhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,688 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH8 0 (Consett) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in DH8 0 (Consett) sold for £220,000 in 2026, the median of 30 registered sales, up 31% on five years earlier. The mean was £237,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,990 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,688 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH8 0 is one sector of DH8 (Consett): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DH8 0 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 DH8 0
Across 30 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH8 0 home went for £220,000. The mean is £237,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in DH8 0
Per square metre, DH8 0 homes have averaged around £1,990 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH8 0 23% below the national figure.
DH8 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 111 |
| 2024 | £186,200 | £197,969 | 102 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 97 |
| 2022 | £162,500 | £190,550 | 118 |
| 2021 | £168,500 | £213,343 | 146 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 94 |
| 2019 | £130,000 | £170,399 | 131 |
| 2018 | £157,000 | £209,284 | 135 |
| 2017 | £163,800 | £223,407 | 142 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 121 |
| 2015 | £174,000 | £245,862 | 134 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 117 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 123 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 73 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 84 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 61 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 61 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 61 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 168 |
| 2006 | £125,500 | £217,852 | 136 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 107 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 126 |
| 2003 | £82,000 | £151,064 | 151 |
| 2002 | £62,000 | £116,652 | 172 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 149 |
| 2000 | £56,500 | £110,881 | 149 |
| 1999 | £61,500 | £122,566 | 172 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 119 |
| 1997 | £45,400 | £93,106 | 108 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 117 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical DH8 0 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 111%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2015. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH8 0 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 (+63.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−17.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH8 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.2% | +19.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.5% | +0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH8 0
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.
DH8 0 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of DH8 0
The local authority for DH8 0 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
How DH8 0 trades
This is a thin market: 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within DH8, this sector trades 57% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
DH8 0 (Blackhill): the questions that come up
Is DH8 0 (Blackhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH8 0 (Blackhill)?
Are property prices falling in DH8 0 (Blackhill)?
Where do DH8 0 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 31% over five years in cash and up 3% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in DH8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH8 district, not just DH8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Rolling Mill, Consett, Consett
- Bells Wood Court, Consett, Consett
- Cleadon Street, Consett, Consett, DH8, Consett
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DH8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DH area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DH8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DH8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH8 5 | £133,000 | 48 |
| DH8 6 | £135,000 | 43 |
| DH8 7 | £124,200 | 54 |
| DH8 8 | £132,500 | 32 |
| DH8 9 | £227,200 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full DH8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DH8 0? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH8 0'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH8 0.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual DH8 0 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.
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.