West End, Bishop Auckland house prices are built from 124 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 16 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £146,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -21.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -42.8%.
Median price paid
£146,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-21.1%
Change in real terms
-42.8%
Median per m²
£2,168
HM Land Registry124 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Oct 2025
Section 01
How West End, Bishop Auckland prices moved
The chart tracks the median West End, Bishop Auckland house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. 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 | 2 | £82,000 | £182,079 |
| 2000s | 3 | £120,000 | £218,605 |
| 2010s | 5 | £183,750 | £259,087 |
| 2020s | 2 | £143,000 | £146,109 |
The highest yearly median on record for West End, Bishop Auckland is £270,000 in 2017; the lowest is £80,000 in 2001. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £88,500 to £145,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £187,647, so the real change over the whole record is -21.0% — about -0.84% 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: -21.1% in cash against -42.8% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blossom Cottage | 16 Oct 2025 | Detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 76 | 11 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 1 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £127,000 | £129,761 |
| Willow Cottage, 5 | 27 May 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 26 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 9 | 12 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £302,777 | £318,594 |
| 33 | 10 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 23 | 3 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| Tyvonnay | 24 Jun 2022 | Detached | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| West House | 4 Feb 2022 | Detached | £342,000 | £396,237 |
| Milestone Cottage, 14 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £143,000 | £180,672 |
| 56 | 28 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £162,000 | £204,677 |
| 27 | 12 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £67,000 | £84,651 |
| 16 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £403,375 | £509,640 |
| 20 | 17 May 2021 | Terraced | £114,000 | £144,032 |
| Horseshoe Cottage, 52 | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £205,000 | £265,427 |
| 3 | 11 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £141,000 | £182,562 |
| Westholme Farm | 9 Apr 2020 | Detached | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| Bracken Edge | 5 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £416,800 | £545,165 |
| 4 | 16 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £218,000 | £285,139 |
| Westend Farm | 12 Nov 2018 | Detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
| 9 | 29 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £286,531 |
| 17 | 15 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £100,000 | £136,100 |
| 42 | 11 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £130,000 | £176,931 |
| 6a | 1 Dec 2017 | Detached | £408,000 | £555,290 |
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 West End, Bishop Auckland values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLOSSOM COTTAGE West End | £191,000 (2011) | £325,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 1 West End | £6,000 (1995) | £127,000 (2025) | +10.7% | +7.9% |
| 26 West End | £87,500 (2003) | £145,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 9 West End | £30,000 (2001) | £302,777 (2024) | +10.6% | +7.6% |
| 33 West End | £120,000 (2002) | £295,000 (2024) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| 23 West End | £170,000 (2014) | £390,000 (2023) | +9.7% | +6.3% |
| TYVONNAY West End | £340,000 (2004) | £600,000 (2022) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 27 West End | £28,000 (2001) | £67,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 16 West End | £37,500 (1998) | £403,375 (2021) | +10.9% | +8.5% |
| 20 West End | £71,500 (2012) | £114,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.4% |
| 3 West End | £66,250 (1995) | £141,000 (2020) | +3.1% | +0.9% |
| HORSESHOE COTTAGE, 52 West End | £195,000 (2016) | £205,000 (2020) | +1.3% | -0.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. West End, Bishop Auckland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 53 | 42.7% | £104,500 | £6,000 – £410,000 |
| Detached | 48 | 38.7% | £225,000 | £22,000 – £600,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 18.5% | £132,250 | £15,000 – £416,800 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in West End, Bishop Auckland
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 124 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 124 | 100.0% | £146,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.8% | £132,250 |
| Existing home | 123 | 99.2% | £147,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.0%. 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 8 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 West End, Bishop Auckland
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 £146,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.27% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around West End, Bishop Auckland
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John's Catholic School & Sixth Form College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,229 |
| King James I Academy Bishop Auckland | Secondary | Academy converter | 936 |
| Bishop Barrington Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 599 |
| St Anne's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 238 |
| St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School, Bishop Auckland | Primary | Academy converter | 219 |
| Prince Bishops Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 210 |
| St Helen Auckland Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Toft Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 203 |
| St Andrew's Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 191 |
| Etherley Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 190 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bishop Auckland West Station | Rail | 0.9 km |
| Bishop Auckland Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Shildon Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Newton Aycliffe Rail Station | Rail | 7.8 km |
Section 09
How West End, Bishop Auckland compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West End, Bishop Auckland sits below that national figure — -7.3%.
Within Bishop Auckland the street ranks 132 of 805 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £80,000 (+82.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,168 per square metre, across 2 of the 124 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 £6,000 to £600,000. 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.
West End, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- Barrington Meadows£114,725 median
- Manor Road£68,000 median
- Seymour Street£59,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 West End6 sales
- 5 West End6 sales
- 9 West End5 sales
- 1 West End4 sales
- TYVONNAY West End4 sales
- 16 West End4 sales
- 8 West End4 sales
- 26 West End3 sales
- 33 West End3 sales
- 23 West End3 sales
- 3 West End3 sales
- 4 West End3 sales
- 6A West End3 sales
- 62 West End3 sales
- 22 West End3 sales
- 31 West End3 sales
- BLOSSOM COTTAGE West End2 sales
- 27 West End2 sales
- 20 West End2 sales
- HORSESHOE COTTAGE, 52 West End2 sales
- BRACKEN EDGE West End2 sales
- WESTEND FARM West End2 sales
- 11 West End2 sales
- BROCKERSCLIFFE COTTAGE West End2 sales
Back to Bishop Auckland house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in West End, Bishop Auckland?
The median price paid in West End, Bishop Auckland across every sale on the register is £146,000. 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 West End, Bishop Auckland?
124 sales are on record for West End, Bishop Auckland, the most recent completing on 16 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have West End, Bishop Auckland house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -21.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -42.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were West End, Bishop Auckland house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, set in 2017. 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 West End, Bishop Auckland?
£2,168 per square metre, from the 2 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 16 Oct 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, “West End, 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.