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Cold Hesledon market report SR7 7, Seaham
The SR7 7 (Cold Hesledon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,809 HM Land Registry entries for SR7 7 (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 2026 median for SR7 7 (Seaham) is £150,000, from 55 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £160,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,809 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SR7 7 is one sector of SR7 (Seaham): 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 SR7 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.
What buyers actually paid in SR7 7
Across 55 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SR7 7 home went for £150,000. The mean is £160,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SR7 7
By floor space, homes in SR7 7 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SR7 7 47% below the country at large.
SR7 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £157,500 | £161,266 | 119 |
| 2024 | £130,000 | £138,217 | 152 |
| 2023 | £123,000 | £135,147 | 119 |
| 2022 | £124,000 | £145,404 | 162 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 195 |
| 2020 | £150,000 | £194,628 | 145 |
| 2019 | £132,500 | £173,676 | 167 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 161 |
| 2017 | £112,000 | £152,757 | 161 |
| 2016 | £133,200 | £186,348 | 136 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 138 |
| 2014 | £113,000 | £160,310 | 155 |
| 2013 | £123,800 | £178,136 | 167 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 163 |
| 2011 | £107,000 | £161,529 | 122 |
| 2010 | £121,400 | £190,386 | 131 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 91 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 199 |
| 2007 | £135,500 | £229,846 | 426 |
| 2006 | £126,000 | £218,720 | 468 |
| 2005 | £120,500 | £214,441 | 440 |
| 2004 | £91,400 | £166,000 | 425 |
| 2003 | £49,500 | £91,191 | 238 |
| 2002 | £25,000 | £47,037 | 209 |
| 2001 | £29,500 | £56,712 | 137 |
| 2000 | £27,000 | £52,988 | 124 |
| 1999 | £28,000 | £55,803 | 114 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 139 |
| 1997 | £27,200 | £55,782 | 91 |
| 1996 | £25,000 | £52,724 | 139 |
| 1995 | £22,000 | £47,825 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical SR7 7 home went from £22,000 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 35% 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 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 2003 (+98.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.8%). 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) | −4.8% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
SR7 7 recorded 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 308 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 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.
The shape of the SR7 7 market
This is a thin market: 55 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 SR7 district median, SR7 7 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around SR7 7
SR7 7 falls under County Durham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £638 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £150,000 median purchase price, a rent of £638 a month (£7,656 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
What people ask about SR7 7 (Cold Hesledon)
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Where do SR7 7 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SR7's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SR7 district, not just SR7 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% 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.
- Leechmere Crescent, Seaton Lane, Seaham
- Hawkins Road, Murton, SR7, Murton
- Watling Avenue, Seaham, Durham, SR7
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in SR
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SR area, 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%) | — | — |
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 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.
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 0 | £133,500 | 38 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in SR7 7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SR7 7'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.
Estate agents working SR7 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SR7 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SR7 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SR7 7 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.
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.