Bridgemere Drive, Durham house prices are built from 179 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £88,500. Across the 17 years from 2006 to 2023 the median moved +24.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -24.6%.
Median price paid
£88,500
Change in cash, 2006–2023
+24.3%
Change in real terms
-24.6%
HM Land Registry179 salesLatest sale 12 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Bridgemere Drive, Durham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bridgemere Drive, Durham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | £61,425 | £136,393 |
| 2000s | 7 | £104,000 | £189,457 |
| 2010s | 2 | £177,000 | £249,570 |
| 2020s | 1 | £197,000 | £201,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bridgemere Drive, Durham is £197,000 in 2023; the lowest is £48,250 in 1995. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £48,250 to £197,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,138, so the real change over the whole record is +98.7% — about +2.48% 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: +24.3% in cash against -24.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71 | 12 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 28 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 19 | 17 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 12c | 16 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 12a | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £191,000 | £206,368 |
| 52 | 22 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 25 | 31 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £154,000 | £166,391 |
| 27 | 15 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £183,678 |
| 12b | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £219,333 |
| 63 | 15 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £257,000 | £277,678 |
| 22 | 20 Dec 2022 | Detached | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 73 | 25 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £248,000 | £287,329 |
| 45 | 14 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £185,500 | £214,918 |
| 73 | 23 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £226,584 |
| 12a | 14 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £164,950 | £213,572 |
| 18 | 11 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £156,957 |
| 41 | 9 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £113,000 | £147,801 |
| 28 | 2 Aug 2019 | Detached | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 43 | 26 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £228,896 |
| 64 | 15 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £268,135 |
| 31 | 12 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £229,000 | £299,527 |
| 12b | 31 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £206,569 |
| 5 | 18 Oct 2018 | Detached | £206,531 | £275,245 |
| 17 | 2 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £206,569 |
| 12a | 12 May 2017 | Semi-detached | £137,000 | £186,458 |
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 Bridgemere Drive, Durham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71 Bridgemere Drive | £67,650 (1998) | £240,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 28 Bridgemere Drive | £81,650 (1998) | £230,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 19 Bridgemere Drive | £59,950 (1995) | £245,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 12C Bridgemere Drive | £79,950 (2002) | £185,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 12A Bridgemere Drive | £137,000 (2017) | £191,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +1.7% |
| 52 Bridgemere Drive | £60,950 (1998) | £245,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 25 Bridgemere Drive | £50,950 (1997) | £154,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.7% |
| 27 Bridgemere Drive | £50,750 (1997) | £170,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 12B Bridgemere Drive | £145,000 (2009) | £203,000 (2023) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 63 Bridgemere Drive | £76,950 (1998) | £257,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 22 Bridgemere Drive | £75,950 (1997) | £340,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.6% |
| 73 Bridgemere Drive | £66,950 (1998) | £248,000 (2022) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bridgemere Drive, Durham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 144 | 80.4% | £78,000 | £11,875 – £257,000 |
| Detached | 33 | 18.4% | £100,500 | £68,500 – £340,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.1% | £51,450 | £51,450 – £107,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bridgemere Drive, Durham
127 of the sales on record are leasehold and 52 freehold — 70.9% 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 £75,950 and the median freehold sale £121,500 — a gap of +60.0%. 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 | 127 | 70.9% | £75,950 |
| Freehold | 52 | 29.1% | £121,500 |
| New build | 62 | 34.6% | £60,950 |
| Existing home | 117 | 65.4% | £126,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.0%. 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 7 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 Bridgemere Drive, Durham
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 £88,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.69% 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 DH1, 304 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 78 violent, 7 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 48 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.58 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 Bridgemere Drive, Durham
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 DH1 postcode: 16 primary, 4 secondary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Sixth Form Centre | 16 plus | Academy 16-19 converter | 1,747 |
| Durham Johnston Comprehensive School | Secondary | Community school | 1,667 |
| St Leonard's Catholic School, Durham | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,293 |
| Framwellgate School Durham | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,204 |
| Belmont Community School | Secondary | Community school | 887 |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 397 |
| Framwellgate Moor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 375 |
| Neville's Cross Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 277 |
| Belmont CofE (Controlled) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 261 |
| Blue Coat CofE (Aided) Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 214 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Durham Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Seaham Rail Station | Rail | 15.4 km |
| South Hylton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 15.5 km |
Section 09
How Bridgemere Drive, Durham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bridgemere Drive, Durham sits below that national figure — -43.8%.
Within Durham the street ranks 986 of 1624 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £105,000 (-15.7%).
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 £11,875 to £340,000. 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.
Bridgemere Drive, Durham 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
- High Street£95,000 median
- Canterbury Road£135,000 median
- The Avenue£118,525 median
- Harvey Avenue£212,250 median
- Devonshire Road£152,750 median
- Gilesgate£161,000 median
- New Elvet£125,000 median
- York Crescent£136,000 median
- Broomside Lane£79,500 median
- Bek Road£109,000 median
- Grinstead Way£134,000 median
- Habgood Drive£74,000 median
- Ferens Park£185,250 median
- Rothbury Road£108,000 median
- Kirkwood Drive£284,000 median
- Durham Moor£146,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 27 Bridgemere Drive6 sales
- 11 Bridgemere Drive6 sales
- 18 Bridgemere Drive5 sales
- 17 Bridgemere Drive5 sales
- 24 Bridgemere Drive5 sales
- 42 Bridgemere Drive5 sales
- 25 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 12B Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 73 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 45 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 43 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 64 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 5 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 32 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 21 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 7 Bridgemere Drive4 sales
- 71 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 28 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 19 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 12C Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 12A Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 52 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 63 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
- 22 Bridgemere Drive3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bridgemere Drive, Durham?
The median price paid in Bridgemere Drive, Durham across every sale on the register is £88,500. 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 Bridgemere Drive, Durham?
179 sales are on record for Bridgemere Drive, Durham, the most recent completing on 12 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bridgemere Drive, Durham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +24.3% between 2006 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -24.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bridgemere Drive, Durham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £197,000, set in 2023. 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 Bridgemere Drive, Durham?
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 12 Dec 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, “Bridgemere Drive, Durham 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.