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Hetton-le-Hole market report DH5 0, Houghton Le Spring
The standing DH5 0 (Hetton-le-Hole) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,731 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH5 0 (Houghton Le Spring) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in DH5 0 (Houghton Le Spring) sold for £85,000 in 2026, the median of 23 registered sales, down 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £112,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,370 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,731 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH5 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DH5 (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 DH5 0 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 DH5 0 homes really sell for
Across 23 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) DH5 0 home went for £85,000. The mean is £112,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
DH5 0 prices by floor area
A square metre of DH5 0 home has cost about £1,370 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so DH5 0 trades 70% below the country as a whole.
A typical DH5 0 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £85,000 | £85,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £112,000 | £114,678 | 90 |
| 2024 | £112,500 | £119,611 | 89 |
| 2023 | £89,000 | £97,789 | 68 |
| 2022 | £130,000 | £152,440 | 99 |
| 2021 | £119,500 | £151,302 | 92 |
| 2020 | £105,000 | £136,240 | 64 |
| 2019 | £117,500 | £154,014 | 80 |
| 2018 | £132,000 | £175,958 | 113 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 126 |
| 2016 | £133,000 | £186,068 | 135 |
| 2015 | £134,800 | £190,472 | 89 |
| 2014 | £112,500 | £159,601 | 72 |
| 2013 | £105,600 | £151,948 | 102 |
| 2012 | £113,300 | £166,763 | 74 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 78 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 81 |
| 2009 | £82,500 | £132,619 | 50 |
| 2008 | £90,000 | £147,529 | 53 |
| 2007 | £94,000 | £159,450 | 157 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 107 |
| 2005 | £96,500 | £171,731 | 108 |
| 2004 | £78,000 | £141,663 | 141 |
| 2003 | £46,500 | £85,664 | 109 |
| 2002 | £39,000 | £73,378 | 96 |
| 2001 | £29,500 | £56,712 | 69 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 74 |
| 1999 | £27,800 | £55,404 | 64 |
| 1998 | £32,200 | £64,998 | 54 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 49 |
| 1996 | £25,000 | £52,724 | 65 |
| 1995 | £28,000 | £60,868 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical DH5 0 home went from £28,000 in 1995 to £85,000 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 40%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 55% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH5 0 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 (+67.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−31.5%). 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) | −24.1% | −25.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −4.4% | −7.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −0.3% | −3.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in DH5 0
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.
DH5 0 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
Rents around DH5 0
The local authority for DH5 0 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 £85,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 9.9%. 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.
Reading the DH5 0 market
This is a thin market: 23 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 DH5, this sector trades 43% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
DH5 0 (Hetton-le-Hole): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DH5 0 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Are property prices falling in DH5 0 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Is DH5 0 (Hetton-le-Hole) a good place to buy a house?
Will DH5 0 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% 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 you could buy in DH5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 8 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH5 district, not just DH5 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Churchside Gardens, Houghton Le Spring, County Durham, DH5, Sunderland
- Market Street, Houghton Le Spring, DH5, 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 DH5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: DH prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DH area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the DH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in DH5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DH5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH5 8 | £160,000 | 35 |
| DH5 9 | £152,500 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full DH5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in DH5 0? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH5 0's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DH5 0.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to DH5 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual DH5 0 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.