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Cold Hesledon market report SR7 8, Seaham
The SR7 8 (Cold Hesledon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,806 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SR7 8 (Seaham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SR7 8 (Seaham) sold for £120,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £134,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,806 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SR7 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SR7 (Seaham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SR7 8 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.
SR7 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 33 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SR7 8 home went for £120,000. The mean is £134,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SR7 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SR7 8 sales average about £1,800 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SR7 8 58% below the national figure.
SR7 8'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 | £120,000 | £120,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £124,000 | £126,965 | 109 |
| 2024 | £170,000 | £180,745 | 110 |
| 2023 | £102,500 | £112,622 | 63 |
| 2022 | £115,000 | £134,851 | 78 |
| 2021 | £147,500 | £186,754 | 145 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 92 |
| 2019 | £91,500 | £119,935 | 83 |
| 2018 | £85,000 | £113,307 | 71 |
| 2017 | £75,000 | £102,292 | 77 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 69 |
| 2015 | £82,000 | £115,866 | 81 |
| 2014 | £75,000 | £106,401 | 52 |
| 2013 | £76,000 | £109,356 | 57 |
| 2012 | £70,500 | £103,767 | 53 |
| 2011 | £82,000 | £123,788 | 61 |
| 2010 | £72,500 | £113,699 | 40 |
| 2009 | £89,000 | £143,068 | 49 |
| 2008 | £90,500 | £148,349 | 62 |
| 2007 | £97,500 | £165,387 | 169 |
| 2006 | £92,000 | £159,700 | 124 |
| 2005 | £87,200 | £155,181 | 100 |
| 2004 | £76,500 | £138,939 | 141 |
| 2003 | £51,000 | £93,954 | 125 |
| 2002 | £38,500 | £72,437 | 117 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 105 |
| 2000 | £34,000 | £66,725 | 98 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 79 |
| 1998 | £57,200 | £115,462 | 142 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 80 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 73 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical SR7 8 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £120,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 67%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 36% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SR7 8 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 2024 (+65.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−44.1%). 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) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.0% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.4% |
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.
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.
SR7 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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.
How SR7 8 trades
This is a thin market: 33 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of SR7 8
For renting purposes SR7 8 sits in County Durham. The ONS average private rent there is £638 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £447 a month for a typical one-bed to £982 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, County Durham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£638 a month is £7,656 a year, which against the £120,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
SR7 8 (Cold Hesledon): the questions that come up
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Where do SR7 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in SR7 right 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
"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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. 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.
SR area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SR7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SR7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR7 0 | £133,500 | 38 |
| SR7 7 | £150,000 | 55 |
| 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.
Before you sell in SR7 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SR7 8'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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SR7 8.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every SR7 8 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.
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.