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Great Lumley market report DH3, Chester Le Street
The DH3 (Great Lumley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 13,633 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH3 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for DH3 (Chester Le Street) is £170,000, from 140 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £186,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,010 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 13,633 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
DH3 is a postcode district covering Great Lumley, Birtley (east of East Coast Main Line) in Chester Le Street. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where DH3 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 sells for
The 2026 median for DH3 is £170,000, taken from 140 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £186,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in DH3
A square metre of DH3 home has cost about £2,010 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DH3 40% below the national figure.
The price of a typical DH3 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 140 |
| 2025 | £196,700 | £201,404 | 474 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 438 |
| 2023 | £166,000 | £182,393 | 363 |
| 2022 | £173,500 | £203,449 | 429 |
| 2021 | £174,000 | £220,306 | 531 |
| 2020 | £179,500 | £232,905 | 454 |
| 2019 | £164,200 | £215,227 | 468 |
| 2018 | £156,000 | £207,951 | 403 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 352 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 353 |
| 2015 | £147,000 | £207,711 | 357 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 333 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 315 |
| 2012 | £132,000 | £194,288 | 359 |
| 2011 | £121,000 | £182,663 | 253 |
| 2010 | £132,000 | £207,010 | 267 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 240 |
| 2008 | £126,000 | £206,541 | 309 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 676 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 612 |
| 2005 | £125,500 | £223,339 | 470 |
| 2004 | £115,000 | £208,862 | 553 |
| 2003 | £83,200 | £153,275 | 674 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 561 |
| 2001 | £53,500 | £102,851 | 537 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 467 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 445 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 442 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 452 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 482 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 424 |
In cash terms the typical DH3 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 62%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH3 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 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.6%). 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 £305,000 against £90,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, DH3
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 | £305,000 | 29 | 3,091 |
| Semi-detached | £186,000 | 44 | 4,388 |
| Terraced | £132,500 | 51 | 4,869 |
| Flats | £90,000 | 16 | 1,285 |
What DH3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.6% | −15.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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 DH3
The year-by-year sales count
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 326 DH3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 569 sales a year before the financial crisis and 369 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 trades
Among the 9 measurable districts of its area, DH3 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of DH3
For renting purposes DH3 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £170,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Common questions on DH3 (Great Lumley)
Is DH3 (Great Lumley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH3 (Great Lumley)?
Are property prices falling in DH3 (Great Lumley)?
Are DH3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
What is for sale in DH3 right now
Everything above is what homes in DH3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 29% below the DH3 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
DH3 ranks 7 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside DH3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DH3 1 | £167,500 | 43 |
| DH3 2 | £193,000 | 25 |
| DH3 3 | £122,500 | 44 |
| DH3 4 | £205,000 | 28 |
How DH3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 | £235,000 | +9% |
| DH3 (this report) | £170,000 | -2% |
| DH2 | £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% |
Selling a home in DH3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH3'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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH3 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.
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.