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Heighington market report DL5 7, Newton Aycliffe
The DL5 7 (Heighington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,981 registered sales in DL5 7 (Newton Aycliffe) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 DL5 7 (Newton Aycliffe) sold for £155,100 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £150,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,730 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,981 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like DL5 7 is a single group of streets within DL5 (Newton Aycliffe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DL5 7 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.
Today's DL5 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for DL5 7 is £155,100, taken from 33 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £150,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in DL5 7
By floor space, homes in DL5 7 have sold for about £1,730 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts DL5 7 46% below the country at large.
DL5 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £155,100 | £155,100 | 33 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 113 |
| 2024 | £147,000 | £156,291 | 128 |
| 2023 | £135,500 | £148,881 | 120 |
| 2022 | £156,500 | £183,514 | 164 |
| 2021 | £146,000 | £184,855 | 164 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 102 |
| 2019 | £111,000 | £145,494 | 79 |
| 2018 | £90,000 | £119,972 | 71 |
| 2017 | £90,000 | £122,751 | 87 |
| 2016 | £103,500 | £144,798 | 78 |
| 2015 | £88,000 | £124,344 | 65 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 85 |
| 2013 | £79,200 | £113,961 | 72 |
| 2012 | £81,800 | £120,399 | 56 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 53 |
| 2010 | £88,000 | £138,007 | 41 |
| 2009 | £107,200 | £172,325 | 58 |
| 2008 | £91,200 | £149,496 | 92 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 208 |
| 2006 | £92,500 | £160,568 | 195 |
| 2005 | £90,000 | £160,164 | 151 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 185 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 249 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 208 |
| 2001 | £55,000 | £105,735 | 234 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 137 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £107,619 | 142 |
| 1998 | £52,000 | £104,966 | 156 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 173 |
| 1996 | £51,500 | £108,611 | 156 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 126 |
In cash terms the typical DL5 7 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £155,100 in 2026, roughly 3.2 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 49%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DL5 7 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 2014 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in DL5 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 196 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 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.
How DL5 7 trades
This is a thin market: 33 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 DL5, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around DL5 7
For renting purposes DL5 7 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £155,100 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
DL5 7 (Heighington): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in DL5 7 (Heighington)?
Is DL5 7 (Heighington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DL5 7 (Heighington)?
Will DL5 7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
On the market in DL5 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 114 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DL5 district, not just DL5 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Washington Crescent, Newton Aycliffe, Newton Aycliffe
- Heatherburn Court, Woodham, Woodham
- South View, Heighington Village, Newton Aycliffe, Heighington Village
"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 DL5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in DL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the DL 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 | — | £205,000 | £282,250 (+38%) | £444,995 (+58%) | £625,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £147,250 | £147,000 (0%) | £185,000 (+26%) | £282,000 (+52%) | £380,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £104,750 | £92,999 (-11%) | £112,749 (+21%) | £180,000 (+60%) | £317,000 (+76%) |
| Flat | £85,000 | £118,000 (+39%) | £205,000 (+74%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
DL 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 DL5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of DL5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DL5 4 | £200,000 | 46 |
| DL5 5 | £115,000 | 19 |
| DL5 6 | £277,500 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full DL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DL5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in DL5 7? 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 DL5 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DL5 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DL5 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DL5 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DL5 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DL5 7 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.
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.