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Blackhill market report DH8 7, Consett
The standing DH8 7 (Blackhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,025 registered sales in DH8 7 (Consett) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DH8 7 (Consett) came in at £124,200, out of 54 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £141,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,640 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,025 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DH8 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DH8 (Consett). 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 DH8 7 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 DH8 7 prices, from the sold record
Across 54 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH8 7 home went for £124,200. The mean is £141,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in DH8 7
By floor space, homes in DH8 7 have sold for about £1,640 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH8 7 56% below the national figure.
DH8 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £124,200 | £124,200 | 54 |
| 2025 | £157,000 | £160,754 | 192 |
| 2024 | £132,000 | £140,343 | 158 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 142 |
| 2022 | £110,000 | £128,988 | 161 |
| 2021 | £102,000 | £129,145 | 156 |
| 2020 | £95,000 | £123,264 | 111 |
| 2019 | £97,200 | £127,406 | 132 |
| 2018 | £95,800 | £127,703 | 124 |
| 2017 | £105,000 | £143,209 | 158 |
| 2016 | £84,000 | £117,517 | 129 |
| 2015 | £86,500 | £122,225 | 120 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 154 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 135 |
| 2012 | £84,400 | £124,226 | 108 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 168 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 117 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 117 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 147 |
| 2007 | £112,000 | £189,983 | 291 |
| 2006 | £104,000 | £180,531 | 271 |
| 2005 | £127,000 | £226,009 | 250 |
| 2004 | £112,000 | £203,414 | 347 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 279 |
| 2002 | £44,700 | £84,103 | 250 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 184 |
| 2000 | £30,200 | £59,268 | 132 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 87 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 103 |
| 1997 | £27,900 | £57,217 | 68 |
| 1996 | £27,200 | £57,364 | 96 |
| 1995 | £28,500 | £61,955 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical DH8 7 home went from £28,500 in 1995 to £124,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 100%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 45% below that. Someone who bought at the 2005 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH8 7 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 (+86.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −20.9% | −22.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH8 7
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in DH8 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 251 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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 7
DH8 7 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £124,200 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 6.2% 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.
How DH8 7 trades
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH8 7 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. Against the DH8 district median, DH8 7 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on DH8 7 (Blackhill)
Is DH8 7 (Blackhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH8 7 (Blackhill)?
Are property prices falling in DH8 7 (Blackhill)?
Will DH8 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DH8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH8 0 | £220,000 | 30 |
| DH8 5 | £133,000 | 48 |
| DH8 6 | £135,000 | 43 |
| 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.
Before you sell in DH8 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH8 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH8 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH8 7 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 DH8 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH8 7.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual DH8 7 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.