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Blackhill market report DH8 8, Consett
The DH8 8 (Blackhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,930 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH8 8 (Consett) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DH8 8 (Consett) sold for £132,500 in 2026, the median of 32 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £151,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,520 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,930 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH8 8 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 8 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 8 prices, from the sold record
32 sales were registered in DH8 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £132,500. The mean works out at £151,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in DH8 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DH8 8 costs about £1,520 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH8 8 runs 54% below it.
DH8 8'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 | £132,500 | £132,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £129,000 | £132,085 | 82 |
| 2024 | £120,000 | £127,585 | 77 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 67 |
| 2022 | £110,000 | £128,988 | 94 |
| 2021 | £110,000 | £139,274 | 82 |
| 2020 | £96,500 | £125,211 | 73 |
| 2019 | £87,000 | £114,036 | 102 |
| 2018 | £87,500 | £116,639 | 91 |
| 2017 | £82,500 | £112,522 | 86 |
| 2016 | £79,200 | £110,802 | 76 |
| 2015 | £86,000 | £121,518 | 77 |
| 2014 | £86,000 | £122,006 | 78 |
| 2013 | £93,500 | £134,537 | 80 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 64 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 109 |
| 2010 | £98,900 | £155,101 | 94 |
| 2009 | £99,700 | £160,269 | 74 |
| 2008 | £98,000 | £160,643 | 88 |
| 2007 | £94,000 | £159,450 | 159 |
| 2006 | £94,000 | £163,172 | 107 |
| 2005 | £82,500 | £146,817 | 82 |
| 2004 | £84,000 | £152,560 | 131 |
| 2003 | £63,000 | £116,061 | 171 |
| 2002 | £48,500 | £91,252 | 127 |
| 2001 | £48,000 | £92,278 | 123 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 122 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 89 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 68 |
| 1997 | £34,500 | £70,753 | 76 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 67 |
| 1995 | £35,200 | £76,519 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical DH8 8 home went from £35,200 in 1995 to £132,500 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 73%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH8 8 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH8 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.3% | +1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in DH8 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 128 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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.
What homes rent for around DH8 8
DH8 8 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £132,500 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the DH8 8 market
This is a thin market: 32 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.
Common questions on DH8 8 (Blackhill)
How much did a house sell for in DH8 8 (Blackhill)?
Are property prices falling in DH8 8 (Blackhill)?
Is DH8 8 (Blackhill) a good place to buy a house?
Are DH8 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 8: 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
"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 →
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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
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 6 | £135,000 | 43 |
| DH8 7 | £124,200 | 54 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH8 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH8 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH8 8 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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH8 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DH8 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.