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Penshaw market report DH4 7, Houghton Le Spring
The DH4 7 (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: 4,425 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH4 7 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DH4 7 (Houghton Le Spring) came in at £129,200, out of 32 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £184,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,820 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,425 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like DH4 7 is a single group of streets within DH4 (Houghton Le Spring), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DH4 7 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 DH4 7 sells for
Take the 32 registered 2026 sales in DH4 7 and the middle price, the median, is £129,200. The mean lands at £184,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in DH4 7
Per square metre, DH4 7 homes have averaged around £1,820 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH4 7 55% below the country at large.
DH4 7's median sold price, 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 | £129,200 | £129,200 | 32 |
| 2025 | £160,000 | £163,826 | 148 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 142 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 101 |
| 2022 | £129,500 | £151,854 | 108 |
| 2021 | £142,000 | £179,790 | 141 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 123 |
| 2019 | £141,200 | £185,079 | 130 |
| 2018 | £129,000 | £171,959 | 113 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 108 |
| 2016 | £131,000 | £183,270 | 91 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 113 |
| 2014 | £143,800 | £204,005 | 121 |
| 2013 | £123,200 | £177,273 | 96 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 94 |
| 2011 | £146,800 | £221,612 | 102 |
| 2010 | £166,400 | £260,958 | 112 |
| 2009 | £154,000 | £247,556 | 92 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 105 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 198 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 203 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 175 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 228 |
| 2003 | £122,000 | £224,754 | 268 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 271 |
| 2001 | £80,500 | £154,757 | 187 |
| 2000 | £63,800 | £125,208 | 170 |
| 1999 | £56,800 | £113,199 | 152 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 159 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 103 |
| 1996 | £35,500 | £74,868 | 108 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 131 |
In cash terms the typical DH4 7 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £129,200 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 65%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2004. The market now sits about 54% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DH4 7 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 2024 (+39.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−27.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.3% | −21.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.1% | −3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.2% | −2.6% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 7 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 213 sales a year before the financial crisis and 106 a year over the last five. 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 homes rent for around DH4 7
For renting purposes DH4 7 sits in Sunderland. The ONS average private rent there is £701 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £519 a month here against £1,073 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £129,200 median purchase price, a rent of £701 a month (£8,412 a year) works out at a 6.5% 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.
How DH4 7 trades
This is a thin market: 32 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. Within DH4, this sector trades 15% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people search before landing on DH4 7 (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 £129,200 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 7 (Penshaw)
How much did a house sell for in DH4 7 (Penshaw)?
Are property prices falling in DH4 7 (Penshaw)?
Is DH4 7 (Penshaw) a good place to buy a house?
Will DH4 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in DH
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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 5 | £145,000 | 29 |
| DH4 6 | £164,100 | 72 |
Zoom out to the full DH4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DH4 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH4 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH4 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH4 7 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 7.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DH4 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DH4 7 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.