Dawlish Close, Seaham house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £94,998. Across the 9 years from 1998 to 2007 the median moved +124.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +88.1%.
Median price paid
£94,998
Change in cash, 1998–2007
+124.4%
Change in real terms
+88.1%
Median per m²
£1,018
HM Land Registry108 sales11 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Dawlish Close, Seaham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dawlish Close, Seaham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2007. 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 | £79,995 | £177,627 |
| 2000s | 6 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dawlish Close, Seaham is £179,500 in 2007; the lowest is £79,995 in 1998. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £79,995 to £179,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £165,872, so the real change over the whole record is +88.1% — about +7.28% 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: +124.4% in cash against +88.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 27 Mar 2026 | Detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| 5 | 15 Mar 2021 | Detached | £185,000 | £233,737 |
| 2 | 14 May 2020 | Detached | £242,500 | £313,981 |
| 41 | 23 Aug 2019 | Detached | £166,000 | £217,124 |
| 15 | 15 Mar 2019 | Detached | £165,000 | £215,816 |
| 47 | 15 Jan 2019 | Detached | £165,000 | £215,816 |
| 27 | 6 Jul 2018 | Detached | £185,000 | £246,550 |
| 52 | 6 Oct 2017 | Detached | £239,950 | £326,573 |
| 5 | 18 Dec 2015 | Detached | £158,000 | £222,780 |
| 43 | 23 Apr 2014 | Detached | £131,500 | £188,622 |
| 24 | 29 Nov 2013 | Detached | £178,000 | £259,545 |
| 31 | 27 Jun 2012 | Detached | £195,000 | £291,261 |
| 14 | 17 Jun 2011 | Detached | £207,500 | £318,016 |
| 47 | 17 Nov 2009 | Detached | £150,000 | £246,503 |
| 5 | 16 Oct 2009 | Detached | £152,000 | £249,790 |
| 26 | 20 Feb 2008 | Detached | £182,000 | £305,500 |
| 31 | 5 Nov 2007 | Detached | £195,000 | £339,026 |
| 52 | 19 Oct 2007 | Detached | £185,000 | £321,640 |
| 43 | 18 May 2007 | Detached | £147,000 | £255,573 |
| 18 | 8 May 2007 | Detached | £192,000 | £333,810 |
| 35 | 11 Apr 2007 | Detached | £172,500 | £299,908 |
| 12 | 24 Jan 2007 | Detached | £174,000 | £302,515 |
| 41 | 18 Aug 2006 | Detached | £150,000 | £267,045 |
| 15 | 30 Jun 2006 | Detached | £164,950 | £293,661 |
| 40 | 26 May 2006 | Detached | £178,000 | £316,894 |
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 Dawlish Close, Seaham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Dawlish Close | £101,995 (1999) | £380,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 5 Dawlish Close | £67,995 (1997) | £185,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 41 Dawlish Close | £67,995 (1998) | £166,000 (2019) | +4.3% | +2.1% |
| 15 Dawlish Close | £68,500 (1998) | £165,000 (2019) | +4.3% | +2.0% |
| 47 Dawlish Close | £68,995 (1998) | £165,000 (2019) | +4.2% | +2.0% |
| 27 Dawlish Close | £67,995 (1998) | £185,000 (2018) | +5.1% | +2.8% |
| 52 Dawlish Close | £103,000 (2002) | £239,950 (2017) | +5.8% | +3.4% |
| 43 Dawlish Close | £68,995 (1998) | £131,500 (2014) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 24 Dawlish Close | £77,995 (1998) | £178,000 (2013) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 31 Dawlish Close | £92,995 (1998) | £195,000 (2012) | +5.4% | +3.0% |
| 14 Dawlish Close | £94,995 (1998) | £207,500 (2011) | +6.2% | +3.8% |
| 26 Dawlish Close | £77,995 (1998) | £182,000 (2008) | +8.8% | +6.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dawlish Close, Seaham 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 | 108 | 100.0% | £94,995 | £64,595 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dawlish Close, Seaham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 108 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 | 108 | 100.0% | £94,998 |
| New build | 49 | 45.4% | £79,995 |
| Existing home | 59 | 54.6% | £150,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -46.7%. 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.
Section 07
Living in Dawlish Close, Seaham
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 £94,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.10% 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 SR7, 150 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 46 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.29 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 Dawlish Close, Seaham
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 SR7 postcode: 9 primary, 1 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaham High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,095 |
| Ribbon School | Primary | Academy converter | 514 |
| Seaham Trinity Primary School | Primary | Community school | 349 |
| St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 308 |
| Seaview Primary School | Primary | Community school | 256 |
| Westlea Primary School | Primary | Community school | 247 |
| Ropery Walk Primary School | Primary | Community school | 219 |
| New Seaham Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 216 |
| St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Seaham | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Murton | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 127 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Seaham Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
| Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 8.1 km |
| Horden | Rail | 8.2 km |
Section 09
How Dawlish Close, Seaham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dawlish Close, Seaham sits below that national figure — -39.7%.
Within Seaham the street ranks 153 of 432 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,950 (+11.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,018 per square metre, across 11 of the 108 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 £64,595 to £380,000. 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.
Dawlish Close, Seaham 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
- The Avenue£73,000 median
- Stoneycroft Way£140,000 median
- Princess Road£79,500 median
- Marsdon Way£200,000 median
- Runswick Drive£178,000 median
- St Helens Drive£122,500 median
- Beadnell Drive£147,000 median
- Melrose Crescent£78,000 median
- Milton Close£59,376 median
- Souter Drive£148,995 median
- Douglas Way£178,998 median
- Mappleton Drive£117,000 median
- Ilchester Street£27,000 median
- Weymouth Drive£133,000 median
- Derwent Close£75,000 median
- Watling Avenue£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Dawlish Close6 sales
- 41 Dawlish Close6 sales
- 43 Dawlish Close5 sales
- 36 Dawlish Close5 sales
- 47 Dawlish Close4 sales
- 31 Dawlish Close4 sales
- 2 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 15 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 27 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 52 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 24 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 14 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 26 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 18 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 35 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 12 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 49 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 51 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 39 Dawlish Close3 sales
- 3 Dawlish Close2 sales
- 40 Dawlish Close2 sales
- 37 Dawlish Close2 sales
- 17 Dawlish Close2 sales
- 38 Dawlish Close2 sales
Back to Seaham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dawlish Close, Seaham?
The median price paid in Dawlish Close, Seaham across every sale on the register is £94,998. 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 Dawlish Close, Seaham?
108 sales are on record for Dawlish Close, Seaham, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dawlish Close, Seaham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +124.4% between 1998 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +88.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dawlish Close, Seaham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £179,500, set in 2007. 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 Dawlish Close, Seaham?
£1,018 per square metre, from the 11 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 27 Mar 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, “Dawlish Close, Seaham 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.