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Cold Hesledon market report SR7 0, Seaham
The SR7 0 (Cold Hesledon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,736 HM Land Registry entries for SR7 0 (Seaham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SR7 0 (Seaham) sold for £133,500 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £153,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,736 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 SR7 0 is a single group of streets within SR7 (Seaham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SR7 0 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 SR7 0 prices, from the sold record
38 sales were registered in SR7 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £133,500. The mean works out at £153,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SR7 0
By floor space, homes in SR7 0 have sold for about £1,750 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SR7 0 trades 53% below the country as a whole.
A typical SR7 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £133,500 | £133,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 76 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 70 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 67 |
| 2022 | £125,000 | £146,577 | 87 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 105 |
| 2020 | £140,000 | £181,653 | 67 |
| 2019 | £124,000 | £162,534 | 82 |
| 2018 | £113,800 | £151,698 | 88 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 93 |
| 2016 | £111,000 | £155,290 | 62 |
| 2015 | £101,000 | £142,713 | 76 |
| 2014 | £103,500 | £146,833 | 60 |
| 2013 | £110,500 | £158,998 | 55 |
| 2012 | £91,500 | £134,677 | 56 |
| 2011 | £85,000 | £128,317 | 51 |
| 2010 | £100,500 | £157,610 | 38 |
| 2009 | £102,200 | £164,287 | 48 |
| 2008 | £113,000 | £185,231 | 55 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 135 |
| 2006 | £112,000 | £194,418 | 135 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 85 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 124 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 143 |
| 2002 | £53,500 | £100,660 | 102 |
| 2001 | £47,200 | £90,740 | 90 |
| 2000 | £45,500 | £89,294 | 125 |
| 1999 | £44,200 | £88,088 | 110 |
| 1998 | £46,800 | £94,469 | 132 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 83 |
| 1996 | £38,500 | £81,195 | 95 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical SR7 0 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £133,500 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 62%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SR7 0 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 2003 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.6% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in SR7 0
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.
The register shows 38 SR7 0 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
Reading the SR7 0 market
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SR7 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around SR7 0
For renting purposes SR7 0 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £447 a month here against £982 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £133,500 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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: SR7 0 (Cold Hesledon)
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What happens to SR7 0 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SR7 now
The live side of the market holds 19 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SR7 district, not just SR7 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Leechmere Crescent, Seaton Lane, Seaham
- Hawkins Road, Murton, SR7, Murton
- Watling Avenue, Seaham, Durham, SR7
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SR7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SR: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SR 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SR area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SR7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SR7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR7 7 | £150,000 | 55 |
| SR7 8 | £120,000 | 33 |
| SR7 9 | £103,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full SR7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SR7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SR7 0? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SR7 0'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 SR7 0.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SR7 0. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SR7 0 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.
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.