Seaside Lane, Peterlee house prices are built from 93 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 28 May 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £60,000. Across the 11 years from 2010 to 2021 the median moved +150.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +97.8%.
Median price paid
£60,000
Change in cash, 2010–2021
+150.0%
Change in real terms
+97.8%
Median per m²
£280
HM Land Registry93 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 28 May 2025
Section 01
How Seaside Lane, Peterlee prices moved
The chart tracks the median Seaside Lane, Peterlee house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £30,000 | £66,614 |
| 2000s | 3 | £40,000 | £72,868 |
| 2010s | 1 | £72,000 | £101,520 |
| 2020s | 1 | £180,000 | £183,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Seaside Lane, Peterlee is £180,000 in 2021; the lowest is £26,000 in 2003. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £30,000 to £180,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £61,127, so the real change over the whole record is +272.0% — about +6.15% 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: +150.0% in cash against +97.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley House | 28 May 2025 | Terraced | £63,000 | £64,370 |
| 39a | 22 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £50,000 | £52,612 |
| Leeholme | 16 Feb 2023 | Detached | £262,000 | £283,080 |
| Elgin House | 19 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £88,000 | £101,956 |
| 17a | 7 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £71,750 | £83,129 |
| 1 Grange House | 5 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £100,000 | £115,859 |
| Easington House | 22 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £79,500 | £100,444 |
| Carlton House | 28 Sep 2021 | Detached | £229,950 | £290,528 |
| Hawthorn View | 6 Aug 2021 | Detached | £175,000 | £221,102 |
| 37 | 21 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| Red Lea | 26 Mar 2021 | Detached | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| Red Gables | 15 Mar 2021 | Detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 38a | 19 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £25,000 | £32,369 |
| Carmel Grove | 5 Jul 2019 | Detached | £195,000 | £255,056 |
| Leeholme | 11 Apr 2018 | Detached | £215,000 | £286,531 |
| Peace Haven | 6 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £39,000 | £51,975 |
| Bonnyrigg | 17 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £143,500 | £195,304 |
| Carlton House | 30 Aug 2017 | Detached | £202,000 | £274,923 |
| 28 | 30 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £72,500 | £98,673 |
| Elgin House | 18 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £68,500 | £95,629 |
| Red Lea | 1 Dec 2015 | Detached | £237,500 | £334,875 |
| 38a | 30 Jun 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £42,000 | £59,220 |
| 28 | 31 Mar 2014 | Terraced | £49,500 | £71,002 |
| 35a | 4 Feb 2013 | Terraced | £35,500 | £51,763 |
| 3 | 18 Dec 2012 | Terraced | £35,000 | £52,278 |
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 Seaside Lane, Peterlee values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STANLEY HOUSE Seaside Lane | £37,500 (2005) | £63,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 39A Seaside Lane | £60,000 (2006) | £50,000 (2024) | -1.0% | -3.9% |
| LEEHOLME Seaside Lane | £88,000 (2000) | £262,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| ELGIN HOUSE Seaside Lane | £22,000 (1999) | £88,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.6% |
| CARLTON HOUSE Seaside Lane | £202,000 (2017) | £229,950 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.4% |
| RED LEA Seaside Lane | £199,000 (2009) | £260,000 (2021) | +2.3% | +0.0% |
| 38A Seaside Lane | £17,200 (2004) | £25,000 (2020) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| CARMEL GROVE Seaside Lane | £62,000 (1997) | £195,000 (2019) | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| 28 Seaside Lane | £40,000 (1997) | £72,500 (2017) | +3.0% | +0.8% |
| 35A Seaside Lane | £15,000 (1998) | £35,500 (2013) | +5.9% | +3.5% |
| THORPE LEA Seaside Lane | £110,000 (2002) | £200,000 (2012) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 36A Seaside Lane | £62,000 (2006) | £82,000 (2011) | +5.8% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Seaside Lane, Peterlee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 55 | 59.1% | £46,000 | £11,000 – £120,000 |
| Detached | 20 | 21.5% | £175,000 | £60,000 – £262,000 |
| Semi-detached | 10 | 10.8% | £68,500 | £22,000 – £143,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 8.6% | £27,500 | £16,800 – £160,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Seaside Lane, Peterlee
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 89 freehold — 4.3% 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 £31,750 and the median freehold sale £60,000 — a gap of +89.0%. 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 | 4 | 4.3% | £31,750 |
| Freehold | 89 | 95.7% | £60,000 |
A further 31 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 Seaside Lane, Peterlee
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 £60,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.82% 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 SR8, 306 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 108 violent, 8 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 52 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 0.59 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 Seaside Lane, Peterlee
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.
