Leyburn Close, Chester le Street house prices are built from 119 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Oct 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £100,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +27.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.2%.
Median price paid
£100,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+27.3%
Change in real terms
-2.2%
HM Land Registry119 salesLatest sale 18 Oct 2024
Section 01
How Leyburn Close, Chester le Street prices moved
The chart tracks the median Leyburn Close, Chester le Street house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 | 4 | £40,500 | £89,929 |
| 2000s | 5 | £86,000 | £156,667 |
| 2020s | 1 | £140,000 | £143,043 |
The highest yearly median on record for Leyburn Close, Chester le Street is £140,000 in 2021; the lowest is £39,000 in 1995. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £39,000 to £140,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,598, so the real change over the whole record is +104.3% — about +2.78% 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: +27.3% in cash against -2.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 18 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £144,000 | £151,522 |
| 72 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| 32 | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £145,900 | £153,522 |
| 37 | 3 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 30 | 6 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £296,909 |
| 64 | 18 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £118,000 | £149,086 |
| 5 | 11 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £176,882 |
| 18 | 18 Mar 2021 | Detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 47 | 11 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £115,000 | £145,296 |
| 50 | 18 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £146,000 | £189,036 |
| 77 | 26 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £125,000 | £163,497 |
| 65 | 14 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £114,000 | £149,109 |
| 69 | 11 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £130,798 |
| 30 | 2 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £179,950 | £239,820 |
| 48 | 10 Apr 2018 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £193,242 |
| 47 | 18 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £111,500 | £151,752 |
| 74 | 5 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £110,000 | £149,710 |
| 34 | 16 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £87,000 | £121,455 |
| 53 | 11 Nov 2016 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £160,545 |
| 79 | 1 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £105,000 | £146,584 |
| 5 | 18 Dec 2015 | Semi-detached | £148,680 | £209,639 |
| 18 | 30 Oct 2015 | Detached | £170,000 | £239,700 |
| 34 | 15 Sep 2015 | Terraced | £75,000 | £105,750 |
| 1 | 20 Feb 2015 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £232,650 |
| 55 | 5 Sep 2014 | Detached | £155,000 | £222,330 |
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 Leyburn Close, Chester le Street values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 Leyburn Close | £45,500 (2000) | £144,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 72 Leyburn Close | £46,950 (1998) | £150,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 32 Leyburn Close | £42,950 (1998) | £145,900 (2024) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 37 Leyburn Close | £67,000 (2002) | £120,000 (2023) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 30 Leyburn Close | £174,950 (2009) | £235,000 (2021) | +2.5% | +0.3% |
| 5 Leyburn Close | £53,000 (1997) | £140,000 (2021) | +4.1% | +1.9% |
| 18 Leyburn Close | £81,500 (1998) | £255,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 47 Leyburn Close | £111,500 (2017) | £115,000 (2021) | +0.8% | -1.1% |
| 77 Leyburn Close | £39,000 (1995) | £125,000 (2019) | +5.0% | +2.7% |
| 65 Leyburn Close | £35,000 (1996) | £114,000 (2019) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| 69 Leyburn Close | £68,500 (2002) | £100,000 (2019) | +2.3% | -0.1% |
| 34 Leyburn Close | £50,260 (2007) | £87,000 (2016) | +6.3% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Leyburn Close, Chester le Street 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 | 63 | 52.9% | £78,000 | £31,500 – £193,000 |
| Semi-detached | 42 | 35.3% | £124,000 | £46,950 – £235,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 7.6% | £140,000 | £71,000 – £255,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 4.2% | £43,500 | £34,000 – £109,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Leyburn Close, Chester le Street
93 of the sales on record are leasehold and 26 freehold — 78.2% 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 £90,000 and the median freehold sale £113,500 — a gap of +26.1%. 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 | 93 | 78.2% | £90,000 |
| Freehold | 26 | 21.8% | £113,500 |
A further 11 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 Leyburn Close, Chester le Street
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 £100,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.69% 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 DH2, 165 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 46 violent, 7 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 45 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.32 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 Leyburn Close, Chester le Street
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.
9 state and independent schools have a DH2 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermitage Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 881 |
| Newker Primary School | Primary | Community school | 340 |
| Bullion Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 292 |
| Pelton Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 290 |
| Roseberry Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 266 |
| Chester-Le-Street CofE (Controlled) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 260 |
| Ouston Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 259 |
| St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston | Primary | Academy converter | 217 |
| Nettlesworth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 105 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Durham Rail Station | Rail | 9.0 km |
| Dunston Rail Station | Rail | 10.4 km |
| Felling (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 10.5 km |
Section 09
How Leyburn Close, Chester le Street compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Leyburn Close, Chester le Street sits below that national figure — -36.5%.
Within Chester le Street the street ranks 395 of 771 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £102,000 (-2.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £31,500 to £255,000. 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.
Leyburn Close, Chester le Street 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
- Thorntons Close£75,000 median
- Brackenbeds Close£115,000 median
- Queen Street£39,975 median
- Brantwood£116,000 median
- Bowmont Walk£70,000 median
- Sandringham Way£159,950 median
- Wensley Close£68,950 median
- Auckland£110,000 median
- Hilda Park£141,750 median
- Thornton Lea£73,225 median
- Warkworth Drive£152,000 median
- Elmway£135,000 median
- Graythwaite£133,000 median
- Wynyard£82,000 median
- Middleham Close£75,488 median
- West Street£32,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 79 Leyburn Close7 sales
- 65 Leyburn Close6 sales
- 64 Leyburn Close5 sales
- 5 Leyburn Close5 sales
- 77 Leyburn Close5 sales
- 72 Leyburn Close4 sales
- 32 Leyburn Close4 sales
- 34 Leyburn Close4 sales
- 68 Leyburn Close4 sales
- 78 Leyburn Close4 sales
- 30 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 18 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 76 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 36 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 3 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 71 Leyburn Close3 sales
- 37 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 47 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 69 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 27 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 81 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 9 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 40 Leyburn Close2 sales
- 19 Leyburn Close2 sales
Back to Chester le Street house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Leyburn Close, Chester le Street?
The median price paid in Leyburn Close, Chester le Street across every sale on the register is £100,000. 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 Leyburn Close, Chester le Street?
119 sales are on record for Leyburn Close, Chester le Street, the most recent completing on 18 Oct 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Leyburn Close, Chester le Street house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +27.3% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Leyburn Close, Chester le Street house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £140,000, set in 2021. 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 Leyburn Close, Chester le Street?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 18 Oct 2024. 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, “Leyburn Close, Chester le Street 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.