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Penshaw market report DH4 4, Houghton Le Spring
The DH4 4 (Penshaw) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,353 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH4 4 (Houghton Le Spring) 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.
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 DH4 4 (Houghton Le Spring) came in at £162,500, out of 35 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £174,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,353 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DH4 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DH4 (Houghton Le Spring). 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 DH4 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 DH4 4 homes really sell for
Across 35 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH4 4 home went for £162,500. The mean is £174,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in DH4 4
By floor space, homes in DH4 4 have sold for about £1,880 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH4 4 runs 43% below it.
The price of a typical DH4 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £162,500 | £162,500 | 35 |
| 2025 | £181,000 | £185,328 | 155 |
| 2024 | £166,000 | £176,492 | 138 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £192,282 | 118 |
| 2022 | £178,000 | £208,725 | 126 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 164 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 113 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 134 |
| 2018 | £154,100 | £205,418 | 126 |
| 2017 | £144,000 | £196,402 | 148 |
| 2016 | £122,000 | £170,679 | 106 |
| 2015 | £138,000 | £194,994 | 82 |
| 2014 | £116,800 | £165,701 | 116 |
| 2013 | £116,800 | £168,064 | 86 |
| 2012 | £118,000 | £173,681 | 63 |
| 2011 | £123,000 | £185,683 | 78 |
| 2010 | £129,000 | £202,305 | 48 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 48 |
| 2008 | £104,500 | £171,298 | 66 |
| 2007 | £138,200 | £234,426 | 181 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 157 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 131 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 191 |
| 2003 | £69,500 | £128,036 | 190 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 177 |
| 2001 | £74,700 | £143,607 | 198 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 255 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 308 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 143 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 155 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 175 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical DH4 4 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £162,500 in 2026, roughly 2.4 times the price. Deflate those figures and little remains: roughly 9% in real terms, which says the pounds changed more than the homes did. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH4 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 2004 (+66.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−24.4%). 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) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.2% |
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 DH4 4
How many homes change hands
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, 35 sales completed in DH4 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 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 kind of market DH4 4 is
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH4 4 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 DH4 4
The local authority for DH4 4 is Sunderland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £701 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £519 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,073, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£701 a month is £8,412 a year, which against the £162,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
What people search before landing on DH4 4 (Penshaw)
These are the recorded searches for the wider DH4 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
Searches like rental valuation houghton-le-spring
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £162,500 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Common questions on DH4 4 (Penshaw)
Are property prices falling in DH4 4 (Penshaw)?
Is DH4 4 (Penshaw) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH4 4 (Penshaw)?
Will DH4 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
What is for sale in DH4 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 60 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH4 district, not just DH4 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Collier Gardens, Houghton Le Spring
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every DH4 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
DH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DH4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DH4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH4 5 | £145,000 | 29 |
| DH4 6 | £164,100 | 72 |
| DH4 7 | £129,200 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full DH4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DH4 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH4 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH4 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH4 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DH4 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH4 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH4 4 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.
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.