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Sunderland market report SR
The SR (Sunderland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 107,805 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the SR postcode area (Sunderland) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical the SR postcode area (Sunderland) home changed hands for £140,000 in 2026 (median of 1,046 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £166,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,740 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 107,805 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The SR postcode area centred on Sunderland covers 8 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where SR 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 SR sells for
The SR median stands at £140,000 for 2026, built from 1,046 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £166,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in SR
By floor space, homes in SR have sold for about £1,740 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SR 51% below the national figure.
SR's median sold price, 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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 1,046 |
| 2025 | £142,000 | £145,396 | 2,941 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 3,009 |
| 2023 | £137,000 | £150,530 | 2,893 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 3,642 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 3,945 |
| 2020 | £122,000 | £158,298 | 2,797 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 3,086 |
| 2018 | £113,000 | £150,631 | 2,997 |
| 2017 | £110,000 | £150,029 | 3,058 |
| 2016 | £110,000 | £153,891 | 2,883 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 2,840 |
| 2014 | £102,000 | £144,705 | 2,706 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 2,346 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 2,169 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 2,135 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 2,057 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 1,966 |
| 2008 | £101,500 | £166,380 | 2,782 |
| 2007 | £109,400 | £185,573 | 5,704 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 5,718 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 4,946 |
| 2004 | £86,000 | £156,193 | 5,593 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 5,208 |
| 2002 | £49,800 | £93,698 | 4,788 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 4,315 |
| 2000 | £41,000 | £80,463 | 3,846 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 3,742 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 3,561 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 3,216 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 3,060 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 2,810 |
In cash terms the typical SR home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 76%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SR 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 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.2%). 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) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £280,000 against £72,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SR
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 | £280,000 | 132 | 14,578 |
| Semi-detached | £157,500 | 432 | 38,643 |
| Terraced | £110,000 | 412 | 45,802 |
| Flats | £72,000 | 70 | 8,782 |
How many homes change hands in SR
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SR recorded 2,269 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 5,015 sales a year before the financial crisis and 2,706 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.
The rental side of SR
The local authority for SR is Sunderland, the local authority covering most of the SR area (parts fall under County Durham, where rents differ), 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.
Set against the £140,000 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 6.0%: 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 SR (Sunderland)
Are property prices falling in SR (Sunderland)?
Is SR (Sunderland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SR (Sunderland)?
Where do SR prices go next?
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.
What you could buy in SR now
Everything above is what homes in SR sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 584 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the SR median sold price.
23% 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.
- Belton Close, Ryhope, Sunderland, Sunderland
- Newcastle Road, Sunderland
- Shakespeare Street, Southwick
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 SR 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SR area. 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 | — | £199,972 | £270,000 (+35%) | £414,995 (+54%) | £527,500 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £115,000 | £134,995 (+17%) | £184,500 (+37%) | £265,000 (+44%) | £382,500 (+44%) |
| Terraced | £87,000 | £88,000 (+1%) | £110,000 (+25%) | £160,000 (+45%) | £235,000 (+47%) |
| Flat | £69,000 | £90,000 (+30%) | £162,500 (+81%) | — | — |
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 SR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SR area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every SR district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR6 Cleadon, Fulwell (east of Metro line) | £214,800 | +2% | 142 |
| SR3 Chapelgarth, Doxford Park | £175,000 | -1% | 150 |
| SR2 Ashbrooke, Ryhope | £145,000 | -3% | 141 |
| SR4 Ayres Quay, Barnes | £138,000 | +19% | 173 |
| SR5 Carley Hill, Castletown | £130,000 | +24% | 96 |
| SR7 Cold Hesledon, Dalton-le-Dale | £126,000 | +1% | 162 |
| SR8 Easington, Easington Colliery | £93,000 | +13% | 169 |
| SR1 Sunderland City Centre, East End | £50,000 | -22% | 13 |
Selling a home in SR? 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 SR, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SR's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SR sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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See every individual SR 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.
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.