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Cold Hesledon market report SR7, Seaham
The SR7 (Cold Hesledon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 14,308 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SR7 (Seaham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SR7 (Seaham) came in at £126,000, out of 162 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £144,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,660 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 14,308 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SR7 is a postcode district covering Cold Hesledon, Dalton-le-Dale, Dawdon in Seaham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SR7 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 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for SR7 is £126,000, taken from 162 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £144,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SR7
By floor space, homes in SR7 have sold for about £1,660 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SR7 56% below the national figure.
SR7's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £126,000 | £126,000 | 162 |
| 2025 | £124,000 | £126,965 | 393 |
| 2024 | £135,000 | £143,533 | 414 |
| 2023 | £114,500 | £125,808 | 328 |
| 2022 | £115,700 | £135,671 | 430 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 566 |
| 2020 | £123,200 | £159,855 | 372 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 409 |
| 2018 | £101,000 | £134,635 | 421 |
| 2017 | £94,000 | £128,207 | 436 |
| 2016 | £98,000 | £137,103 | 345 |
| 2015 | £93,000 | £131,409 | 362 |
| 2014 | £85,000 | £120,587 | 343 |
| 2013 | £107,100 | £154,106 | 341 |
| 2012 | £95,500 | £140,564 | 362 |
| 2011 | £93,800 | £141,602 | 328 |
| 2010 | £101,200 | £158,708 | 306 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 285 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 417 |
| 2007 | £116,500 | £197,616 | 910 |
| 2006 | £113,000 | £196,154 | 907 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 747 |
| 2004 | £82,400 | £149,654 | 815 |
| 2003 | £55,000 | £101,323 | 645 |
| 2002 | £34,500 | £64,911 | 536 |
| 2001 | £34,800 | £66,901 | 421 |
| 2000 | £33,000 | £64,763 | 413 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 383 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 463 |
| 1997 | £32,500 | £66,651 | 315 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 370 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 363 |
In cash terms the typical SR7 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £126,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 93%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. 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 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 (+59.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−20.6%). 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) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £244,000 against £82,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SR7
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 | £244,000 | 16 | 2,830 |
| Semi-detached | £150,000 | 58 | 4,429 |
| Terraced | £103,500 | 80 | 6,584 |
| Flats | £82,000 | 8 | 451 |
How many homes change hands in SR7
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 328 SR7 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 674 sales a year before the financial crisis and 345 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.
What homes rent for around SR7
For renting purposes SR7 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 £126,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. 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.
Asked and answered: SR7 (Cold Hesledon)
How much did a house sell for in SR7 (Cold Hesledon)?
Are property prices falling in SR7 (Cold Hesledon)?
Is SR7 (Cold Hesledon) a good place to buy a house?
Will SR7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
SR7's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SR7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% above the SR7 median sold price.
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
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
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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SR7 ranks 5 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.
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.
Inside SR7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR7 0 | £133,500 | 38 |
| SR7 7 | £150,000 | 55 |
| SR7 8 | £120,000 | 33 |
| SR7 9 | £103,500 | 36 |
How SR7 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 (this report) | £126,000 | +1% |
| SR8 | £93,000 | +13% |
| SR1 | £50,000 | -22% |
Selling a home in SR7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SR7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SR7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SR7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SR7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SR7.
Dig further
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See every individual SR7 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.
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.