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Dipton market report DH9, Stanley
The DH9 (Dipton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 17,879 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH9 (Stanley) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 187 registered 2026 sales put the DH9 (Stanley) median at £110,000, up 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £129,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,340 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,879 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district DH9 covering Dipton, Stanley, Annfield Plain sits in Stanley. 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 DH9 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 DH9
The DH9 median stands at £110,000 for 2026, built from 187 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £129,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in DH9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH9 sales average about £1,340 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DH9 trades 61% below the country as a whole.
A typical DH9 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 | £110,000 | £110,000 | 187 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 541 |
| 2024 | £100,000 | £106,321 | 489 |
| 2023 | £95,000 | £104,382 | 487 |
| 2022 | £100,000 | £117,261 | 641 |
| 2021 | £90,000 | £113,952 | 601 |
| 2020 | £90,000 | £116,777 | 480 |
| 2019 | £95,000 | £124,522 | 575 |
| 2018 | £93,000 | £123,971 | 534 |
| 2017 | £84,400 | £115,113 | 542 |
| 2016 | £83,200 | £116,398 | 494 |
| 2015 | £81,500 | £115,160 | 530 |
| 2014 | £76,200 | £108,103 | 468 |
| 2013 | £76,800 | £110,508 | 412 |
| 2012 | £77,800 | £114,512 | 368 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 380 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 433 |
| 2009 | £88,000 | £141,461 | 411 |
| 2008 | £94,000 | £154,086 | 555 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 1,123 |
| 2006 | £83,800 | £145,466 | 916 |
| 2005 | £80,000 | £142,368 | 748 |
| 2004 | £65,000 | £118,053 | 831 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 819 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 760 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 763 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 576 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 455 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 459 |
| 1997 | £31,000 | £63,575 | 449 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 440 |
| 1995 | £29,500 | £64,128 | 412 |
In cash terms the typical DH9 home went from £29,500 in 1995 to £110,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 72%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH9 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 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.8%). 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) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 61% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £260,000 against £70,000 for a flat, 3.7 times the price.
Median by property type, DH9
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 | £255,000 | 21 | 2,763 |
| Semi-detached | £140,000 | 51 | 3,850 |
| Terraced | £90,800 | 114 | 10,875 |
| Flats | £70,000 (2025) | – | 384 |
Sales activity in DH9
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
DH9 recorded 422 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 817 sales a year before the financial crisis and 469 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around DH9
The local authority for DH9 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £110,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: 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.
How DH9 trades
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. By median price DH9 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
DH9 (Dipton): the questions that come up
Is DH9 (Dipton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH9 (Dipton)?
Are property prices falling in DH9 (Dipton)?
Where do DH9 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 DH9 today
Everything above is what homes in DH9 sold for. The live side of the market holds 18 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the DH9 median sold price.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 DH9 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%) | — | — |
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
DH9 ranks 1 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.
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.
Inside DH9, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DH9 0 | £160,000 | 25 |
| DH9 6 | £108,000 | 49 |
| DH9 7 | £80,000 | 53 |
| DH9 8 | £122,500 | 32 |
| DH9 9 | £145,000 | 28 |
How DH9 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 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 (this report) | £110,000 | +22% |
Selling in DH9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH9, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH9.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual DH9 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.