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Usworth market report NE37 3, Washington
The standing NE37 3 (Usworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,291 registered sales in NE37 3 (Washington) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in NE37 3 (Washington) sold for £35,000 in 2026, the median of 21 registered sales, down 65% on five years earlier. The mean was £63,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £990 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,291 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NE37 3 is one sector of NE37 (Washington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NE37 3 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 NE37 3
The 2026 median for NE37 3 is £35,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £63,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in NE37 3
Per square metre, NE37 3 homes have averaged around £990 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NE37 3 88% below the country at large.
The price of a typical NE37 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £35,000 | £35,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £95,000 | £97,272 | 43 |
| 2024 | £35,000 | £37,212 | 59 |
| 2023 | £34,000 | £37,358 | 42 |
| 2022 | £42,500 | £49,836 | 69 |
| 2021 | £100,000 | £126,613 | 65 |
| 2020 | £41,000 | £53,198 | 45 |
| 2019 | £45,000 | £58,984 | 51 |
| 2018 | £74,000 | £98,643 | 42 |
| 2017 | £92,500 | £126,161 | 51 |
| 2016 | £63,800 | £89,257 | 42 |
| 2015 | £40,000 | £56,520 | 59 |
| 2014 | £63,500 | £90,086 | 54 |
| 2013 | £39,000 | £56,117 | 33 |
| 2012 | £50,500 | £74,330 | 28 |
| 2011 | £122,500 | £184,928 | 29 |
| 2010 | £47,800 | £74,963 | 24 |
| 2009 | £65,500 | £105,292 | 26 |
| 2008 | £62,500 | £102,451 | 32 |
| 2007 | £56,000 | £94,992 | 110 |
| 2006 | £56,000 | £97,209 | 103 |
| 2005 | £38,000 | £67,625 | 128 |
| 2004 | £25,000 | £45,405 | 187 |
| 2003 | £25,000 | £46,056 | 172 |
| 2002 | £36,000 | £67,734 | 113 |
| 2001 | £41,000 | £78,820 | 88 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 86 |
| 1999 | £30,500 | £60,785 | 108 |
| 1998 | £33,000 | £66,613 | 85 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 102 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 93 |
| 1995 | £29,500 | £64,128 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical NE37 3 home went from £29,500 in 1995 to £35,000 in 2026, a 19% rise. In today's money the market has gone backwards by roughly 45%: a home here costs less in real terms now than it did in 1995. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2011; the current median sits about 81% below that. Someone who bought at the 2011 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE37 3 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 2025 (+171.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−63.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −63.2% | −64.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −18.9% | −22.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −5.8% | −8.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −2.3% | −5.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in NE37 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 123 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around NE37 3
The local authority for NE37 3 is Sunderland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £701 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £519 a month here against £1,073 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £35,000 median purchase price, a rent of £701 a month (£8,412 a year) works out at a 24.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the NE37 3 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. Against the NE37 district median, NE37 3 sits 71% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: NE37 3 (Usworth)
Is NE37 3 (Usworth) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE37 3 (Usworth)?
Are property prices falling in NE37 3 (Usworth)?
Where do NE37 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 65% over five years in cash but down 72% 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 you could buy in NE37 now
The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE37 district, not just NE37 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 NE37 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.
What another bedroom costs in NE
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £239,250 | £322,500 (+35%) | £498,100 (+54%) | £700,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £157,000 | £168,000 (+7%) | £216,000 (+29%) | £335,000 (+55%) | £521,000 (+56%) |
| Terraced | £127,500 | £136,000 (+7%) | £170,000 (+25%) | £282,250 (+66%) | £393,500 (+39%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £127,980 (+35%) | £190,000 (+48%) | £340,000 (+79%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NE area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NE37
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NE37, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE37 1 | £165,000 | 39 |
| NE37 2 | £102,500 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full NE37 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE37 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NE37 3? 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 NE37 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE37 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE37 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working NE37 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NE37 3.
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Two maps carry on from here: every NE37 3 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.
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.