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Great Lumley market report DH3 3, Chester Le Street
The DH3 3 (Great Lumley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,666 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH3 3 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical DH3 3 (Chester Le Street) home changed hands for £122,500 in 2026 (median of 44 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £159,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,666 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DH3 3 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 3 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 DH3 3
Take the 44 registered 2026 sales in DH3 3 and the middle price, the median, is £122,500. The mean lands at £159,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in DH3 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH3 3 sales average about £1,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, DH3 3 sits 57% below the national market.
DH3 3'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £122,500 | £122,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 143 |
| 2024 | £127,500 | £135,559 | 118 |
| 2023 | £115,000 | £126,357 | 107 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 121 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 113 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 110 |
| 2019 | £118,500 | £155,325 | 100 |
| 2018 | £124,000 | £165,294 | 123 |
| 2017 | £131,500 | £179,353 | 112 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 105 |
| 2015 | £118,000 | £166,734 | 122 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 91 |
| 2013 | £119,500 | £171,949 | 87 |
| 2012 | £112,000 | £164,850 | 104 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 105 |
| 2010 | £120,800 | £189,446 | 86 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 102 |
| 2008 | £122,500 | £200,803 | 102 |
| 2007 | £148,000 | £251,049 | 283 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 274 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 201 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 183 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 243 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 219 |
| 2001 | £49,500 | £95,161 | 224 |
| 2000 | £47,000 | £92,238 | 176 |
| 1999 | £48,500 | £96,658 | 165 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 173 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 177 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 185 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical DH3 3 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £122,500 in 2026, roughly 2.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 31%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 51% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH3 3 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.5% | −14.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.3% | −3.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in DH3 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 225 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 a year over the last five. 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 homes rent for around DH3 3
DH3 3 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £447 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £982, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £122,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.2%. 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.
Reading the DH3 3 market
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH3 3 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. Against the DH3 district median, DH3 3 sits 28% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about DH3 3 (Great Lumley)
Are property prices falling in DH3 3 (Great Lumley)?
Is DH3 3 (Great Lumley) a good place to buy a house?
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Will DH3 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in DH3 now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DH
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £193,000 | 25 |
| 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 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH3 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH3 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH3 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DH3 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH3 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH3 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.