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Great Lumley market report DH3 1, Chester Le Street
The DH3 1 (Great Lumley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,695 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH3 1 (Chester Le Street) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DH3 1 (Chester Le Street) came in at £167,500, out of 43 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £186,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,850 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,695 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DH3 1 is one sector of DH3 (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 DH3 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 DH3 1 prices, from the sold record
43 sales were registered in DH3 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £167,500. The mean works out at £186,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in DH3 1
Per square metre, DH3 1 homes have averaged around £1,850 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH3 1 41% below the national figure.
DH3 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £167,500 | £167,500 | 43 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 133 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 125 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 97 |
| 2022 | £157,500 | £184,687 | 81 |
| 2021 | £147,000 | £186,121 | 150 |
| 2020 | £206,500 | £267,938 | 130 |
| 2019 | £171,000 | £224,140 | 134 |
| 2018 | £175,000 | £233,278 | 107 |
| 2017 | £187,000 | £255,049 | 117 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 125 |
| 2015 | £178,000 | £251,514 | 121 |
| 2014 | £141,200 | £200,317 | 126 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 107 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 151 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 81 |
| 2010 | £132,400 | £207,637 | 68 |
| 2009 | £85,800 | £137,924 | 34 |
| 2008 | £122,500 | £200,803 | 83 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 163 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 149 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 123 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 188 |
| 2003 | £85,500 | £157,512 | 230 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 170 |
| 2001 | £40,500 | £77,859 | 115 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 101 |
| 1999 | £34,000 | £67,760 | 86 |
| 1998 | £38,200 | £77,109 | 98 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 89 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 106 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical DH3 1 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £167,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 37% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH3 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 2002 (+72.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−30.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −23.9% | −25.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
DH3 1 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How DH3 1 trades
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH3 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
The rental side of DH3 1
The local authority for DH3 1 is Gateshead, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,179, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Gateshead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £167,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
Asked and answered: DH3 1 (Great Lumley)
Are property prices falling in DH3 1 (Great Lumley)?
Is DH3 1 (Great Lumley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH3 1 (Great Lumley)?
Will DH3 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in DH3 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH3 district, not just DH3 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Queen Street, Birtley, Chester Le Street
- Riding Hill, Great Lumley, Chester Le Street
- Cestrian Court, Newcastle Road, Chester Le Street
"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 DH3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, DH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DH3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH3 2 | £193,000 | 25 |
| DH3 3 | £122,500 | 44 |
| DH3 4 | £205,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full DH3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DH3 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH3 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH3 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH3 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 DH3 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH3 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH3 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.