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Blackhill market report DH8 6, Consett
The DH8 6 (Blackhill) 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: 3,830 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH8 6 (Consett) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DH8 6 (Consett) came in at £135,000, out of 43 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £146,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,530 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,830 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like DH8 6 is a single group of streets within DH8 (Consett), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DH8 6 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.
The going rate for a home in DH8 6
The 2026 median for DH8 6 is £135,000, taken from 43 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £146,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DH8 6 prices by floor area
A square metre of DH8 6 home has cost about £1,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DH8 6 sits 53% below the national market.
A typical DH8 6 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 | £135,000 | £135,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £125,000 | £127,989 | 107 |
| 2024 | £126,000 | £133,964 | 100 |
| 2023 | £112,000 | £123,061 | 83 |
| 2022 | £117,000 | £137,196 | 119 |
| 2021 | £116,000 | £146,871 | 116 |
| 2020 | £94,000 | £121,967 | 79 |
| 2019 | £89,800 | £117,706 | 112 |
| 2018 | £95,000 | £126,637 | 119 |
| 2017 | £106,200 | £144,846 | 126 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 106 |
| 2015 | £96,000 | £135,648 | 109 |
| 2014 | £89,000 | £126,262 | 84 |
| 2013 | £79,500 | £114,393 | 83 |
| 2012 | £83,500 | £122,902 | 69 |
| 2011 | £84,500 | £127,563 | 76 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 75 |
| 2009 | £117,000 | £188,078 | 60 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 98 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 225 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 174 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 162 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 259 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 214 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 156 |
| 2001 | £37,500 | £72,092 | 159 |
| 2000 | £42,200 | £82,818 | 152 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 81 |
| 1998 | £39,500 | £79,734 | 147 |
| 1997 | £38,900 | £79,776 | 126 |
| 1996 | £37,000 | £78,031 | 114 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical DH8 6 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £135,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 94%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH8 6 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 2003 (+78.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 43 DH8 6 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 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around DH8 6
For renting purposes DH8 6 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £447 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £982, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £135,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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 kind of market DH8 6 is
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH8 6 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.
Asked and answered: DH8 6 (Blackhill)
How much did a house sell for in DH8 6 (Blackhill)?
Are property prices falling in DH8 6 (Blackhill)?
Is DH8 6 (Blackhill) a good place to buy a house?
Will DH8 6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in DH8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 58 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH8 district, not just DH8 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
- Rolling Mill, Consett, Consett
- Bells Wood Court, Consett, Consett
- Cleadon Street, Consett, Consett, DH8, Consett
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in DH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DH area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DH8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH8 0 | £220,000 | 30 |
| DH8 5 | £133,000 | 48 |
| 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 in DH8 6? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH8 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH8 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH8 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DH8 6.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual DH8 6 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.