Highsteads, Consett house prices

Highsteads, Consett house prices are built from 122 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 14 Jun 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £114,995. Across the 10 years from 1998 to 2008 the median moved +100.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +62.3%.

HM Land Registry122 salesLatest sale 14 Jun 2024

The chart tracks the median Highsteads, Consett house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2008. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Highsteads, Consett is £222,000 in 2005; the lowest is £82,500 in 1995. Across the full 14-year record the cash median has moved from £82,500 to £217,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £183,189, so the real change over the whole record is +99.3% — about +5.45% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +100.5% in cash against +62.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Highsteads, Consett values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highsteads, Consett is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 122 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -46.4%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 1 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £114,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.69% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a DH8 postcode: 16 primary, 1 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highsteads, Consett sits below that national figure — -27.0%.

Within Consett the street ranks 171 of 520 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £94,500 (+21.7%).

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.

The full range on record runs from £55,000 to £350,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Highsteads, Consett sits in County Durham, in the North East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Durham Road£75,000 median
• Medomsley Road£84,950 median
• Benfieldside Road£105,000 median
• Fenwick Way£160,000 median
• Greenways£81,250 median
• Second Street£56,000 median
• Langdon Close£206,995 median
• Chapel Drive£126,625 median
• Front Street£67,000 median
• Hallgarth£79,995 median
• Arkless Grove£105,000 median
• Holwick Close£155,500 median
• First Street£60,250 median
• Third Street£47,500 median
• Redmire Drive£166,077 median
• Romany Drive£56,950 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 53 Highsteads7 sales
• 4 Highsteads5 sales
• 44 Highsteads5 sales
• 9 Highsteads4 sales
• 17 Highsteads4 sales
• 6 Highsteads4 sales
• 12 Highsteads4 sales
• 3 Highsteads4 sales
• 2 Highsteads3 sales
• 47 Highsteads3 sales
• 43 Highsteads3 sales
• 36 Highsteads3 sales
• 49 Highsteads3 sales
• 24 Highsteads3 sales
• 18 Highsteads3 sales
• 45 Highsteads3 sales
• 19 Highsteads3 sales
• 51 Highsteads3 sales
• 31 Highsteads3 sales
• 40 Highsteads3 sales
• 10 Highsteads3 sales
• 27 Highsteads2 sales
• 29 Highsteads2 sales
• 38 Highsteads2 sales

Back to Consett house prices.

What is the average house price in Highsteads, Consett?

The median price paid in Highsteads, Consett across every sale on the register is £114,995. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Highsteads, Consett?

122 sales are on record for Highsteads, Consett, the most recent completing on 14 Jun 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Highsteads, Consett house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +100.5% between 1998 and 2008. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +62.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Highsteads, Consett house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £222,000, set in 2005. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Highsteads, Consett?

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 14 Jun 2024. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Highsteads, Consett house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.