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Easington market report SR8, Peterlee
The standing SR8 (Easington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 16,552 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SR8 (Peterlee) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SR8 (Peterlee) is £93,000, from 169 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £122,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,230 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 16,552 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SR8 is a postcode district covering Easington, Easington Colliery, Horden in Peterlee. 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 SR8 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 SR8 homes really sell for
Take the 169 registered 2026 sales in SR8 and the middle price, the median, is £93,000. The mean lands at £122,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SR8
By floor space, homes in SR8 have sold for about £1,230 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 SR8 trades 67% below the country as a whole.
A typical SR8 home, priced year by year (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 | £93,000 | £93,000 | 169 |
| 2025 | £87,500 | £89,592 | 482 |
| 2024 | £83,000 | £88,246 | 489 |
| 2023 | £80,000 | £87,900 | 501 |
| 2022 | £85,000 | £99,672 | 581 |
| 2021 | £82,200 | £104,076 | 642 |
| 2020 | £70,000 | £90,826 | 435 |
| 2019 | £74,000 | £96,996 | 497 |
| 2018 | £68,000 | £90,645 | 479 |
| 2017 | £70,000 | £95,473 | 468 |
| 2016 | £70,000 | £97,931 | 463 |
| 2015 | £73,000 | £103,149 | 425 |
| 2014 | £70,000 | £99,307 | 350 |
| 2013 | £66,500 | £95,687 | 293 |
| 2012 | £73,500 | £108,183 | 288 |
| 2011 | £70,400 | £106,277 | 254 |
| 2010 | £75,000 | £117,619 | 264 |
| 2009 | £75,000 | £120,563 | 261 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 482 |
| 2007 | £81,000 | £137,399 | 869 |
| 2006 | £78,000 | £135,398 | 869 |
| 2005 | £73,800 | £131,334 | 728 |
| 2004 | £58,700 | £106,611 | 922 |
| 2003 | £43,000 | £79,216 | 873 |
| 2002 | £37,500 | £70,556 | 709 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 642 |
| 2000 | £36,500 | £71,631 | 575 |
| 1999 | £33,200 | £66,166 | 552 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 511 |
| 1997 | £31,500 | £64,600 | 516 |
| 1996 | £33,500 | £70,650 | 513 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 450 |
In cash terms the typical SR8 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £93,000 in 2026, roughly 2.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 34%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 32% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SR8 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 2004 (+36.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. In 2021, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £238,000 against £41,000 for a flat, 5.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SR8
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 | £246,000 | 32 | 2,711 |
| Semi-detached | £137,000 | 52 | 4,804 |
| Terraced | £77,800 | 84 | 8,844 |
| Flats | £41,000 (2021) | – | 154 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 363 SR8 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 773 sales a year before the financial crisis and 444 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 SR8 market
Among the 8 measurable districts of its area, SR8 ranks 7 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of SR8
The local authority for SR8 is County Durham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £93,000 median sold price, £638 a month is £7,656 a year, a gross yield of 8.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: SR8 (Easington)
Is SR8 (Easington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SR8 (Easington)?
Are property prices falling in SR8 (Easington)?
Will SR8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in SR8 now
Everything above is what homes in SR8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the SR8 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ennerdale Close, Peterlee, County Durham, SR8 5QA, Peterlee
- Whitehouse Court, Easington Village, County Durham, SR8 3HZ, Easington Village
- Burdon Court, Horden, County Durham, SR8 4JA, Horden
"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 SR8 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SR8 ranks 3 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.
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.
Inside SR8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR8 1 | £184,000 | 32 |
| SR8 2 | £89,000 | 30 |
| SR8 3 | £95,000 | 42 |
| SR8 4 | £85,000 | 40 |
| SR8 5 | £93,000 | 25 |
How SR8 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 | £126,000 | +1% |
| SR8 (this report) | £93,000 | +13% |
| SR1 | £50,000 | -22% |
Thinking of selling in SR8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SR8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SR8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SR8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SR8.
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The live map plots every individual SR8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.