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Great Lumley market report DH3 4, Chester Le Street
The standing DH3 4 (Great Lumley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,783 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH3 4 (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.
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 4 (Chester Le Street) is £205,000, from 28 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £223,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,360 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,783 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DH3 4 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 4 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 DH3 4 homes really sell for
Across 28 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH3 4 home went for £205,000. The mean is £223,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
DH3 4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in DH3 4 have sold for about £2,360 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DH3 4 trades 28% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical DH3 4 home, 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 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 99 |
| 2024 | £229,500 | £244,006 | 101 |
| 2023 | £232,500 | £255,461 | 79 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 127 |
| 2021 | £231,500 | £293,109 | 122 |
| 2020 | £206,000 | £267,289 | 97 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 102 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 65 |
| 2017 | £168,800 | £230,226 | 82 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 68 |
| 2015 | £171,200 | £241,906 | 64 |
| 2014 | £166,000 | £235,500 | 73 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 56 |
| 2012 | £152,800 | £224,903 | 48 |
| 2011 | £162,100 | £244,709 | 36 |
| 2010 | £172,000 | £269,740 | 64 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 56 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 43 |
| 2007 | £169,000 | £286,671 | 113 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 97 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 80 |
| 2004 | £152,500 | £276,970 | 80 |
| 2003 | £129,000 | £237,649 | 102 |
| 2002 | £99,200 | £186,644 | 94 |
| 2001 | £83,000 | £159,563 | 117 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 111 |
| 1999 | £70,200 | £139,905 | 118 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 103 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 117 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 109 |
| 1995 | £60,600 | £131,735 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical DH3 4 home went from £60,600 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 56%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH3 4 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.0%). 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) | −18.0% | −19.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH3 4
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 register shows 28 DH3 4 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 87 sales a year recently, against 99 a year before 2008. 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 4 trades
This is a thin market: 28 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. Against the DH3 district median, DH3 4 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around DH3 4
For renting purposes DH3 4 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). 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 £205,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
DH3 4 (Great Lumley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DH3 4 (Great Lumley)?
Is DH3 4 (Great Lumley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH3 4 (Great Lumley)?
Are DH3 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% 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
The live side of the market holds 32 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH3 district, not just DH3 4: 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
"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 →
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
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.
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.
Other sectors in DH3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DH3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH3 1 | £167,500 | 43 |
| DH3 2 | £193,000 | 25 |
| DH3 3 | £122,500 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full DH3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DH3 4? 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 DH3 4'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 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH3 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH3 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH3 4 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.