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Ouston market report DH2 2, Chester Le Street
The DH2 2 (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: 5,217 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH2 2 (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: the 2026 median for DH2 2 (Chester Le Street) is £150,500, from 54 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £179,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,970 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,217 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like DH2 2 is a single group of streets within DH2 (Chester Le Street), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DH2 2 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 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 54 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH2 2 home went for £150,500. The mean is £179,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
DH2 2 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in DH2 2 have sold for about £1,970 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH2 2 runs 47% below it.
A typical DH2 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £150,500 | £150,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £158,000 | £161,778 | 163 |
| 2024 | £181,200 | £192,653 | 154 |
| 2023 | £164,000 | £180,196 | 155 |
| 2022 | £176,000 | £206,380 | 204 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 241 |
| 2020 | £152,500 | £197,872 | 143 |
| 2019 | £123,500 | £161,879 | 164 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 146 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 172 |
| 2016 | £123,500 | £172,778 | 162 |
| 2015 | £126,000 | £178,038 | 199 |
| 2014 | £137,000 | £194,358 | 172 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 152 |
| 2012 | £97,800 | £143,949 | 84 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 129 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 87 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 82 |
| 2008 | £127,400 | £208,835 | 96 |
| 2007 | £117,000 | £198,465 | 193 |
| 2006 | £117,000 | £203,097 | 176 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 152 |
| 2004 | £93,000 | £168,906 | 187 |
| 2003 | £80,800 | £148,853 | 194 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 216 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 187 |
| 2000 | £53,600 | £105,190 | 167 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 157 |
| 1998 | £53,800 | £108,599 | 173 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 218 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 199 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 239 |
In cash terms the typical DH2 2 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £150,500 in 2026, roughly 2.5 times the price. Deflate those figures and little remains: roughly 13% in real terms, which says the pounds changed more than the homes did. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH2 2 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 2003 (+46.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.7% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in DH2 2
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
DH2 2 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 146 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.
What homes rent for around DH2 2
For renting purposes DH2 2 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £150,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How DH2 2 trades
This is a thin market: 54 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. Within DH2, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: DH2 2 (Ouston)
Are property prices falling in DH2 2 (Ouston)?
Is DH2 2 (Ouston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH2 2 (Ouston)?
Will DH2 2 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in DH2 today
The live side of the market holds 27 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH2 district, not just DH2 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
41% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Rowan Walk, High Hold, Pelton, Chester Le Street
- Cedar Avenue, Chester Le Street, Durh...
- Wensley Close, Ouston, Chester Le Street, 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 DH2 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. 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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £176,200 | 58 |
| 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 2: 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 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH2 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH2 2 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 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH2 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DH2 2 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.