Sold Price History


SR7 9 house prices

SR7 9 house prices are built from 2,933 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £72,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.3%.

Median price paid

£72,000

Change in cash, 2016–2026

+36.3%

Change in real terms

-2.3%

Median per m²

£727

HM Land Registry2,933 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

Section 01

How SR7 9 prices moved

The chart tracks the median SR7 9 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

SR7 9 house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2026
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£26,500£58,843
2000s10£55,000£100,194
2010s10£80,000£112,800
2020s7£96,000£98,087
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for SR7 9 is £109,950 in 2007; the lowest is £24,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £24,000 to £97,475.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £53,291, so the real change over the whole record is +82.9% — about +1.97% 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: +36.3% in cash against -2.3% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
40 Morton Close19 Jun 2026Terraced£140,000£140,000
7 Fife Street12 Jun 2026Terraced£83,500£83,500
22 Station Estate South11 Jun 2026Semi-detached£120,000£120,000
9 Grasmere Terrace11 Jun 2026Semi-detached£110,000£110,000
39 Matthews Road8 Jun 2026Terraced£80,000£80,000
13A Brooklyn Terrace North22 May 2026Terraced£123,000£123,000
59 Metcalf Crescent18 May 2026Semi-detached£80,000£80,000
21 Melrose Avenue1 May 2026Terraced£146,000£146,000
18 Glebe View30 Apr 2026Terraced£100,000£100,000
20 Church Lane29 Apr 2026Semi-detached£195,000£195,000
6 Station Road North24 Apr 2026Terraced£99,950£99,950
17 Dalby Grove8 Apr 2026Terraced£170,000£170,000
2 Windsor Terrace South23 Mar 2026Terraced£83,000£83,000
29 Dreswick Court10 Mar 2026Flat or maisonette£72,000£72,000
1 Denewood5 Mar 2026Terraced£120,000£120,000
12 Lumsden Square27 Feb 2026Semi-detached£185,000£185,000
28 Station Estate North27 Feb 2026Semi-detached£95,000£95,000
4 James Street South20 Feb 2026Terraced£61,753£61,753
49 Douglas Way30 Jan 2026Terraced£152,500£152,500
25 Ripon Terrace30 Jan 2026Semi-detached£95,000£95,000
61 Short Grove28 Jan 2026Semi-detached£82,000£82,000
5 Windsor Terrace South16 Jan 2026Terraced£39,500£39,500
7 Porter Terrace15 Jan 2026Semi-detached£128,999£128,999
1 West Avenue9 Jan 2026Terraced£46,000£46,000
74 Station Estate North8 Jan 2026Semi-detached£100,000£100,000
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 SR7 9 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
40 Morton Close£110,995 (2011)£140,000 (2026)+1.6%-1.3%
7 Fife Street£70,000 (2021)£83,500 (2026)+3.6%-1.1%
22 Station Estate South£57,500 (2014)£120,000 (2026)+6.3%+3.2%
39 Matthews Road£19,000 (2002)£80,000 (2026)+6.2%+3.3%
13A Brooklyn Terrace North£49,950 (2004)£123,000 (2026)+4.2%+1.3%
59 Metcalf Crescent£20,000 (2001)£80,000 (2026)+5.7%+2.9%
21 Melrose Avenue£36,000 (1999)£146,000 (2026)+5.3%+2.6%
20 Church Lane£162,500 (2020)£195,000 (2026)+3.1%-1.3%
6 Station Road North£50,000 (2015)£99,950 (2026)+6.5%+3.2%
17 Dalby Grove£187,995 (2007)£170,000 (2026)-0.5%-3.4%
2 Windsor Terrace South£25,500 (2002)£83,000 (2026)+5.0%+2.2%
29 Dreswick Court£69,995 (2012)£72,000 (2026)+0.2%-2.6%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SR7 9 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced1,58454.0%£57,000£2,850 – £285,000
Semi-detached89330.4%£80,000£1,500 – £400,000
Detached33411.4%£178,500£14,000 – £575,000
Flat or maisonette1224.2%£75,000£5,000 – £124,700
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 05

How big homes are in SR7 9

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,490 certificates cover SR7 9, and their median floor area is 67 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -11.8%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

MeasureFloor areaSample
Median floor area67 m²about 721 sq ft
Smaller quarter, up to57 m²about 614 sq ft
Larger quarter, from81 m²about 872 sq ft
Under 60 m²28.3%422 homes
150 m² and over1.7%25 homes
EPC certificates inspected between 7 Dec 2021 and 2 Jul 2026.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in SR7 9

175 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,758 freehold — 6.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £71,250 and the median freehold sale £72,000 — a gap of +1.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold1756.0%£71,250
Freehold2,75894.0%£72,000
New build33511.4%£138,000
Existing home2,59888.6%£65,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +112.3%. 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 425 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 SR7 9

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 bandCertificatesShare
A1,9550.6%
B26,3248.5%
C111,77336.2%
D123,57540.0%
E34,30411.1%
F8,1532.6%
G2,6650.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in County Durham.

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 £72,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.68% 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 SR7 9

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Seaham High SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,095
Ribbon SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter514
Seaham Trinity Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school349
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter308
Seaview Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school256
Westlea Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school247
Ropery Walk Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school219
New Seaham AcademyPrimaryAcademy converter216
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, SeahamPrimaryAcademy converter206
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, MurtonPrimaryVoluntary aided school127
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Seaham Rail StationRail1.4 km
Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)Metro or underground8.1 km
Park Lane (Tyne and Wear Metro Station)Metro or underground8.1 km
HordenRail8.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How SR7 9 compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SR7 9 sits below that national figure — -54.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £727 per square metre, across 5 of the 2,933 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 £1,500 to £575,000. 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.

SR7 9 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

Other sectors in SR7

The wider district is SR7.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in SR7 9?

The median price paid in SR7 9 across every sale on the register is £72,000. 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 SR7 9?

2,933 sales are on record for SR7 9, 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 SR7 9 house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were SR7 9 house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £109,950, 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 SR7 9?

£727 per square metre, from the 5 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 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, “SR7 9 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.