Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 20 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £80,000.
Median price paid
£80,000
Median per m²
£1,366
HM Land Registry88 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe prices moved
The chart tracks the median Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2005. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £60,225 | £109,712 |
The highest yearly median on record for Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe is £103,000 in 2005; the lowest is £55,548 in 2002. Across the full 4-year record the cash median has moved from £55,548 to £103,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,144, so the real change over the whole record is +75.1% — about +20.54% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 Apr 2026 | Detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 28 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £99,950 | £102,123 |
| 40 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £137,935 |
| 18 | 17 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 2 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £101,000 | £106,276 |
| 29 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £126,000 | £136,138 |
| 16 | 11 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £123,000 | £132,897 |
| 19 | 22 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 34 | 1 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £118,000 | £136,713 |
| 36 | 29 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 17 | 19 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 3 | 14 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £118,000 | £149,086 |
| 7 | 19 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 40 | 28 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £102,500 | £134,068 |
| 18 | 3 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £80,000 | £106,616 |
| 34 | 30 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £78,000 | £106,158 |
| 1 | 4 Nov 2016 | Detached | £127,000 | £177,297 |
| 2 | 30 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £87,500 | £122,153 |
| 8 | 11 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £80,000 | £111,683 |
| 14 | 11 Dec 2015 | Semi-detached | £88,000 | £124,080 |
| 29 | 14 Nov 2014 | Semi-detached | £93,000 | £133,398 |
| 11 | 31 May 2013 | Semi-detached | £97,000 | £141,437 |
| 29 | 29 Jun 2012 | Semi-detached | £85,000 | £126,960 |
| 36 | 1 Dec 2010 | Semi-detached | £106,000 | £169,264 |
| 2 | 1 Oct 2010 | Semi-detached | £88,000 | £140,521 |
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 Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Kestrel Court | £60,995 (2002) | £180,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 28 Kestrel Court | £50,595 (2002) | £99,950 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 40 Kestrel Court | £56,595 (2002) | £135,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 18 Kestrel Court | £53,500 (2003) | £115,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 2 Kestrel Court | £49,595 (2002) | £101,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 29 Kestrel Court | £63,950 (2003) | £126,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 16 Kestrel Court | £59,950 (2003) | £123,000 (2023) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| 19 Kestrel Court | £60,500 (2003) | £125,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 34 Kestrel Court | £46,995 (2002) | £118,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.1% |
| 36 Kestrel Court | £51,995 (2002) | £110,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| 17 Kestrel Court | £53,500 (2003) | £110,000 (2021) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
| 3 Kestrel Court | £54,995 (2002) | £118,000 (2021) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe 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 | 72 | 81.8% | £81,950 | £46,995 – £135,000 |
| Detached | 14 | 15.9% | £67,950 | £56,100 – £180,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 2.3% | £47,995 | £47,995 – £56,595 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 88 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 88 | 100.0% | £80,000 |
| New build | 39 | 44.3% | £56,100 |
| Existing home | 49 | 55.7% | £99,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -43.6%. 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 3 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 Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe
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 £80,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.62% 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 DL5, 377 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 119 violent, 36 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.72 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 Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe
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.
13 state and independent schools have a DL5 postcode: 10 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodham Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,071 |
| Greenfield Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 566 |
| Sugar Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 448 |
| Vane Road Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 427 |
| UTC South Durham | Secondary | University technical college | 421 |
| Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 285 |
| Heighington Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 248 |
| Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Byerley Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 207 |
| Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Newton Aycliffe Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Heighington Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Shildon Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Bishop Auckland Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe sits below that national figure — -49.2%.
Within Newton Aycliffe the street ranks 281 of 460 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £95,000 (-15.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,366 per square metre, across 17 of the 88 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 £46,995 to £180,000. 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.
Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe 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
- Hamsterley Road£80,000 median
- Pemberton Road£96,000 median
- Heatherburn Court£63,950 median
- Eade Close£84,998 median
- Birch Way£199,950 median
- Lockyer Close£63,300 median
- Pinewood Close£124,000 median
- Ashtree Close£122,250 median
- Wellhouse Road£126,995 median
- Haslewood Road£120,000 median
- Bewick Crescent£77,000 median
- Cypress Grove£121,950 median
- Mellanby Crescent£77,500 median
- Lisle Road£57,400 median
- Chestnut Way£179,995 median
- Foxglove Close£115,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2 Kestrel Court5 sales
- 29 Kestrel Court5 sales
- 34 Kestrel Court5 sales
- 36 Kestrel Court4 sales
- 3 Kestrel Court4 sales
- 1 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 28 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 40 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 18 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 19 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 17 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 14 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 12 Kestrel Court3 sales
- 16 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 7 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 8 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 11 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 35 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 9 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 10 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 26 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 15 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 6 Kestrel Court2 sales
- 31 Kestrel Court2 sales
Back to Newton Aycliffe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe?
The median price paid in Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe across every sale on the register is £80,000. 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 Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe?
88 sales are on record for Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe, the most recent completing on 20 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £103,000, set in 2005. 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 Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe?
£1,366 per square metre, from the 17 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 20 Apr 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, “Kestrel Court, Newton Aycliffe 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.