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Great Lumley market report DH3 2, Chester Le Street
The standing DH3 2 (Great Lumley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,489 HM Land Registry entries for DH3 2 (Chester Le Street), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DH3 2 (Chester Le Street) is £193,000, from 25 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £192,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,489 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DH3 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DH3 (Chester Le Street). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where DH3 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.
What a home in DH3 2 sells for
25 sales were registered in DH3 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £193,000. The mean works out at £192,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in DH3 2
By floor space, homes in DH3 2 have sold for about £2,170 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH3 2 32% below the national figure.
A typical DH3 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 99 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 94 |
| 2023 | £182,200 | £200,193 | 80 |
| 2022 | £181,000 | £212,243 | 100 |
| 2021 | £176,000 | £222,839 | 146 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 117 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 132 |
| 2018 | £170,000 | £226,613 | 108 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 41 |
| 2016 | £99,000 | £138,502 | 55 |
| 2015 | £106,200 | £150,061 | 50 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 43 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 65 |
| 2012 | £110,600 | £162,789 | 56 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 31 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 49 |
| 2009 | £122,500 | £196,920 | 48 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 81 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 117 |
| 2006 | £112,500 | £195,286 | 92 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 66 |
| 2004 | £118,800 | £215,764 | 102 |
| 2003 | £78,500 | £144,616 | 99 |
| 2002 | £62,000 | £116,652 | 78 |
| 2001 | £50,000 | £96,122 | 81 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 79 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 76 |
| 1998 | £49,200 | £99,314 | 68 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 69 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 82 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical DH3 2 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 106%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH3 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 2004 (+51.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−13.5%). 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) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.9% | +3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in DH3 2
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 25 DH3 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 80 sales a year recently, against 89 a year before 2008. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market DH3 2 is
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH3 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within DH3, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around DH3 2
The local authority for DH3 2 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.
Against the £193,000 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Asked and answered: DH3 2 (Great Lumley)
How much did a house sell for in DH3 2 (Great Lumley)?
Are property prices falling in DH3 2 (Great Lumley)?
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Where do DH3 2 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in DH3 today
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH3 district, not just DH3 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Queen Street, Birtley, Chester Le Street
- Riding Hill, Great Lumley, Chester Le Street
- Cestrian Court, Newcastle Road, Chester Le Street
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 DH3 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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 1 | £167,500 | 43 |
| 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.
Before you sell in DH3 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH3 2'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.
Estate agents working DH3 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH3 2.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DH3 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH3 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.