Bell Avenue, Durham house prices are built from 175 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2012 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £140,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +19.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.6%.
Median price paid
£140,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+19.2%
Change in real terms
-13.6%
HM Land Registry175 salesLatest sale 17 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Bell Avenue, Durham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bell Avenue, Durham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2012 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 7 | £157,450 | £222,005 |
| 2020s | 5 | £154,950 | £158,318 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bell Avenue, Durham is £196,500 in 2022; the lowest is £125,750 in 2020. Across the full 14-year record the cash median has moved from £127,995 to £154,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £191,179, so the real change over the whole record is -17.2% — about -1.44% 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: +19.2% in cash against -13.6% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 88 | 22 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £147,500 | £150,707 |
| 48 | 21 Aug 2025 | Detached | £277,000 | £283,022 |
| 63 | 25 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £154,950 | £158,318 |
| 100 | 19 May 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 23 | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 33 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 78 | 8 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 56 | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £156,500 | £164,675 |
| 55 | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £145,000 | £152,575 |
| 120 | 20 Dec 2023 | Detached | £122,669 | £132,539 |
| 95 | 28 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £162,000 | £175,034 |
| 72 | 10 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 44 | 3 Mar 2023 | Detached | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 61 | 27 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £155,000 | £167,471 |
| 116 | 27 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £119,500 | £129,115 |
| 67 | 11 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £149,000 | £172,629 |
| 110 | 7 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 45 | 19 Aug 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 5 | 26 Jul 2022 | Detached | £240,500 | £278,640 |
| 99 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 20 | 26 May 2022 | Detached | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 24 | 16 Feb 2022 | Detached | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 59 | 14 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £153,000 | £177,264 |
| 92 | 20 Dec 2021 | Detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Bell Avenue, Durham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 Bell Avenue | £134,950 (2015) | £160,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.6% |
| 88 Bell Avenue | £99,950 (2015) | £147,500 (2025) | +4.0% | +0.7% |
| 48 Bell Avenue | £189,950 (2015) | £277,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +0.6% |
| 63 Bell Avenue | £120,000 (2014) | £154,950 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.8% |
| 100 Bell Avenue | £114,950 (2016) | £160,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 23 Bell Avenue | £121,000 (2012) | £150,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -1.3% |
| 33 Bell Avenue | £164,950 (2014) | £200,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.2% |
| 78 Bell Avenue | £124,950 (2016) | £155,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.8% |
| 55 Bell Avenue | £132,950 (2014) | £145,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.2% |
| 120 Bell Avenue | £189,950 (2016) | £122,669 (2023) | -6.1% | -9.4% |
| 95 Bell Avenue | £119,950 (2015) | £162,000 (2023) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 72 Bell Avenue | £129,950 (2016) | £165,000 (2023) | +3.5% | -0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bell Avenue, Durham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 84 | 48.0% | £129,950 | £99,950 – £200,000 |
| Detached | 63 | 36.0% | £200,000 | £122,669 – £277,000 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 16.0% | £131,500 | £99,950 – £183,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bell Avenue, Durham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 175 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 175 | 100.0% | £140,000 |
| New build | 96 | 54.9% | £134,950 |
| Existing home | 79 | 45.1% | £150,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.0%. 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 11 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.
Section 07
Living in Bell Avenue, Durham
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
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 £140,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.49% 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.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DH6, 14 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 11.9 times quieter.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.03 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Bell Avenue, Durham
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.
13 state and independent schools have a DH6 postcode: 13 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatley Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 445 |
| Bowburn Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 438 |
| Coxhoe Primary School | Primary | Community school | 309 |
| Shotton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 289 |
| South Hetton Primary | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 202 |
| Pittington Primary School | Primary | Community school | 196 |
| Sherburn Primary School | Primary | Community school | 176 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Shotton | Primary | Academy converter | 156 |
| Kelloe Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 124 |
| Thornley Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 124 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Durham Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Horden | Rail | 10.1 km |
| Seaham Rail Station | Rail | 12.2 km |
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 13.5 km |
Section 09
How Bell Avenue, Durham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bell Avenue, Durham sits below that national figure — -11.1%.
Within Durham the street ranks 517 of 1624 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+33.3%).
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 £99,950 to £277,000. 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.
Bell Avenue, Durham 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Durham Road£85,000 median
- Ashbourne Drive£97,750 median
- Priors Grange£127,000 median
- Hadleigh Court£57,975 median
- Victoria Street£45,000 median
- Dunelm Road£63,500 median
- Moor Crescent£120,000 median
- George Street£65,000 median
- Browning Hill£124,995 median
- Runcie Road£68,823 median
- Grange Way£127,250 median
- Petterson Dale£97,000 median
- Woodland Crescent£65,000 median
- Church Street£63,500 median
- Beechfield Rise£148,000 median
- Cottingham Grove£154,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 56 Bell Avenue4 sales
- 23 Bell Avenue4 sales
- 34 Bell Avenue4 sales
- 27 Bell Avenue4 sales
- 88 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 100 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 72 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 116 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 67 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 5 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 50 Bell Avenue3 sales
- 48 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 63 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 33 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 78 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 55 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 120 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 95 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 44 Bell Avenue2 sales
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- 110 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 45 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 99 Bell Avenue2 sales
- 20 Bell Avenue2 sales
Back to Durham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bell Avenue, Durham?
The median price paid in Bell Avenue, Durham across every sale on the register is £140,000. 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 Bell Avenue, Durham?
175 sales are on record for Bell Avenue, Durham, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bell Avenue, Durham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +19.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bell Avenue, Durham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £196,500, set in 2022. 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 Bell Avenue, Durham?
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 17 Apr 2026. 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, “Bell Avenue, Durham 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.