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Penshaw market report DH4 5, Houghton Le Spring
The DH4 5 (Penshaw) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,635 registered sales in DH4 5 (Houghton Le Spring) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in DH4 5 (Houghton Le Spring) sold for £145,000 in 2026, the median of 29 registered sales, up 38% on five years earlier. The mean was £147,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,580 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,635 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH4 5 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 5 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.
Today's DH4 5 prices, from the sold record
The DH4 5 median stands at £145,000 for 2026, built from 29 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £147,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in DH4 5
A square metre of DH4 5 home has cost about £1,580 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DH4 5 runs 49% below it.
A typical DH4 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £145,000 | £145,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £127,500 | £130,549 | 66 |
| 2024 | £123,000 | £130,774 | 75 |
| 2023 | £120,000 | £131,851 | 73 |
| 2022 | £120,000 | £140,714 | 91 |
| 2021 | £105,000 | £132,944 | 92 |
| 2020 | £117,800 | £152,848 | 74 |
| 2019 | £112,500 | £147,461 | 86 |
| 2018 | £129,000 | £171,959 | 106 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 107 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 71 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 89 |
| 2014 | £126,500 | £179,462 | 98 |
| 2013 | £89,000 | £128,062 | 73 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 53 |
| 2011 | £87,500 | £132,091 | 56 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 47 |
| 2009 | £94,000 | £151,106 | 46 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 81 |
| 2007 | £116,000 | £196,768 | 133 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 129 |
| 2005 | £108,000 | £192,196 | 95 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 125 |
| 2003 | £101,500 | £186,988 | 132 |
| 2002 | £72,000 | £135,467 | 183 |
| 2001 | £39,000 | £74,976 | 81 |
| 2000 | £39,200 | £76,930 | 62 |
| 1999 | £40,200 | £80,117 | 80 |
| 1998 | £37,500 | £75,696 | 55 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 59 |
| 1996 | £38,500 | £81,195 | 43 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical DH4 5 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £145,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 80%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH4 5 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 2002 (+84.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.3%). 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) | +13.7% | +11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.7% | +1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
DH4 5 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 118 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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.
Reading the DH4 5 market
This is a thin market: 29 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around DH4 5
The local authority for DH4 5 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 £145,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.8%. 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.
DH4 5 (Penshaw): the questions that come up
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The questions people bring to DH4 5 (Penshaw)
These are the recorded searches for the wider DH4 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
To the person who searched rental valuation houghton-le-spring
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £145,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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.
Are DH4 5 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% 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 DH4 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Collier Gardens, Houghton Le Spring
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 DH4 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.
What another bedroom costs in DH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DH4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DH4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH4 4 | £162,500 | 35 |
| 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 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH4 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH4 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH4 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working DH4 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH4 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH4 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH4 5 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.