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Chilton market report DL17 9, Ferryhill
The DL17 9 (Chilton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,941 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DL17 9 (Ferryhill) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DL17 9 (Ferryhill) is £103,500, from 12 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £119,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,310 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,941 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DL17 9 is one sector of DL17 (Ferryhill): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where DL17 9 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 buyers actually paid in DL17 9
The DL17 9 median stands at £103,500 for 2026, built from 12 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £119,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DL17 9 prices by floor area
Per square metre, DL17 9 homes have averaged around £1,310 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DL17 9 runs 64% below it.
The price of a typical DL17 9 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £103,500 | £103,500 | 12 |
| 2025 | £110,000 | £112,630 | 53 |
| 2024 | £102,000 | £108,447 | 77 |
| 2023 | £92,000 | £101,086 | 47 |
| 2022 | £95,000 | £111,398 | 63 |
| 2021 | £102,500 | £129,778 | 68 |
| 2020 | £71,000 | £92,124 | 43 |
| 2019 | £89,500 | £117,313 | 50 |
| 2018 | £77,000 | £102,642 | 45 |
| 2017 | £75,200 | £102,565 | 52 |
| 2016 | £84,000 | £117,517 | 66 |
| 2015 | £67,500 | £95,378 | 53 |
| 2014 | £70,000 | £99,307 | 51 |
| 2013 | £82,200 | £118,278 | 58 |
| 2012 | £65,800 | £96,849 | 22 |
| 2011 | £91,200 | £137,677 | 60 |
| 2010 | £97,500 | £152,905 | 40 |
| 2009 | £98,600 | £158,500 | 48 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 53 |
| 2007 | £80,000 | £135,702 | 124 |
| 2006 | £77,000 | £133,662 | 95 |
| 2005 | £60,000 | £106,776 | 85 |
| 2004 | £49,800 | £90,447 | 112 |
| 2003 | £36,100 | £66,505 | 112 |
| 2002 | £33,800 | £63,594 | 116 |
| 2001 | £27,500 | £52,867 | 70 |
| 2000 | £29,800 | £58,483 | 50 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 59 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 45 |
| 1997 | £37,200 | £76,290 | 45 |
| 1996 | £33,200 | £70,017 | 26 |
| 1995 | £25,500 | £55,433 | 41 |
In cash terms the typical DL17 9 home went from £25,500 in 1995 to £103,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 87%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2009. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL17 9 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 (+44.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−32.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DL17 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.9% | −8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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.
Sales activity in DL17 9
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 12 sales completed in DL17 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 96 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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 DL17 9
For renting purposes DL17 9 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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 £103,500 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 7.4%: 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 DL17 9 trades
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DL17 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Asked and answered: DL17 9 (Chilton)
Are property prices falling in DL17 9 (Chilton)?
Is DL17 9 (Chilton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL17 9 (Chilton)?
What happens to DL17 9 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in DL17 now
The live side of the market holds 74 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL17 district, not just DL17 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Birch Road, West Cornforth, Ferryhill, DL17 9EW, Ferryhill
- St. Aidans Way, Chilton, Ferryhill, Ferryhill
- Nable Hill Close, Chilton, Ferryhill, County Durham
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DL17 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 DL
Real sold prices by size across the DL area, straight 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DL17, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL17 0 | £115,000 | 33 |
| DL17 8 | £95,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full DL17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DL17 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DL17 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the DL17 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DL17 9 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 DL17 9.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DL17 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DL17 9 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.