Gilesgate, Durham house prices

Gilesgate, Durham house prices are built from 168 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £161,000. Across the 12 years from 2007 to 2019 the median moved +79.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +35.1%.

HM Land Registry168 sales71 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Oct 2025

The chart tracks the median Gilesgate, Durham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2019. 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 Gilesgate, Durham is £375,000 in 2019; the lowest is £58,475 in 1996. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £64,975 to £375,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £144,275, so the real change over the whole record is +240.0% — about +5.23% 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: +79.6% in cash against +35.1% 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 Gilesgate, Durham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 150 freehold — 10.7% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £90,000 and the median freehold sale £177,000 — a gap of +96.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -48.2%. 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 32 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 £161,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.78% 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 DH1, 304 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 78 violent, 7 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 48 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.

Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.58 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.

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.

22 state and independent schools have a DH1 postcode: 16 primary, 4 secondary, 2 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. Gilesgate, Durham sits above that national figure — +2.2%.

Within Durham the street ranks 385 of 1624 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £105,000 (+53.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,791 per square metre, across 71 of the 168 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £26,000 to £765,000. 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.

Gilesgate, 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£95,000 median
• Canterbury Road£135,000 median
• The Avenue£118,525 median
• Harvey Avenue£212,250 median
• Bridgemere Drive£88,500 median
• Devonshire Road£152,750 median
• New Elvet£125,000 median
• York Crescent£136,000 median
• Broomside Lane£79,500 median
• Bek Road£109,000 median
• Grinstead Way£134,000 median
• Habgood Drive£74,000 median
• Ferens Park£185,250 median
• Rothbury Road£108,000 median
• Kirkwood Drive£284,000 median
• Durham Moor£146,950 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 122 Gilesgate5 sales
• 148 Gilesgate4 sales
• 62 Gilesgate4 sales
• 93 Gilesgate3 sales
• 199 Gilesgate3 sales
• 127 Gilesgate3 sales
• 118 Gilesgate3 sales
• 139 Gilesgate3 sales
• 117 Gilesgate3 sales
• 211 Gilesgate3 sales
• 151 Gilesgate3 sales
• 20C Gilesgate3 sales
• 131 Gilesgate3 sales
• 120 Gilesgate3 sales
• 61 Gilesgate3 sales
• 152B Gilesgate3 sales
• 171 Gilesgate3 sales
• 194 Gilesgate2 sales
• 201 Gilesgate2 sales
• 83A Gilesgate2 sales
• 144 Gilesgate2 sales
• 215 Gilesgate2 sales
• 119 Gilesgate2 sales
• 173 Gilesgate2 sales

Back to Durham house prices.

What is the average house price in Gilesgate, Durham?

The median price paid in Gilesgate, Durham across every sale on the register is £161,000. 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 Gilesgate, Durham?

168 sales are on record for Gilesgate, Durham, the most recent completing on 2 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Gilesgate, Durham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +79.6% between 2007 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +35.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Gilesgate, Durham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2019. 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 Gilesgate, Durham?

£1,791 per square metre, from the 71 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 2 Oct 2025. 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, “Gilesgate, 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.