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Penshaw market report DH4 6, Houghton Le Spring
The standing DH4 6 (Penshaw) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,115 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH4 6 (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: 72 registered 2026 sales put the DH4 6 (Houghton Le Spring) median at £164,100, down 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £174,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,990 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,115 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
DH4 6 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 6 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 buyers actually paid in DH4 6
72 sales were registered in DH4 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £164,100. The mean works out at £174,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DH4 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put DH4 6 at roughly £1,990 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH4 6 42% below the country at large.
A typical DH4 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £164,100 | £164,100 | 72 |
| 2025 | £188,500 | £193,008 | 170 |
| 2024 | £192,000 | £204,135 | 161 |
| 2023 | £204,000 | £224,146 | 171 |
| 2022 | £192,000 | £225,142 | 289 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 302 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 181 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 175 |
| 2018 | £173,500 | £231,279 | 228 |
| 2017 | £170,000 | £231,863 | 242 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 181 |
| 2015 | £174,500 | £246,569 | 164 |
| 2014 | £167,100 | £237,061 | 144 |
| 2013 | £144,000 | £207,202 | 133 |
| 2012 | £137,900 | £202,972 | 94 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 117 |
| 2010 | £107,500 | £168,588 | 93 |
| 2009 | £123,500 | £198,527 | 96 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 115 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 193 |
| 2006 | £103,000 | £178,795 | 119 |
| 2005 | £85,000 | £151,266 | 130 |
| 2004 | £77,500 | £140,755 | 153 |
| 2003 | £66,500 | £122,509 | 174 |
| 2002 | £62,400 | £117,405 | 198 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 232 |
| 2000 | £78,500 | £154,056 | 209 |
| 1999 | £35,300 | £70,351 | 109 |
| 1998 | £51,700 | £104,360 | 172 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 112 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 102 |
| 1995 | £32,500 | £70,650 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical DH4 6 home went from £32,500 in 1995 to £164,100 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 132%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 35% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH4 6 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 2000 (+122.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−31.7%). 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) | −12.9% | −15.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.9% | −4.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in DH4 6
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 72 sales completed in DH4 6. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 173 sales a year recently, against 176 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around DH4 6
The local authority for DH4 6 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £164,100 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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.
How DH4 6 trades
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. Within DH4, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The questions people bring to DH4 6 (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 £164,100 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.
Common questions on DH4 6 (Penshaw)
Is DH4 6 (Penshaw) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH4 6 (Penshaw)?
Are property prices falling in DH4 6 (Penshaw)?
What happens to DH4 6 prices now?
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.
What is for sale in DH4 right now
The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH4 district, not just DH4 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% 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.
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- Collier Gardens, Houghton Le Spring
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DH area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 4 | £162,500 | 35 |
| DH4 5 | £145,000 | 29 |
| 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 6? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH4 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH4 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH4 6 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 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DH4 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual DH4 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.