The Meadows, Houghton le Spring house prices are built from 99 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £148,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved 0.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -27.5%.
Median price paid
£148,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
0.0%
Change in real terms
-27.5%
HM Land Registry99 salesLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How The Meadows, Houghton le Spring prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Meadows, Houghton le Spring house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | £74,500 | £165,425 |
| 2000s | 3 | £150,000 | £273,256 |
| 2010s | 1 | £175,000 | £246,750 |
| 2020s | 3 | £177,500 | £181,359 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Meadows, Houghton le Spring is £212,500 in 2022; the lowest is £74,500 in 1999. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £83,750 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £181,673, so the real change over the whole record is -1.6% — about -0.05% 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: 0.0% in cash against -27.5% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 11 | 23 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £157,000 | £160,413 |
| 38 | 12 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £123,750 | £126,440 |
| 17 | 12 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 29 | 30 Jan 2025 | Detached | £254,000 | £259,522 |
| 6 | 17 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £209,457 |
| 47 | 31 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 48 | 9 Aug 2024 | Detached | £272,500 | £286,735 |
| 15 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £186,772 |
| 10 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £168,000 | £176,776 |
| 38 | 15 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 44 | 30 Aug 2023 | Detached | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 38 | 7 Aug 2023 | Detached | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| 42 | 19 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 27 | 17 Jun 2022 | Detached | £277,500 | £321,508 |
| 48 | 20 Apr 2022 | Detached | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 41 | 28 Mar 2022 | Detached | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| 23 | 14 Feb 2022 | Detached | £194,000 | £224,766 |
| 18 | 21 Jan 2022 | Detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 50 | 9 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 50 | 2 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £129,950 | £168,255 |
| 50 | 23 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £119,000 | £154,077 |
| 30 | 17 Jan 2020 | Detached | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 30 | 16 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £261,530 |
| 51 | 29 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £142,000 | £185,733 |
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 The Meadows, Houghton le Spring values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 the Meadows | £230,000 (2023) | £190,000 (2026) | -6.2% | -8.6% |
| 11 the Meadows | £52,000 (2001) | £157,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 17 the Meadows | £30,000 (1996) | £175,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 29 the Meadows | £81,950 (1997) | £254,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| 6 the Meadows | £84,800 (1996) | £205,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.4% |
| 47 the Meadows | £100,000 (1998) | £215,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 48 the Meadows | £100,000 (2009) | £272,500 (2024) | +6.9% | +3.8% |
| 15 the Meadows | £170,000 (2003) | £177,500 (2024) | +0.2% | -2.6% |
| 10 the Meadows | £92,000 (2010) | £168,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| 42 the Meadows | £160,000 (2018) | £210,000 (2022) | +7.0% | +3.4% |
| 27 the Meadows | £82,000 (1998) | £277,500 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 41 the Meadows | £152,000 (2015) | £215,000 (2022) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Meadows, Houghton le Spring 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 56 | 56.6% | £156,000 | £43,000 – £277,500 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 43.4% | £130,000 | £30,000 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Meadows, Houghton le Spring
12 of the sales on record are leasehold and 87 freehold — 12.1% 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 £122,500 and the median freehold sale £149,950 — a gap of +22.4%. 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 | 12 | 12.1% | £122,500 |
| Freehold | 87 | 87.9% | £149,950 |
A further 1 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 The Meadows, Houghton le Spring
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 £148,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.18% 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 DH4, 103 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 33 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 16 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.20 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 The Meadows, Houghton le Spring
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.
11 state and independent schools have a DH4 postcode: 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kepier | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,131 |
| Dubmire Primary | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 479 |
| Newbottle Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 437 |
| Barnwell Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 302 |
| Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, Penshaw | Primary | Academy converter | 291 |
| Shiney Row Primary School | Primary | Community school | 249 |
| Woodlea Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 197 |
| Burnside Academy Inspires | Primary | Academy converter | 174 |
| West Rainton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 148 |
| New Penshaw Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 112 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| South Hylton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 6.3 km |
| Pallion (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
| Pallion (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
Section 09
How The Meadows, Houghton le Spring compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Meadows, Houghton le Spring sits below that national figure — -5.7%.
Within Houghton le Spring the street ranks 230 of 867 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £98,000 (+51.5%).
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 £30,000 to £277,500. 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.
The Meadows, Houghton le Spring 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
- Weymouth Drive£219,950 median
- Station Road£95,000 median
- Okehampton Drive£93,225 median
- Whitworth Park Drive£208,995 median
- Trinity Park£125,750 median
- St Godrics Drive£69,950 median
- Front Street£63,000 median
- Barnwell View£175,000 median
- Harwood Drive£147,950 median
- Whitefield Crescent£125,000 median
- South Street£85,000 median
- Moorsfield£93,250 median
- Birkdale Drive£94,950 median
- Cottonwood£134,975 median
- Richmond Drive£117,750 median
- Durham Road£99,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 11 the Meadows6 sales
- 50 the Meadows5 sales
- 38 the Meadows4 sales
- 17 the Meadows4 sales
- 48 the Meadows4 sales
- 25 the Meadows4 sales
- 29 the Meadows3 sales
- 6 the Meadows3 sales
- 47 the Meadows3 sales
- 15 the Meadows3 sales
- 10 the Meadows3 sales
- 27 the Meadows3 sales
- 30 the Meadows3 sales
- 51 the Meadows3 sales
- 19 the Meadows3 sales
- 39 the Meadows3 sales
- 40 the Meadows3 sales
- 21 the Meadows3 sales
- 42 the Meadows2 sales
- 41 the Meadows2 sales
- 18 the Meadows2 sales
- 2 the Meadows2 sales
- 36 the Meadows2 sales
- 14 the Meadows2 sales
Back to Houghton le Spring house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Meadows, Houghton le Spring?
The median price paid in The Meadows, Houghton le Spring across every sale on the register is £148,500. 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 The Meadows, Houghton le Spring?
99 sales are on record for The Meadows, Houghton le Spring, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Meadows, Houghton le Spring house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose 0.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -27.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Meadows, Houghton le Spring house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £212,500, set in 2022. 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 The Meadows, Houghton le Spring?
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 5 Jun 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, “The Meadows, Houghton le Spring 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.