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Chilton market report DL17 8, Ferryhill
The standing DL17 8 (Chilton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,459 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DL17 8 (Ferryhill) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical DL17 8 (Ferryhill) home changed hands for £95,000 in 2026 (median of 39 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier), with the mean at £107,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,180 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,459 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DL17 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DL17 (Ferryhill). 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 DL17 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.
What a home in DL17 8 sells for
Across 39 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DL17 8 home went for £95,000. The mean is £107,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in DL17 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DL17 8 costs about £1,180 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 DL17 8 67% below the country at large.
The price of a typical DL17 8 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £95,000 | £95,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £88,000 | £90,104 | 137 |
| 2024 | £86,000 | £91,436 | 125 |
| 2023 | £77,000 | £84,604 | 117 |
| 2022 | £80,000 | £93,809 | 117 |
| 2021 | £76,000 | £96,226 | 136 |
| 2020 | £47,800 | £62,021 | 116 |
| 2019 | £52,000 | £68,160 | 99 |
| 2018 | £53,500 | £71,317 | 141 |
| 2017 | £40,000 | £54,556 | 125 |
| 2016 | £54,500 | £76,246 | 112 |
| 2015 | £62,800 | £88,736 | 88 |
| 2014 | £58,000 | £82,283 | 119 |
| 2013 | £49,000 | £70,506 | 81 |
| 2012 | £53,500 | £78,745 | 72 |
| 2011 | £65,000 | £98,125 | 89 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 66 |
| 2009 | £69,000 | £110,918 | 66 |
| 2008 | £68,000 | £111,466 | 128 |
| 2007 | £76,500 | £129,765 | 260 |
| 2006 | £62,800 | £109,013 | 232 |
| 2005 | £55,200 | £98,234 | 206 |
| 2004 | £46,700 | £84,816 | 234 |
| 2003 | £34,200 | £63,005 | 337 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 271 |
| 2001 | £33,000 | £63,441 | 165 |
| 2000 | £32,500 | £63,781 | 164 |
| 1999 | £27,000 | £53,810 | 98 |
| 1998 | £28,500 | £57,529 | 132 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 115 |
| 1996 | £26,000 | £54,833 | 133 |
| 1995 | £27,500 | £59,781 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical DL17 8 home went from £27,500 in 1995 to £95,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 59%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DL17 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 2021 (+59.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−26.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL17 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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 DL17 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 39 DL17 8 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 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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.
How DL17 8 trades
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL17 8 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 DL17 district median, DL17 8 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of DL17 8
For renting purposes DL17 8 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.
Set against the £95,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 8.1%: 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.
What people ask about DL17 8 (Chilton)
Is DL17 8 (Chilton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL17 8 (Chilton)?
Are property prices falling in DL17 8 (Chilton)?
What happens to DL17 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
DL17's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 74 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL17 district, not just DL17 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Birch Road, West Cornforth, Ferryhill, DL17 9EW, Ferryhill
- St. Aidans Way, Chilton, Ferryhill, Ferryhill
- Nable Hill Close, Chilton, Ferryhill, County Durham
"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 DL17 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DL area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £205,000 | £282,250 (+38%) | £444,995 (+58%) | £625,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £147,250 | £147,000 (0%) | £185,000 (+26%) | £282,000 (+52%) | £380,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £104,750 | £92,999 (-11%) | £112,749 (+21%) | £180,000 (+60%) | £317,000 (+76%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £118,000 (+39%) | £205,000 (+74%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DL17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DL17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL17 0 | £115,000 | 33 |
| DL17 9 | £103,500 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full DL17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DL17 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DL17 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL17 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL17 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DL17 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DL17 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL17 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DL17 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.
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.