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Ouston market report DH2 1, Chester Le Street
The DH2 1 (Ouston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,573 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH2 1 (Chester Le Street) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 58 registered 2026 sales put the DH2 1 (Chester Le Street) median at £176,200, up 34% on five years earlier, with a mean of £198,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,950 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,573 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DH2 1 is one sector of DH2 (Chester Le Street): 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 DH2 1 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.
Today's DH2 1 prices, from the sold record
58 sales were registered in DH2 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £176,200. The mean works out at £198,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in DH2 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DH2 1 costs about £1,950 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 DH2 1 38% below the country at large.
DH2 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £176,200 | £176,200 | 58 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 166 |
| 2024 | £179,000 | £190,314 | 171 |
| 2023 | £153,500 | £168,659 | 142 |
| 2022 | £157,000 | £184,100 | 202 |
| 2021 | £131,200 | £166,116 | 164 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 99 |
| 2019 | £124,500 | £163,190 | 154 |
| 2018 | £127,500 | £169,960 | 140 |
| 2017 | £129,000 | £175,943 | 160 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 137 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 136 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 109 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 118 |
| 2012 | £103,800 | £152,781 | 68 |
| 2011 | £118,000 | £178,135 | 86 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 104 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 81 |
| 2008 | £118,800 | £194,738 | 118 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 279 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 281 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 272 |
| 2004 | £96,000 | £174,355 | 254 |
| 2003 | £67,500 | £124,351 | 261 |
| 2002 | £58,700 | £110,444 | 266 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 255 |
| 2000 | £44,600 | £87,528 | 208 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 227 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 223 |
| 1997 | £45,200 | £92,696 | 267 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 194 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical DH2 1 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £176,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH2 1 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 2004 (+42.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−12.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH2 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.1% | +1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in DH2 1
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
DH2 1 recorded 58 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 260 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 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.
The rental side of DH2 1
The local authority for DH2 1 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £176,200 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the DH2 1 market
This is a thin market: 58 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
DH2 1 (Ouston): the questions that come up
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What happens to DH2 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DH2's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 27 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH2 district, not just DH2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
41% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Rowan Walk, High Hold, Pelton, Chester Le Street
- Cedar Avenue, Chester Le Street, Durh...
- Wensley Close, Ouston, Chester Le Street, 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 DH2 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH 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 | — | £194,950 | £270,000 (+38%) | £415,000 (+54%) | £550,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £133,250 | £140,000 (+5%) | £174,000 (+24%) | £262,000 (+51%) | £430,000 (+64%) |
| Terraced | £90,000 | £94,000 (+4%) | £111,000 (+18%) | £166,130 (+50%) | £322,500 (+94%) |
| Flat | £79,950 | £120,300 (+50%) | £205,153 (+71%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in DH2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH2 2 | £150,500 | 54 |
| DH2 3 | £172,500 | 47 |
Zoom out to the full DH2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in DH2 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH2 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH2 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH2 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH2 1.
Dig further
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See every individual DH2 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.