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Hetton-le-Hole market report DH5 8, Houghton Le Spring
The standing DH5 8 (Hetton-le-Hole) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,782 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DH5 8 (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 8 (Houghton Le Spring) sold for £160,000 in 2026, the median of 35 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier. The mean was £165,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,680 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,782 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH5 8 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 8 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 DH5 8 sells for
The 2026 median for DH5 8 is £160,000, taken from 35 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £165,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
DH5 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of DH5 8 home has cost about £1,680 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH5 8 44% below the country at large.
A typical DH5 8 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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 85 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 85 |
| 2023 | £133,300 | £146,464 | 81 |
| 2022 | £120,000 | £140,714 | 79 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 95 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 76 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 88 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 57 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 81 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 104 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 82 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 48 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 55 |
| 2012 | £119,000 | £175,153 | 68 |
| 2011 | £109,000 | £164,548 | 87 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 64 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 32 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 53 |
| 2007 | £123,000 | £208,642 | 113 |
| 2006 | £98,000 | £170,115 | 101 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 82 |
| 2004 | £76,500 | £138,939 | 128 |
| 2003 | £72,000 | £132,641 | 157 |
| 2002 | £56,000 | £105,364 | 131 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 126 |
| 2000 | £59,000 | £115,788 | 123 |
| 1999 | £44,500 | £88,686 | 66 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 90 |
| 1997 | £46,200 | £94,747 | 84 |
| 1996 | £41,800 | £88,154 | 111 |
| 1995 | £39,700 | £86,302 | 115 |
In cash terms the typical DH5 8 home went from £39,700 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 85%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 47% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH5 8 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 2015 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−38.7%). 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) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in DH5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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 8
For renting purposes DH5 8 sits in Sunderland. The ONS average private rent there is £701 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
The shape of the DH5 8 market
This is a thin market: 35 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.
Asked and answered: DH5 8 (Hetton-le-Hole)
Are property prices falling in DH5 8 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Is DH5 8 (Hetton-le-Hole) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH5 8 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Are DH5 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in DH5 right now
The live side of the market holds 8 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DH5 district, not just DH5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 0 | £85,000 | 23 |
| 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 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DH5 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DH5 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DH5 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working DH5 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim DH5 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DH5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual DH5 8 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.