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Blackhill market report DH8, Consett
The DH8 (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: 21,192 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH8 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DH8 (Consett) home changed hands for £140,000 in 2026 (median of 221 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £176,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,710 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,192 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district DH8 covering Consett, Blackhill, Bridgehill sits in Consett. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DH8 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.
DH8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the DH8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £140,000, from 221 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £176,100, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
DH8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DH8 costs about £1,710 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH8 51% below the country at large.
A typical DH8 home, priced year by year (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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 221 |
| 2025 | £147,000 | £150,515 | 681 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 618 |
| 2023 | £138,000 | £151,628 | 551 |
| 2022 | £128,000 | £150,095 | 672 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 751 |
| 2020 | £120,500 | £156,351 | 540 |
| 2019 | £112,000 | £146,805 | 674 |
| 2018 | £116,000 | £154,630 | 689 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 734 |
| 2016 | £111,500 | £155,990 | 620 |
| 2015 | £112,800 | £159,386 | 580 |
| 2014 | £107,000 | £151,798 | 558 |
| 2013 | £104,000 | £149,646 | 538 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 434 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 530 |
| 2010 | £103,000 | £161,531 | 459 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 419 |
| 2008 | £108,500 | £177,854 | 526 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 1,159 |
| 2006 | £116,000 | £201,361 | 1,017 |
| 2005 | £116,500 | £207,323 | 836 |
| 2004 | £104,500 | £189,792 | 1,082 |
| 2003 | £69,000 | £127,115 | 1,020 |
| 2002 | £51,000 | £95,956 | 946 |
| 2001 | £44,700 | £85,933 | 790 |
| 2000 | £45,000 | £88,313 | 765 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 613 |
| 1998 | £39,500 | £79,734 | 610 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 579 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 533 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 447 |
In cash terms the typical DH8 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 89%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2005; the current median sits about 32% 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 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 (+51.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £284,000 against £68,000 for a flat, 4.2 times the price.
Median by property type, DH8
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 | £275,000 | 45 | 5,389 |
| Semi-detached | £158,500 | 78 | 6,306 |
| Terraced | £110,000 | 95 | 8,994 |
| Flats | £68,000 (2025) | – | 500 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.8% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH8
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 486 DH8 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 952 sales a year before the financial crisis and 549 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
For renting purposes DH8 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £140,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
DH8 (Blackhill): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DH8 (Blackhill)?
Are property prices falling in DH8 (Blackhill)?
Is DH8 (Blackhill) a good place to buy a house?
Where do DH8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in DH8 today
Everything above is what homes in DH8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 58 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the DH8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DH8 ranks 6 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.
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.
Inside DH8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 8 | £132,500 | 32 |
| DH8 9 | £227,200 | 14 |
How DH8 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 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 (this report) | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Before you sell in DH8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual DH8 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.