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Ouston market report DH2, Chester Le Street
The standing DH2 (Ouston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 15,902 registered sales in DH2 (Chester Le Street) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in DH2 (Chester Le Street) sold for £165,000 in 2026, the median of 159 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £196,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,950 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 15,902 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH2 is the postcode district covering Ouston, Pelton, Birtley (west of East Coast Main Line) in Chester Le Street. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where DH2 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.
The going rate for a home in DH2
The DH2 median stands at £165,000 for 2026, built from 159 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £196,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in DH2
The last five years of sales put DH2 at roughly £1,950 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DH2 trades 42% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DH2 home, 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 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 159 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 453 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 440 |
| 2023 | £158,000 | £173,603 | 422 |
| 2022 | £162,000 | £189,963 | 549 |
| 2021 | £142,800 | £180,803 | 572 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 357 |
| 2019 | £122,000 | £159,913 | 439 |
| 2018 | £132,800 | £177,025 | 424 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 463 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 424 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 466 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 411 |
| 2013 | £118,100 | £169,934 | 386 |
| 2012 | £102,200 | £150,426 | 246 |
| 2011 | £115,000 | £173,606 | 301 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 294 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 257 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 307 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 694 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 678 |
| 2005 | £111,000 | £197,535 | 631 |
| 2004 | £96,000 | £174,355 | 664 |
| 2003 | £74,700 | £137,616 | 726 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 723 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 716 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 598 |
| 1999 | £51,200 | £102,039 | 582 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 588 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 710 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 588 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 634 |
In cash terms the typical DH2 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 39%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH2 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 (+28.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £77,500 for a flat, 4.1 times the price.
Median by property type, DH2
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £320,000 | 45 | 3,947 |
| Semi-detached | £168,000 | 55 | 5,278 |
| Terraced | £117,500 | 49 | 5,744 |
| Flats | £77,500 | 10 | 933 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.1% | +0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH2
Sales per year, counted
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
DH2 recorded 337 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 679 sales a year before the financial crisis and 405 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 kind of market DH2 is
DH2 sits 3 of 9 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around DH2
The local authority for DH2 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £165,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
DH2 (Ouston): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DH2 (Ouston)?
Are property prices falling in DH2 (Ouston)?
Is DH2 (Ouston) a good place to buy a house?
Will DH2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in DH2 right now
Everything above is what homes in DH2 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 27 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the DH2 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 41% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DH2 ranks 2 of 9 in the DH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
DH area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DH2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH2 1 | £176,200 | 58 |
| DH2 2 | £150,500 | 54 |
| DH2 3 | £172,500 | 47 |
How DH2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 | £235,000 | +9% |
| DH3 | £170,000 | -2% |
| DH2 (this report) | £165,000 | +16% |
| DH4 | £152,500 | -5% |
| DH5 | £149,500 | +11% |
| DH7 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Thinking of selling in DH2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH2.
Dig further
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See every individual DH2 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.