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Hetton-le-Hole market report DH5 9, Houghton Le Spring
The DH5 9 (Hetton-le-Hole) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,615 HM Land Registry entries for DH5 9 (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.
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 9 (Houghton Le Spring) sold for £152,500 in 2026, the median of 52 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £172,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,820 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,615 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
DH5 9 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 9 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 9 sells for
Take the 52 registered 2026 sales in DH5 9 and the middle price, the median, is £152,500. The mean lands at £172,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in DH5 9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of DH5 9 sales average about £1,820 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DH5 9 46% below the country at large.
DH5 9's median sold price, 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 | £152,500 | £152,500 | 52 |
| 2025 | £152,000 | £155,635 | 134 |
| 2024 | £163,800 | £174,153 | 132 |
| 2023 | £148,000 | £162,616 | 135 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 239 |
| 2021 | £147,000 | £186,121 | 222 |
| 2020 | £155,500 | £201,764 | 144 |
| 2019 | £154,400 | £202,381 | 126 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 126 |
| 2017 | £125,700 | £171,442 | 154 |
| 2016 | £116,900 | £163,544 | 102 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 57 |
| 2014 | £109,800 | £155,770 | 64 |
| 2013 | £87,000 | £125,184 | 64 |
| 2012 | £81,000 | £119,222 | 52 |
| 2011 | £75,000 | £113,221 | 70 |
| 2010 | £85,000 | £133,302 | 46 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 73 |
| 2008 | £84,000 | £137,694 | 82 |
| 2007 | £103,500 | £175,565 | 138 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 108 |
| 2005 | £83,000 | £147,707 | 151 |
| 2004 | £67,500 | £122,593 | 180 |
| 2003 | £57,000 | £105,008 | 151 |
| 2002 | £41,000 | £77,141 | 148 |
| 2001 | £37,800 | £72,669 | 136 |
| 2000 | £32,000 | £62,800 | 95 |
| 1999 | £41,500 | £82,707 | 84 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 97 |
| 1997 | £32,200 | £66,036 | 84 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 84 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical DH5 9 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £152,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 134%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the DH5 9 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 2003 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−22.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What DH5 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 DH5 9
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.
DH5 9 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 138 sales a year recently, against 138 a year before 2008. 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.
How DH5 9 trades
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DH5 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What tenants pay around DH5 9
For renting purposes DH5 9 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 £152,500 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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 DH5 9 (Hetton-le-Hole)
Is DH5 9 (Hetton-le-Hole) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH5 9 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Are property prices falling in DH5 9 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Will DH5 9 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.
DH5's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" 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 DH5 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
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, DH area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DH5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are DH5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH5 0 | £85,000 | 23 |
| DH5 8 | £160,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full DH5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DH5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DH5 9? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in DH5 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the DH5 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded DH5 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DH5 9.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about DH5 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every DH5 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.