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Penshaw market report DH4, Houghton Le Spring
The DH4 (Penshaw) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 16,582 HM Land Registry entries for DH4 (Houghton Le Spring), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical DH4 (Houghton Le Spring) home changed hands for £150,000 in 2026 (median of 194 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £169,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,890 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 16,582 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
DH4 is a postcode district covering Houghton-le-Spring (west of A690), Penshaw, Shiney Row in Houghton Le Spring. 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 DH4 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 homes really sell for
In the DH4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £150,000, from 194 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £169,700, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in DH4
A square metre of DH4 home has cost about £1,890 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 runs 47% below it.
DH4's median sold price, 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 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 194 |
| 2025 | £174,000 | £178,161 | 567 |
| 2024 | £169,800 | £180,532 | 516 |
| 2023 | £168,000 | £184,591 | 463 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 614 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 699 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 491 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 525 |
| 2018 | £153,200 | £204,218 | 573 |
| 2017 | £142,500 | £194,356 | 605 |
| 2016 | £142,000 | £198,659 | 449 |
| 2015 | £134,500 | £190,049 | 448 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 479 |
| 2013 | £116,800 | £168,064 | 388 |
| 2012 | £109,800 | £161,612 | 304 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 353 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 300 |
| 2009 | £126,400 | £203,189 | 282 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 367 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 705 |
| 2006 | £114,000 | £197,889 | 608 |
| 2005 | £103,000 | £183,298 | 531 |
| 2004 | £103,000 | £187,068 | 697 |
| 2003 | £88,800 | £163,591 | 764 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 829 |
| 2001 | £71,000 | £136,494 | 698 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 696 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 649 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 529 |
| 1997 | £41,500 | £85,108 | 429 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 428 |
| 1995 | £41,600 | £90,432 | 402 |
In cash terms the typical DH4 home went from £41,600 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 66%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH4 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 1998 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.8%). 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, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £250,000 against £72,500 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, DH4
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 | £250,000 | 55 | 5,465 |
| Semi-detached | £139,000 | 57 | 5,095 |
| Terraced | £108,500 | 74 | 5,543 |
| Flats | £72,500 | 8 | 475 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −13.8% | −15.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.3% | −5.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | 0.0% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in DH4
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 389 DH4 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 691 sales a year before the financial crisis and 471 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 homes rent for around DH4
The local authority for DH4 is Sunderland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £701 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £519 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,073 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £150,000 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about DH4 (Penshaw)
Are property prices falling in DH4 (Penshaw)?
Is DH4 (Penshaw) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH4 (Penshaw)?
Where do DH4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
DH4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DH4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 93% above the DH4 median sold price.
Set against 389 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 45 homes on the market here are roughly 6 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
DH4: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Sellers of detached homes in DH4 have company: 82% of current listings against 35% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 82% | 35% |
| Semi-detached | 12% | 33% |
| Terraced | 0% | 31% |
| Flats | 6% | 1% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (4 here).
The DH4 sales calendar
Take the 2,859 DH4 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: June completions lead with 11.1% of the total, January trails with 5.5%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 157 | 5.5% |
| February | 179 | 6.3% |
| March | 269 | 9.4% |
| April | 224 | 7.8% |
| May | 224 | 7.8% |
| June | 318 | 11.1% |
| July | 225 | 7.9% |
| August | 253 | 8.8% |
| September | 251 | 8.8% |
| October | 267 | 9.3% |
| November | 235 | 8.2% |
| December | 257 | 9.0% |
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | £165,000 | £181,000 (+10%) | £220,000 (+22%) | £284,995 (+30%) | £386,059 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £125,005 | £135,000 (+8%) | £157,000 (+16%) | £187,000 (+19%) | £264,500 (+41%) |
| Terraced | £89,000 | £93,000 (+4%) | £105,000 (+13%) | £142,000 (+35%) | £210,000 (+48%) |
| Flat | £63,000 | £86,000 (+37%) | £126,500 (+47%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DH4 ranks 9 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside DH4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How DH4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 | £236,800 | +10% |
| DH3 | £175,000 | +1% |
| DH2 | £165,000 | +16% |
| DH5 | £158,000 | +17% |
| DH4 (this report) | £150,000 | -6% |
| DH7 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £127,000 | -4% |
| DH9 | £115,000 | +28% |
Thinking of selling in DH4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.