19 state and independent schools have a SR8 postcode: 12 primary, 4 secondary, 2 nursery, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Academy at Shotton Hall | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,202 |
| St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College | Secondary | Academy converter | 891 |
| Easington Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 769 |
| Dene Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 638 |
| Easington Colliery Primary School | Primary | Community school | 525 |
| Howletch Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 382 |
| Shotton Hall Primary School | Primary | Community school | 350 |
| Dene House Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 303 |
| Seascape Primary School | Primary | Community school | 263 |
| Acre Rigg Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 257 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Horden | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Seaham Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Hartlepool Rail Station | Rail | 12.2 km |
| Seaton Carew Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
Section 09
How Seaside Lane, Peterlee compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Seaside Lane, Peterlee sits below that national figure — -61.9%.
Within Peterlee the street ranks 283 of 501 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £63,000 (-4.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £280 per square metre, across 1 of the 93 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 £262,000. 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.
Seaside Lane, Peterlee 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
- Brougham Court£89,000 median
- Seventh Street£27,500 median
- Hatfield Place£77,000 median
- Cotsford Park Estate£43,250 median
- Lindisfarne£49,950 median
- Barsloan Grove£57,225 median
- Holm Hill Gardens£120,000 median
- The Coppice£149,950 median
- Rosedale Terrace£63,000 median
- Lakemore£77,725 median
- Eleventh Street£26,000 median
- Twelfth Street£25,000 median
- Garside Grove£60,000 median
- Pentland Close£64,250 median
- Third Street£28,000 median
- Oak Road£67,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 38A Seaside Lane5 sales
- 5 Seaside Lane5 sales
- ELGIN HOUSE Seaside Lane4 sales
- ABOUASSIE HOUSE Seaside Lane4 sales
- 39A Seaside Lane3 sales
- LEEHOLME Seaside Lane3 sales
- RED LEA Seaside Lane3 sales
- CARMEL GROVE Seaside Lane3 sales
- 28 Seaside Lane3 sales
- 35A Seaside Lane3 sales
- STANLEY HOUSE Seaside Lane2 sales
- CARLTON HOUSE Seaside Lane2 sales
- THORPE LEA Seaside Lane2 sales
- 36A Seaside Lane2 sales
- BARNETT HOUSE, 7 Seaside Lane2 sales
- POST OFFICE HOUSE Seaside Lane2 sales
- CRADDOCK HOUSE Seaside Lane2 sales
- 17 Seaside Lane2 sales
- NORMA HOUSE, 11 Seaside Lane2 sales
- 30 Seaside Lane2 sales
- LINTON HOUSE Seaside Lane2 sales
- GLENHOLME CAFE & BAKERY Seaside Lane2 sales
- CRAIGLEE Seaside Lane2 sales
Back to Peterlee house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Seaside Lane, Peterlee?
The median price paid in Seaside Lane, Peterlee across every sale on the register is £60,000. 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 Seaside Lane, Peterlee?
93 sales are on record for Seaside Lane, Peterlee, the most recent completing on 28 May 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Seaside Lane, Peterlee house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +150.0% between 2010 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +97.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Seaside Lane, Peterlee house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £180,000, set in 2021. 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 Seaside Lane, Peterlee?
£280 per square metre, from the 1 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 28 May 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, “Seaside Lane, Peterlee 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.