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Sunderland City Centre market report SR1, Sunderland
The SR1 (Sunderland City Centre) 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: 1,641 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SR1 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SR1 (Sunderland) sold for £50,000 in 2026, the median of 13 registered sales, down 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £64,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,130 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,641 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SR1 is the postcode district covering Sunderland City Centre, East End, Hendon (north of Egerton Street) in Sunderland. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SR1 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 SR1 sells for
In the SR1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £50,000, from 13 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £64,200, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in SR1
The last five years of sales put SR1 at roughly £1,130 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SR1 trades 82% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SR1 home, 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 | £50,000 | £50,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £53,500 | £54,779 | 28 |
| 2024 | £63,800 | £67,833 | 34 |
| 2023 | £61,500 | £67,573 | 28 |
| 2022 | £69,500 | £81,497 | 34 |
| 2021 | £64,000 | £81,032 | 49 |
| 2020 | £56,500 | £73,310 | 110 |
| 2019 | £82,000 | £107,482 | 45 |
| 2018 | £55,000 | £73,316 | 39 |
| 2017 | £50,000 | £68,195 | 81 |
| 2016 | £54,000 | £75,547 | 43 |
| 2015 | £57,800 | £81,671 | 30 |
| 2014 | £66,000 | £93,633 | 46 |
| 2013 | £56,800 | £81,730 | 26 |
| 2012 | £64,000 | £94,200 | 17 |
| 2011 | £72,200 | £108,994 | 17 |
| 2010 | £113,000 | £177,213 | 18 |
| 2009 | £176,000 | £282,922 | 69 |
| 2008 | £154,000 | £252,439 | 86 |
| 2007 | £158,400 | £268,691 | 207 |
| 2006 | £120,500 | £209,173 | 72 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 153 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 55 |
| 2003 | £50,100 | £92,296 | 52 |
| 2002 | £43,200 | £81,280 | 68 |
| 2001 | £41,800 | £80,358 | 44 |
| 2000 | £30,000 | £58,875 | 35 |
| 1999 | £35,000 | £69,753 | 31 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 33 |
| 1997 | £32,000 | £65,626 | 25 |
| 1996 | £26,900 | £56,731 | 32 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 21 |
In cash terms the typical SR1 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £50,000 in 2026, a 30% rise. Strip out inflation and it is actually a fall of about 40%: a typical home here costs less in real terms than it did in 1995. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 82% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SR1 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 2005 (+113.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−36.1%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 58% of the typed total. In 2005, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £270,000 against £170,000 for a flat, a 59% premium.
Median by property type, SR1
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 | £270,000 (2005) | – | 5 |
| Semi-detached | £145,000 (2005) | – | 22 |
| Terraced | £75,000 (2025) | – | 627 |
| Flats | £46,400 | 11 | 908 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.5% | −8.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.8% | −9.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.8% | −4.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | −4.3% | −6.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SR1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 27 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.
The shape of the SR1 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. By median price SR1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
What tenants pay around SR1
The local authority for SR1 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 £50,000 median purchase price, a rent of £701 a month (£8,412 a year) works out at a 16.8% 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.
Asked and answered: SR1 (Sunderland City Centre)
Is SR1 (Sunderland City Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SR1 (Sunderland City Centre)?
Are property prices falling in SR1 (Sunderland City Centre)?
What happens to SR1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SR1 right now
Everything above is what homes in SR1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 24 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 199% above the SR1 median sold price.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hartington Street, Roker
- River View, Low Street, Sunderland, T...
- Crozier Street, Off Newcastle Road
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 SR1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SR: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SR area. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
SR1 ranks 8 of 8 in the SR 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.
SR area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SR1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR1 1 | £58,200 | 6 |
| SR1 2 | £46,200 | 4 |
| SR1 3 | £60,000 | 3 |
How SR1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SR6 | £214,800 | +2% |
| SR3 | £175,000 | -1% |
| SR2 | £145,000 | -3% |
| SR4 | £138,000 | +19% |
| SR5 | £130,000 | +24% |
| SR7 | £126,000 | +1% |
| SR8 | £93,000 | +13% |
| SR1 (this report) | £50,000 | -22% |
Thinking of selling in SR1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SR1, open the average prices map and zoom from the SR1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SR1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SR1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SR1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SR1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SR1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.