Sold Price History


West View, Crook house prices

West View, Crook house prices are built from 89 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 14 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £57,500. Across the 10 years from 2005 to 2015 the median moved -25.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -42.5%.

Median price paid

£57,500

Change in cash, 2005–2015

-25.7%

Change in real terms

-42.5%

Median per m²

£776

HM Land Registry89 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Nov 2025

Section 01

How West View, Crook prices moved

The chart tracks the median West View, Crook house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2015. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

West View, Crook house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2015
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s2£20,000£44,409
2000s4£70,000£127,519
2010s1£52,000£73,320
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for West View, Crook is £81,000 in 2007; the lowest is £20,000 in 1999. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £24,000 to £52,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £53,291, so the real change over the whole record is +37.6% — about +1.61% 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: -25.7% in cash against -42.5% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
214 Nov 2025Terraced£75,000£76,630
2925 Sep 2025Terraced£58,000£59,261
918 Sep 2025Terraced£94,999£97,064
37 Mar 2025Terraced£70,000£71,522
1324 Oct 2024Terraced£105,000£110,485
2630 Aug 2024Terraced£79,000£83,127
622 Mar 2024Terraced£69,000£72,604
530 Nov 2023Terraced£105,000£113,448
1525 Oct 2023Terraced£77,000£83,195
1419 Oct 2023Semi-detached£81,999£88,597
1218 Nov 2022Terraced£105,000£121,652
1810 Jun 2022Terraced£96,000£111,224
2028 May 2021Terraced£95,000£120,027
430 Apr 2021Terraced£115,000£145,296
1712 Oct 2018Terraced£48,500£64,636
2610 Nov 2017Terraced£60,000£81,660
1116 Sep 2016Terraced£55,000£76,782
1118 Dec 2015Terraced£40,000£56,400
627 Nov 2015Terraced£34,000£47,940
1428 Sep 2015Semi-detached£54,000£76,140
1917 Jul 2015Terraced£59,250£83,543
146 Jan 2015Semi-detached£52,000£73,320
711 Oct 2013Terraced£57,500£83,842
2230 May 2013Terraced£39,000£56,867
431 Aug 2012Terraced£96,000£143,390
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 View, Crook values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
2 West View£32,000 (1997)£75,000 (2025)+3.1%+0.4%
29 West View£28,000 (1998)£58,000 (2025)+2.7%+0.1%
9 West View£70,000 (2005)£94,999 (2025)+1.5%-1.4%
3 West View£75,000 (2006)£70,000 (2025)-0.4%-3.2%
13 West View£81,500 (2006)£105,000 (2024)+1.4%-1.5%
26 West View£20,000 (1999)£79,000 (2024)+5.6%+2.9%
6 West View£77,995 (2005)£69,000 (2024)-0.6%-3.5%
5 West View£33,000 (2001)£105,000 (2023)+5.4%+2.6%
15 West View£32,000 (1998)£77,000 (2023)+3.6%+0.9%
14 West View£58,000 (2007)£81,999 (2023)+2.2%-0.8%
12 West View£31,995 (1995)£105,000 (2022)+4.5%+2.0%
18 West View£13,500 (1999)£96,000 (2022)+8.9%+6.3%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced8696.6%£57,500£11,000 – £115,000
Semi-detached33.4%£54,000£52,000 – £81,999
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in West View, Crook

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 89 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold00.0%
Freehold89100.0%£57,500
New build11.1%£81,500
Existing home8898.9%£56,250
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +44.9%. 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 10 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 View, Crook

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 bandCertificatesShare
A1,9550.6%
B26,3248.5%
C111,77336.2%
D123,57540.0%
E34,30411.1%
F8,1532.6%
G2,6650.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in County Durham.

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 £57,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.38% 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 DL15, 96 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 33 violent, 4 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 28 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.

Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.18 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 View, Crook

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.

12 state and independent schools have a DL15 postcode: 11 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Parkside AcademySecondaryAcademy converter833
Crook Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school342
Hartside Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter241
St Stephen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school213
Howden-le-Wear Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter179
Willington Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school156
Stanley (Crook) Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school128
Peases West AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter126
Our Lady and St Thomas Catholic Primary School, WillingtonPrimaryAcademy converter122
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, CrookPrimaryAcademy converter117
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Bishop Auckland West StationRail6.8 km
Bishop Auckland Rail StationRail6.9 km
Wolsingham Rail StationRail10.0 km
Shildon Rail StationRail11.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How West View, Crook compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West View, Crook sits below that national figure — -63.5%.

Within Crook the street ranks 293 of 384 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £81,995 (-29.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £776 per square metre, across 18 of the 89 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 £11,000 to £115,000. 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 View, Crook 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Crook house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in West View, Crook?

The median price paid in West View, Crook across every sale on the register is £57,500. 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 View, Crook?

89 sales are on record for West View, Crook, the most recent completing on 14 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have West View, Crook house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -25.7% between 2005 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -42.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were West View, Crook house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £81,000, set in 2007. 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 View, Crook?

£776 per square metre, from the 18 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 Nov 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 View, Crook 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.