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Cold Hesledon market report SR7 9, Seaham
The standing SR7 9 (Cold Hesledon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,957 registered sales in SR7 9 (Seaham) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SR7 9 (Seaham) came in at £103,500, out of 36 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £119,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,330 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,957 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SR7 9 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 9 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 SR7 9 homes really sell for
In the SR7 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £103,500, from 36 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £119,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
SR7 9 prices by floor area
A square metre of SR7 9 home has cost about £1,330 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SR7 9 runs 64% below it.
A typical SR7 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £103,500 | £103,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £97,500 | £99,832 | 89 |
| 2024 | £97,200 | £103,344 | 82 |
| 2023 | £95,000 | £104,382 | 79 |
| 2022 | £96,000 | £112,571 | 103 |
| 2021 | £85,000 | £107,621 | 121 |
| 2020 | £78,500 | £101,855 | 68 |
| 2019 | £85,000 | £111,415 | 77 |
| 2018 | £85,000 | £113,307 | 101 |
| 2017 | £80,000 | £109,112 | 105 |
| 2016 | £71,500 | £100,029 | 78 |
| 2015 | £78,000 | £110,214 | 67 |
| 2014 | £59,800 | £84,837 | 76 |
| 2013 | £73,800 | £106,191 | 62 |
| 2012 | £81,200 | £119,516 | 90 |
| 2011 | £92,500 | £139,639 | 94 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 97 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 97 |
| 2008 | £108,000 | £177,035 | 101 |
| 2007 | £108,500 | £184,046 | 180 |
| 2006 | £97,500 | £169,248 | 180 |
| 2005 | £69,000 | £122,792 | 122 |
| 2004 | £55,000 | £99,891 | 125 |
| 2003 | £39,000 | £71,847 | 139 |
| 2002 | £30,000 | £56,445 | 108 |
| 2001 | £28,000 | £53,829 | 89 |
| 2000 | £27,700 | £54,361 | 66 |
| 1999 | £27,500 | £54,806 | 80 |
| 1998 | £27,000 | £54,501 | 50 |
| 1997 | £26,500 | £54,346 | 61 |
| 1996 | £26,000 | £54,833 | 63 |
| 1995 | £24,000 | £52,172 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical SR7 9 home went from £24,000 in 1995 to £103,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 98%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 44% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SR7 9 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 2006 (+41.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−19.0%). 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) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.3% | −2.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SR7 9
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 36 SR7 9 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 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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 rental side of SR7 9
For renting purposes SR7 9 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 £103,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.4%. 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.
How SR7 9 trades
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SR7 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SR7, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on SR7 9 (Cold Hesledon)
How much did a house sell for in SR7 9 (Cold Hesledon)?
Are property prices falling in SR7 9 (Cold Hesledon)?
Is SR7 9 (Cold Hesledon) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SR7 9 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 9: 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SR
Real sold prices by size across the SR area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SR area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SR7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SR7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR7 0 | £133,500 | 38 |
| SR7 7 | £150,000 | 55 |
| SR7 8 | £120,000 | 33 |
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 9: 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 9'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 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SR7 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SR7 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SR7 9 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.