Brandon house prices are built from 11,376 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.9%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+42.2%
Change in real terms
+1.9%
Median per m²
£1,612
HM Land Registry11,376 sales1,726 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Brandon prices moved
The chart tracks the median Brandon house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £46,500 | £103,252 |
| 2000s | 10 | £125,000 | £227,713 |
| 2010s | 10 | £125,000 | £176,250 |
| 2020s | 7 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Brandon is £237,500 in 2025; the lowest is £43,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £227,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +127.7% — about +2.69% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +42.2% in cash against +1.9% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Riverside Way | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £132,500 | £132,500 |
| 34 the Orchard | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £82,000 | £82,000 |
| 23 Linnet Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £217,500 | £217,500 |
| 12 Rectory Lane | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £284,000 | £284,000 |
| 7 Broom Road Close | 20 May 2026 | Detached | £202,000 | £202,000 |
| 30 Riverside Way | 18 May 2026 | Detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 7 Cedar Close | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 8 Wingfield Avenue | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 30 Rowan Drive | 13 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 6 Chestnut Close | 12 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 5 Kitchener Close | 8 May 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 19 Gorse Close | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 29 Fengate Drove | 30 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £92,000 | £92,000 |
| 68 Rowan Drive | 29 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 19 Glebe Road | 27 Apr 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 17 Eriswell Road | 27 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 53 Rowan Drive | 27 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 9 Oak Lane | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £222,000 | £222,000 |
| 59 Rowan Drive | 22 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 7 Stuart Close | 17 Apr 2026 | Detached | £268,000 | £268,000 |
| 8 St Anthonys Way | 10 Apr 2026 | Detached | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 4 West Drive | 9 Apr 2026 | Detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 1B Crown Street | 9 Apr 2026 | Detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 16 Woodcock Rise | 9 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 2A Pinewood Drive | 9 Apr 2026 | Detached | £230,000 | £230,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Brandon values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 Riverside Way | £33,950 (1995) | £132,500 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 34 the Orchard | £89,000 (2004) | £82,000 (2026) | -0.4% | -3.1% |
| 23 Linnet Crescent | £110,000 (2012) | £217,500 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 12 Rectory Lane | £106,000 (2003) | £284,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 7 Broom Road Close | £59,000 (2000) | £202,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 30 Riverside Way | £75,000 (1995) | £320,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 7 Cedar Close | £119,950 (2014) | £270,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +3.8% |
| 8 Wingfield Avenue | £96,000 (2013) | £170,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
| 30 Rowan Drive | £49,500 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 6 Chestnut Close | £40,500 (1995) | £190,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 5 Kitchener Close | £250,000 (2005) | £395,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 19 Gorse Close | £42,000 (1999) | £185,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Brandon is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 5,236 | 46.0% | £150,000 | £3,000 – £1,700,385 |
| Semi-detached | 3,017 | 26.5% | £117,000 | £13,200 – £405,000 |
| Terraced | 2,772 | 24.4% | £112,000 | £17,220 – £650,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 351 | 3.1% | £68,000 | £14,500 – £200,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Brandon
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 2,662 certificates cover Brandon, and their median floor area is 77 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 60 m² | about 646 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 97 m² | about 1,044 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 24.2% | 644 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 5.4% | 144 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Brandon
402 of the sales on record are leasehold and 10,974 freehold — 3.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £70,000 and the median freehold sale £128,500 — a gap of +83.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 402 | 3.5% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 10,974 | 96.5% | £128,500 |
| New build | 1,038 | 9.1% | £159,995 |
| Existing home | 10,338 | 90.9% | £124,773 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +28.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 537 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Brandon
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.15% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of DH7, 30 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 8 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.6 times quieter.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.06 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Brandon
The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
22 state and independent schools have a DH7 postcode: 19 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,240 |
| Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 455 |
| Durham Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 405 |
| Esh Winning Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 287 |
| Brandon Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 280 |
| St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Esh Village | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 201 |
| Langley Moor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 195 |
| Sacriston Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 190 |
| Witton Gilbert Primary School | Primary | Community school | 188 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Durham Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 9.1 km |
| Bishop Auckland Rail Station | Rail | 14.8 km |
| Bishop Auckland West Station | Rail | 14.8 km |
Section 09
How Brandon compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Brandon sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,612 per square metre, across 1,726 of the 11,376 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £3,000 to £1,700,385. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Brandon sits in County Durham, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Brandon
- London Road353 sales
- Seymour Avenue279 sales
- Rowan Drive254 sales
- St Benedicts Road241 sales
- High Street216 sales
- Riverside Way182 sales
- Thetford Road180 sales
- Eriswell Drive164 sales
- Spruce Drive161 sales
- Angerstein Close138 sales
- St Edmund Road136 sales
- Castle Close131 sales
- Roebuck Drive130 sales
- Edmund Road129 sales
- Caudle Avenue127 sales
- The Chase123 sales
- Cromwell Road121 sales
- Ash Close120 sales
- Crown Street115 sales
- Oaklands Drive114 sales
- Woodcock Rise114 sales
- Warren Close111 sales
- The Maltings110 sales
- Heath Road108 sales
- Bluebell Walk97 sales
- Woodlands Rise97 sales
- Leamon Court95 sales
- The Paddocks95 sales
- The Orchard94 sales
- Covey Way93 sales
- Peppers Close92 sales
- Gorse Close88 sales
- Walnut Close85 sales
- Primrose Drive84 sales
- Sandgalls Road84 sales
- St Nicholas Walk84 sales
- Woodcutters Way81 sales
- Mounts Pit Lane80 sales
- Hereward Way79 sales
- Downham Way78 sales
- St Margarets Drive78 sales
- Rattlers Road77 sales
- The Rookery76 sales
- Bury Road75 sales
- Swallow Drive73 sales
- Eriswell Road72 sales
- Pinewood Drive72 sales
- Briscoe Way70 sales
- Shadwell Close67 sales
- Hillside65 sales
- Wingfield Road65 sales
- Wings Road64 sales
- Saffron Close62 sales
- Chestnut Close61 sales
- Queens Road59 sales
- Rought Avenue59 sales
- Cedar Way58 sales
- Earls Field57 sales
- Falcon Drive57 sales
- Robin Walk57 sales
Postcode districts covering Brandon
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Brandon?
The median price paid in Brandon across every sale on the register is £125,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Brandon?
11,376 sales are on record for Brandon, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Brandon house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Brandon house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £237,500, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Brandon?
£1,612 per square metre, from the 1,726 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Brandon house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.