Valley View, Durham house prices are built from 123 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 3 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £86,950. Across the 17 years from 2007 to 2024 the median moved +12.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -31.7%.
Median price paid
£86,950
Change in cash, 2007–2024
+12.8%
Change in real terms
-31.7%
HM Land Registry123 salesLatest sale 3 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Valley View, Durham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Valley View, Durham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | £40,475 | £89,874 |
| 2000s | 6 | £81,000 | £147,558 |
| 2020s | 1 | £132,000 | £134,870 |
The highest yearly median on record for Valley View, Durham is £132,000 in 2024; the lowest is £35,950 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £40,475 to £132,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £87,800, so the real change over the whole record is +58.2% — about +1.65% 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: +12.8% in cash against -31.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 3 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £128,000 | £128,000 |
| 17 | 3 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 49 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 37 | 24 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| 57 | 12 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £127,000 | £133,634 |
| 25 | 18 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £146,000 | £153,627 |
| 60 | 11 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £122,500 | £128,899 |
| 21 | 28 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £137,000 | £144,157 |
| 11 | 6 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £121,007 |
| 1 | 30 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 2 | 25 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 45 | 23 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £40,000 | £46,343 |
| 8 | 9 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 41 | 2 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 51 | 26 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £109,000 | £137,715 |
| 57 | 23 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 60 | 1 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 1 | 16 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £135,950 |
| 3 | 19 May 2020 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £239,532 |
| 13 | 30 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £136,000 | £176,088 |
| 1 | 26 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £130,000 | £170,037 |
| 24 | 17 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 61 | 15 May 2019 | Terraced | £87,000 | £113,794 |
| 3 | 16 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £75,000 | £99,953 |
| 21 | 30 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £108,000 | £146,988 |
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 Valley View, Durham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Valley View | £42,000 (1999) | £128,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 17 Valley View | £46,950 (1999) | £125,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 49 Valley View | £39,950 (1996) | £185,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 37 Valley View | £105,000 (2015) | £135,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.7% |
| 57 Valley View | £28,025 (1997) | £127,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 25 Valley View | £96,500 (2013) | £146,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 60 Valley View | £31,500 (1997) | £122,500 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 21 Valley View | £48,000 (1995) | £137,000 (2024) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 11 Valley View | £53,950 (2002) | £115,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 1 Valley View | £59,995 (2000) | £155,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 2 Valley View | £44,000 (1997) | £145,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 8 Valley View | £45,000 (1997) | £125,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Valley View, 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 | 89 | 72.4% | £85,000 | £12,500 – £185,000 |
| Terraced | 31 | 25.2% | £96,250 | £28,025 – £155,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.6% | £42,000 | £42,000 – £58,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.8% | £41,500 | £41,500 – £41,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Valley View, Durham
30 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 24.4% 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 £53,450 and the median freehold sale £96,500 — a gap of +80.5%. 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 | 30 | 24.4% | £53,450 |
| Freehold | 93 | 75.6% | £96,500 |
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 Valley View, 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 £86,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.85% 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 DH7, 30 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 8 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.6 times quieter.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.06 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 Valley View, 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 DH7 postcode: 19 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 Bede's Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Lanchester | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,240 |
| Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 455 |
| Durham Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 405 |
| Esh Winning Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 287 |
| Brandon Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 280 |
| St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Esh Village | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Silver Tree Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 201 |
| Langley Moor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 195 |
| Sacriston Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 190 |
| Witton Gilbert Primary School | Primary | Community school | 188 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Durham Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 9.1 km |
| Bishop Auckland Rail Station | Rail | 14.8 km |
| Bishop Auckland West Station | Rail | 14.8 km |
Section 09
How Valley View, Durham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Valley View, Durham sits below that national figure — -44.8%.
Within Durham the street ranks 1006 of 1624 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £105,000 (-17.2%).
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 £12,500 to £185,000. 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.
Valley View, 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
- Front Street£87,500 median
- South View£69,000 median
- Meadowfield£125,000 median
- Norburn Park£78,000 median
- Station Road£72,500 median
- Cavendish Court£94,975 median
- Hilltop Road£82,565 median
- Beechwood Close£91,000 median
- Deerness Heights£82,500 median
- Holly Crescent£125,000 median
- Deneside£91,000 median
- Brancepeth View£125,000 median
- St Cuthberts Drive£82,473 median
- Eshwood View£119,995 median
- Welby Drive£134,975 median
- Oakwood£110,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 21 Valley View8 sales
- 60 Valley View6 sales
- 62 Valley View6 sales
- 17 Valley View5 sales
- 57 Valley View5 sales
- 23 Valley View4 sales
- 1 Valley View4 sales
- 8 Valley View4 sales
- 24 Valley View4 sales
- 46 Valley View4 sales
- 19 Valley View4 sales
- 2 Valley View3 sales
- 3 Valley View3 sales
- 13 Valley View3 sales
- 61 Valley View3 sales
- 38 Valley View3 sales
- 35 Valley View3 sales
- 58 Valley View3 sales
- 30 Valley View3 sales
- 63 Valley View3 sales
- 14 Valley View3 sales
- 53 Valley View3 sales
- 49 Valley View2 sales
- 37 Valley View2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Valley View, Durham?
The median price paid in Valley View, Durham across every sale on the register is £86,950. 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 Valley View, Durham?
123 sales are on record for Valley View, Durham, the most recent completing on 3 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Valley View, Durham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +12.8% between 2007 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -31.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Valley View, Durham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £132,000, set in 2024. 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 Valley View, 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 3 Feb 2026. 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, “Valley View, 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.