Morton Close, Seaham house prices are built from 93 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £109,245. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +140.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +86.2%.
Median price paid
£109,245
Change in cash, 2012–2022
+140.0%
Change in real terms
+86.2%
HM Land Registry93 salesLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Morton Close, Seaham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Morton Close, Seaham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2008 to 2022. 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 | 2 | £123,495 | £224,972 |
| 2010s | 5 | £99,995 | £140,993 |
| 2020s | 1 | £240,000 | £245,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Morton Close, Seaham is £240,000 in 2022; the lowest is £90,000 in 2017. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £123,495 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £207,295, so the real change over the whole record is +34.1% — about +2.12% 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: +140.0% in cash against +86.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 66 | 4 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £129,950 | £132,775 |
| 37 | 30 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £128,000 | £134,687 |
| 57 | 6 Sep 2024 | Detached | £232,000 | £244,119 |
| 35 | 19 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £97,500 | £102,593 |
| 5 | 17 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £87,500 | £94,540 |
| 34 | 16 May 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 56 | 20 Dec 2022 | Detached | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 67 | 28 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £97,500 | £112,962 |
| 55 | 4 Nov 2022 | Detached | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 18 | 16 Sep 2022 | Detached | £252,000 | £291,964 |
| 39 | 8 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £109,950 | £127,387 |
| 36 | 19 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 23 | 5 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £99,950 | £126,281 |
| 65 | 26 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £98,500 | £124,449 |
| 35 | 15 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £84,000 | £106,129 |
| 12 | 16 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 30 | 20 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £87,500 | £113,292 |
| 64 | 12 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £118,000 | £154,341 |
| 6 | 24 May 2019 | Terraced | £76,000 | £99,406 |
| 40 | 9 May 2019 | Terraced | £110,000 | £143,878 |
| 33 | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £104,000 | £136,030 |
| 59 | 5 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £92,000 | £122,609 |
| 23 | 31 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £85,000 | £113,280 |
| 5 | 20 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £65,000 | £86,626 |
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 Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Morton Close | £110,995 (2011) | £140,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 66 Morton Close | £114,995 (2009) | £129,950 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.2% |
| 37 Morton Close | £105,995 (2011) | £128,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 57 Morton Close | £149,995 (2011) | £232,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 35 Morton Close | £89,995 (2012) | £97,500 (2024) | +0.7% | -2.2% |
| 5 Morton Close | £94,995 (2010) | £87,500 (2023) | -0.6% | -3.6% |
| 34 Morton Close | £109,995 (2012) | £100,000 (2023) | -0.9% | -3.7% |
| 56 Morton Close | £180,495 (2010) | £255,000 (2022) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| 67 Morton Close | £93,600 (2008) | £97,500 (2022) | +0.3% | -2.3% |
| 18 Morton Close | £180,000 (2012) | £252,000 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| 36 Morton Close | £104,495 (2012) | £105,000 (2021) | +0.1% | -1.8% |
| 23 Morton Close | £84,995 (2012) | £99,950 (2021) | +1.8% | -0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Morton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 61 | 65.6% | £100,000 | £65,000 – £159,995 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 22.6% | £115,000 | £84,995 – £169,995 |
| Detached | 11 | 11.8% | £180,000 | £149,995 – £255,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Morton Close, Seaham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 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 | 93 | 100.0% | £109,245 |
| New build | 49 | 52.7% | £109,995 |
| Existing home | 44 | 47.3% | £100,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.0%. 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 Morton 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 £109,245 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.04% 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 Morton 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 Morton Close, Seaham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Morton Close, Seaham sits below that national figure — -30.6%.
Within Seaham the street ranks 130 of 432 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,950 (+28.6%).
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 £65,000 to £255,000. 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.
Morton 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
- Dawlish Close£94,998 median
- Ilchester Street£27,000 median
- Weymouth Drive£133,000 median
- Derwent Close£75,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 35 Morton Close5 sales
- 40 Morton Close3 sales
- 66 Morton Close3 sales
- 37 Morton Close3 sales
- 5 Morton Close3 sales
- 34 Morton Close3 sales
- 23 Morton Close3 sales
- 57 Morton Close2 sales
- 56 Morton Close2 sales
- 67 Morton Close2 sales
- 18 Morton Close2 sales
- 36 Morton Close2 sales
- 65 Morton Close2 sales
- 12 Morton Close2 sales
- 64 Morton Close2 sales
- 6 Morton Close2 sales
- 33 Morton Close2 sales
- 14 Morton Close2 sales
- 1 Morton Close2 sales
- 58 Morton Close2 sales
- 21 Morton Close2 sales
- 29 Morton Close2 sales
- 41 Morton Close2 sales
- 10 Morton Close2 sales
Back to Seaham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Morton Close, Seaham?
The median price paid in Morton Close, Seaham across every sale on the register is £109,245. 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 Morton Close, Seaham?
93 sales are on record for Morton Close, Seaham, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Morton Close, Seaham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +140.0% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +86.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Morton Close, Seaham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £240,000, 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 Morton Close, Seaham?
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 19 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, “Morton 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.