Bircham Street, Stanley house prices are built from 75 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 12 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £38,000. Across the 10 years from 1997 to 2007 the median moved +426.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +331.9%.
Median price paid
£38,000
Change in cash, 1997–2007
+426.7%
Change in real terms
+331.9%
Median per m²
£410
HM Land Registry75 sales20 with floor areaLatest sale 12 May 2026
Section 01
How Bircham Street, Stanley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bircham Street, Stanley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 | 1 | £15,000 | £33,307 |
| 2000s | 4 | £50,000 | £91,085 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bircham Street, Stanley is £79,000 in 2007; the lowest is £15,000 in 1997. Across the full 11-year record the cash median has moved from £15,000 to £79,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £31,805, so the real change over the whole record is +331.9% — about +15.75% 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: +426.7% in cash against +331.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 12 May 2026 | Terraced | £54,000 | £54,000 |
| 21 | 26 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £94,999 | £97,064 |
| 11 | 8 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £23,500 | £24,011 |
| 62 | 9 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £67,000 | £70,500 |
| 6 | 7 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £55,000 | £59,425 |
| 5 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £52,000 | £60,247 |
| 32 | 10 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £55,000 | £63,722 |
| 11 | 29 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £36,000 | £45,484 |
| 4 | 14 May 2021 | Terraced | £52,000 | £65,699 |
| 63 | 6 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £39,995 | £53,301 |
| 32 | 31 May 2017 | Terraced | £38,000 | £51,718 |
| 58 | 18 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £35,000 | £48,861 |
| 23 | 15 Apr 2016 | Terraced | £29,950 | £41,811 |
| 26 | 25 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £22,000 | £30,713 |
| 5 | 11 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £40,000 | £56,400 |
| 30 | 25 Sep 2015 | Terraced | £24,500 | £34,545 |
| 20 | 5 Sep 2014 | Terraced | £33,000 | £47,335 |
| 62 | 30 Nov 2012 | Terraced | £48,000 | £71,695 |
| 5 | 28 Sep 2012 | Terraced | £59,950 | £89,544 |
| 65 | 20 Jul 2012 | Terraced | £52,000 | £77,669 |
| 4 | 15 May 2012 | Terraced | £48,000 | £71,695 |
| 63 | 19 Jan 2011 | Terraced | £49,000 | £75,098 |
| 65 | 10 Dec 2010 | Terraced | £52,000 | £83,035 |
| 55 | 16 Jun 2009 | Flat or maisonette | £30,500 | £50,122 |
| 56 | 26 Mar 2009 | Flat or maisonette | £57,000 | £93,671 |
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 Bircham Street, Stanley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Bircham Street | £37,000 (2000) | £54,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.2% |
| 21 Bircham Street | £9,500 (1997) | £94,999 (2025) | +8.6% | +5.8% |
| 11 Bircham Street | £36,000 (2021) | £23,500 (2025) | -10.1% | -14.8% |
| 62 Bircham Street | £48,000 (2012) | £67,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 6 Bircham Street | £12,000 (1996) | £55,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 5 Bircham Street | £28,500 (2000) | £52,000 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.3% |
| 32 Bircham Street | £92,000 (2008) | £55,000 (2022) | -3.6% | -6.1% |
| 4 Bircham Street | £15,750 (1997) | £52,000 (2021) | +5.1% | +2.9% |
| 26 Bircham Street | £21,500 (2000) | £22,000 (2016) | +0.1% | -2.1% |
| 65 Bircham Street | £52,000 (2010) | £52,000 (2012) | 0.0% | -3.3% |
| 56 Bircham Street | £15,000 (2000) | £57,000 (2009) | +16.0% | +13.5% |
| 3 Bircham Street | £27,000 (1995) | £80,000 (2007) | +9.5% | +7.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bircham Street, Stanley 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 | 65 | 86.7% | £40,000 | £7,000 – £94,999 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 13.3% | £19,500 | £3,000 – £57,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bircham Street, Stanley
9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 66 freehold — 12.0% 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 £28,000 and the median freehold sale £39,998 — a gap of +42.8%. 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 | 9 | 12.0% | £28,000 |
| Freehold | 66 | 88.0% | £39,998 |
A further 22 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 Bircham Street, Stanley
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 £38,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.24% 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 DH9, 266 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 95 violent, 11 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 39 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.51 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 Bircham Street, Stanley
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.
20 state and independent schools have a DH9 postcode: 17 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Durham Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 935 |
| Tanfield School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 739 |
| Tanfield Lea Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 325 |
| Greenland Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 318 |
| Catchgate Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary, Stanley | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Shield Row Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 196 |
| East Stanley School | Primary | Academy converter | 174 |
| Stanley Burnside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 174 |
| Collierley Nursery and Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 147 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 8.7 km |
| Dunston Rail Station | Rail | 10.1 km |
| Metrocentre Rail Station | Rail | 10.4 km |
| Blaydon Rail Station | Rail | 10.8 km |
Section 09
How Bircham Street, Stanley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bircham Street, Stanley sits below that national figure — -75.9%.
Within Stanley the street ranks 504 of 539 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £72,000 (-47.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £410 per square metre, across 20 of the 75 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 £3,000 to £94,999. 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.
Bircham Street, Stanley 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
- Orchard Grove£188,000 median
- John Street£36,000 median
- Mowlam Drive£106,500 median
- Murray Park£185,000 median
- Park Road£50,000 median
- Sheridan Drive£122,000 median
- Kielder Drive£149,950 median
- Wooler Drive£159,973 median
- Poplar Street£30,375 median
- Cloverhill Court£162,500 median
- Elm Street£39,000 median
- Kinross Drive£60,000 median
- Roseberry Street£41,000 median
- Orwell Gardens£98,045 median
- Westfields£69,250 median
- The Hawthorns£112,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Bircham Street6 sales
- 63 Bircham Street5 sales
- 33 Bircham Street5 sales
- 56 Bircham Street4 sales
- 32 Bircham Street3 sales
- 4 Bircham Street3 sales
- 26 Bircham Street3 sales
- 3 Bircham Street3 sales
- 21 Bircham Street2 sales
- 11 Bircham Street2 sales
- 62 Bircham Street2 sales
- 6 Bircham Street2 sales
- 65 Bircham Street2 sales
- 12 Bircham Street2 sales
- 50 Bircham Street2 sales
- 9 Bircham Street2 sales
- 2 Bircham Street2 sales
- 14 Bircham Street2 sales
- 24 Bircham Street2 sales
- 15 Bircham Street2 sales
- 7 Bircham Street2 sales
- 52 Bircham Street2 sales
- 45 Bircham Street2 sales
Back to Stanley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bircham Street, Stanley?
The median price paid in Bircham Street, Stanley across every sale on the register is £38,000. 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 Bircham Street, Stanley?
75 sales are on record for Bircham Street, Stanley, the most recent completing on 12 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bircham Street, Stanley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +426.7% between 1997 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +331.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bircham Street, Stanley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £79,000, 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 Bircham Street, Stanley?
£410 per square metre, from the 20 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 12 May 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, “Bircham Street, Stanley 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.