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Hetton-le-Hole market report DH5, Houghton Le Spring
The standing DH5 (Hetton-le-Hole) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 9,128 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in DH5 (Houghton Le Spring) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in DH5 (Houghton Le Spring) came in at £149,500, out of 110 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £157,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,128 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
DH5 is a postcode district covering Houghton-le-Spring (east of A690), Hetton-le-Hole, East Rainton 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 DH5 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.
The going rate for a home in DH5
Take the 110 registered 2026 sales in DH5 and the middle price, the median, is £149,500. The mean lands at £157,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
DH5 prices by floor area
A square metre of DH5 home has cost about £1,670 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 trades 48% below the country as a whole.
DH5'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 | £149,500 | £149,500 | 110 |
| 2025 | £142,000 | £145,396 | 309 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 306 |
| 2023 | £128,500 | £141,190 | 284 |
| 2022 | £151,200 | £177,299 | 417 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 409 |
| 2020 | £143,700 | £186,454 | 284 |
| 2019 | £129,000 | £169,088 | 294 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 296 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 361 |
| 2016 | £126,000 | £176,275 | 341 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 228 |
| 2014 | £108,800 | £154,352 | 184 |
| 2013 | £100,000 | £143,890 | 221 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 194 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 235 |
| 2010 | £93,000 | £145,848 | 191 |
| 2009 | £89,000 | £143,068 | 155 |
| 2008 | £92,500 | £151,627 | 188 |
| 2007 | £98,000 | £166,235 | 408 |
| 2006 | £90,500 | £157,096 | 316 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 341 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 449 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 417 |
| 2002 | £43,000 | £80,904 | 375 |
| 2001 | £37,500 | £72,092 | 331 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 292 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 214 |
| 1998 | £43,500 | £87,808 | 241 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 217 |
| 1996 | £34,100 | £71,915 | 260 |
| 1995 | £33,600 | £73,041 | 260 |
In cash terms the typical DH5 home went from £33,600 in 1995 to £149,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 105%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the DH5 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 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−17.2%). 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, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £238,000 against £53,000 for a flat, 4.5 times the price.
Median by property type, DH5
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 | £240,000 | 27 | 2,042 |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | 41 | 2,779 |
| Terraced | £89,500 | 40 | 4,125 |
| Flats | £53,000 (2025) | – | 152 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 238 sales completed in DH5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 366 sales a year before the financial crisis and 285 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around DH5
The local authority for DH5 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 £149,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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.
The shape of the DH5 market
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.
DH5 (Hetton-le-Hole): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DH5 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Is DH5 (Hetton-le-Hole) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DH5 (Hetton-le-Hole)?
Are DH5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
DH5's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in DH5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 8 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the DH5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in DH: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the DH area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
DH5 ranks 3 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.
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.
Inside DH5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DH5 0 | £85,000 | 23 |
| DH5 8 | £160,000 | 35 |
| DH5 9 | £152,500 | 52 |
How DH5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DH1 | £235,000 | +9% |
| DH3 | £170,000 | -2% |
| DH2 | £165,000 | +16% |
| DH4 | £152,500 | -5% |
| DH5 (this report) | £149,500 | +11% |
| DH7 | £140,000 | +10% |
| DH8 | £140,000 | +8% |
| DH6 | £125,000 | -5% |
| DH9 | £110,000 | +22% |
Selling in DH5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DH5'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.
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The live map plots every individual DH5 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.
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.