Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland house prices

Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 14 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £47,725. Across the 13 years from 2006 to 2019 the median moved -45.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -59.8%.

HM Land Registry106 sales47 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Jul 2025

The chart tracks the median Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2019. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland is £73,000 in 2006; the lowest is £28,725 in 1999. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £31,500 to £39,950.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £65,316, so the real change over the whole record is -20.0% — about -1.06% 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: -45.3% in cash against -59.8% 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.

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.

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 Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 106 freehold — 0.0% 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.

A further 30 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.

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.

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 £47,725 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.12% 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 DL14, 334 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 103 violent, 12 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 67 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.

Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.64 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.

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.

25 state and independent schools have a DL14 postcode: 19 primary, 3 secondary, 2 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland sits below that national figure — -69.7%.

Within Bishop Auckland the street ranks 677 of 805 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £80,000 (-40.3%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £561 per square metre, across 47 of the 106 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 £4,000 to £180,000. 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.

Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland 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.

Streets nearby

• Northbridge Park£136,975 median
• West View£60,000 median
• Mayfield Walk£81,000 median
• Beckett Close£88,000 median
• Chestnut Court£72,000 median
• Woodhouse Lane£98,250 median
• Collingwood Street£47,500 median
• Cockton Hill Road£110,000 median
• Riverside£150,000 median
• Staindrop Road£82,750 median
• Etherley Lane£128,000 median
• Princes Street£48,000 median
• Newton Grange£140,000 median
• West End£146,000 median
• Barrington Meadows£114,725 median
• Manor Road£68,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 60 Surtees Street4 sales
• 66 Surtees Street4 sales
• 24 Surtees Street4 sales
• 64 Surtees Street4 sales
• 25 Surtees Street3 sales
• 39 Surtees Street3 sales
• 50 Surtees Street3 sales
• 6 Surtees Street3 sales
• 44 Surtees Street3 sales
• 12 Surtees Street3 sales
• 10 Surtees Street3 sales
• 32 Surtees Street3 sales
• 70 Surtees Street2 sales
• 55 Surtees Street2 sales
• 73 Surtees Street2 sales
• 15 Surtees Street2 sales
• 3 Surtees Street2 sales
• 22 Surtees Street2 sales
• 28 Surtees Street2 sales
• 72 Surtees Street2 sales
• 21 Surtees Street2 sales
• 23 Surtees Street2 sales
• 71 Surtees Street2 sales
• 54 Surtees Street2 sales

Back to Bishop Auckland house prices.

What is the average house price in Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland?

The median price paid in Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland across every sale on the register is £47,725. 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 Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland?

106 sales are on record for Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland, the most recent completing on 14 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -45.3% between 2006 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -59.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £73,000, set in 2006. 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 Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland?

£561 per square metre, from the 47 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 14 Jul 2025. 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, “Surtees Street, Bishop Auckland 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.