Unity Terrace, Stanley house prices are built from 73 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 15 Mar 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £50,000. Across the 16 years from 2005 to 2021 the median moved -20.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -45.2%.
Median price paid
£50,000
Change in cash, 2005–2021
-20.9%
Change in real terms
-45.2%
Median per m²
£618
HM Land Registry73 sales16 with floor areaLatest sale 15 Mar 2024
Section 01
How Unity Terrace, Stanley prices moved
The chart tracks the median Unity Terrace, Stanley house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £51,000 | £92,907 |
| 2020s | 1 | £50,000 | £51,087 |
The highest yearly median on record for Unity Terrace, Stanley is £63,250 in 2005; the lowest is £29,500 in 2003. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £29,500 to £50,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £55,757, so the real change over the whole record is +13.3% — about +0.70% 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: -20.9% in cash against -45.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £80,000 | £84,179 |
| 3 | 16 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £62,000 | £66,989 |
| 7 | 2 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £95,000 | £102,644 |
| 11 | 22 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £65,000 | £75,308 |
| 26 | 14 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £67,500 | £78,205 |
| 8 | 6 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £75,000 | £94,758 |
| 13 | 29 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £38,000 | £48,011 |
| 26 | 26 May 2021 | Terraced | £45,900 | £57,992 |
| 2 | 30 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £94,500 | £119,395 |
| 15 | 8 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £50,000 | £63,172 |
| 24 | 9 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £39,000 | £49,274 |
| 7 | 29 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £76,950 | £97,222 |
| 3 | 5 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £70,000 | £90,634 |
| 5 | 21 Oct 2016 | Terraced | £117,000 | £163,337 |
| 12 | 28 Sep 2016 | Terraced | £45,500 | £63,520 |
| 4 | 11 Aug 2016 | Terraced | £39,999 | £55,840 |
| 27 | 13 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £30,555 | £42,656 |
| 32 | 17 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £61,000 | £86,010 |
| 1 | 9 Feb 2015 | Terraced | £56,000 | £78,960 |
| 2 | 3 Oct 2014 | Terraced | £80,000 | £114,751 |
| 31 | 19 Sep 2014 | Terraced | £69,950 | £100,335 |
| 11 | 22 Jun 2012 | Terraced | £52,000 | £77,669 |
| 1 | 25 Nov 2011 | Terraced | £75,000 | £114,946 |
| 3 | 24 Sep 2010 | Terraced | £67,000 | £106,988 |
| 5 | 20 Nov 2009 | Terraced | £75,000 | £123,252 |
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 Unity Terrace, Stanley values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Unity Terrace | £19,000 (1995) | £80,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 3 Unity Terrace | £39,950 (1997) | £62,000 (2023) | +1.7% | -0.9% |
| 7 Unity Terrace | £15,000 (1998) | £95,000 (2023) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 11 Unity Terrace | £24,000 (1998) | £65,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 26 Unity Terrace | £22,950 (1997) | £67,500 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.9% |
| 8 Unity Terrace | £17,000 (2000) | £75,000 (2021) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
| 13 Unity Terrace | £17,000 (2000) | £38,000 (2021) | +3.9% | +1.7% |
| 15 Unity Terrace | £15,000 (1996) | £50,000 (2021) | +4.9% | +2.7% |
| 5 Unity Terrace | £75,000 (2009) | £117,000 (2016) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 12 Unity Terrace | £47,950 (2003) | £45,500 (2016) | -0.4% | -2.7% |
| 4 Unity Terrace | £10,000 (1996) | £39,999 (2016) | +7.2% | +4.8% |
| 1 Unity Terrace | £34,000 (1996) | £56,000 (2015) | +2.7% | +0.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Unity Terrace, 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 | 72 | 98.6% | £50,000 | £9,000 – £131,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.4% | £25,250 | £25,250 – £25,250 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Unity Terrace, Stanley
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 73 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 | 73 | 100.0% | £50,000 |
| New build | 2 | 2.7% | £37,450 |
| Existing home | 71 | 97.3% | £50,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -25.1%. 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 5 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 Unity Terrace, 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 £50,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.38% 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 Unity Terrace, 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 Unity Terrace, Stanley compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Unity Terrace, Stanley sits below that national figure — -68.3%.
Within Stanley the street ranks 416 of 539 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £72,000 (-30.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £618 per square metre, across 16 of the 73 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 £9,000 to £131,000. 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.
Unity Terrace, 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
- 2 Unity Terrace8 sales
- 3 Unity Terrace7 sales
- 1 Unity Terrace6 sales
- 26 Unity Terrace5 sales
- 11 Unity Terrace4 sales
- 8 Unity Terrace4 sales
- 13 Unity Terrace4 sales
- 15 Unity Terrace4 sales
- 7 Unity Terrace3 sales
- 4 Unity Terrace3 sales
- 14 Unity Terrace3 sales
- 16 Unity Terrace3 sales
- 5 Unity Terrace2 sales
- 12 Unity Terrace2 sales
- 9 Unity Terrace2 sales
- 28 Unity Terrace2 sales
- 33 Unity Terrace2 sales
Back to Stanley house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Unity Terrace, Stanley?
The median price paid in Unity Terrace, Stanley across every sale on the register is £50,000. 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 Unity Terrace, Stanley?
73 sales are on record for Unity Terrace, Stanley, the most recent completing on 15 Mar 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Unity Terrace, Stanley house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -20.9% between 2005 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -45.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Unity Terrace, Stanley house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £63,250, set in 2005. 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 Unity Terrace, Stanley?
£618 per square metre, from the 16 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 15 Mar 2024. 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, “Unity Terrace, 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.