The Close, Sunderland house prices are built from 131 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 6 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £73,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -3.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -30.4%.
Median price paid
£73,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-3.9%
Change in real terms
-30.4%
HM Land Registry131 salesLatest sale 6 Mar 2026
Section 01
How The Close, Sunderland prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Close, Sunderland house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 3 | £116,000 | £257,575 |
| 2000s | 4 | £48,000 | £87,442 |
| 2010s | 5 | £63,500 | £89,535 |
| 2020s | 3 | £70,000 | £71,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Close, Sunderland is £120,000 in 1999; the lowest is £41,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £116,000 to £61,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £251,631, so the real change over the whole record is -75.2% — about -4.70% 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: -3.9% in cash against -30.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Malvern Court | 6 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £63,500 | £63,500 |
| 27 Malvern Court | 7 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £69,500 | £69,500 |
| 21 Malvern Court | 27 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £52,000 | £53,130 |
| 9 Malvern Court | 14 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £47,000 | £48,022 |
| 39 Malvern Court | 26 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £61,304 |
| 34 Malvern Court | 10 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £62,000 | £63,348 |
| 32 Malvern Court | 22 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £54,000 | £55,174 |
| 17 Malvern Court | 1 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £78,674 |
| 10 Malvern Court | 24 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 20 Malvern Court | 4 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £84,293 |
| 18 Malvern Court | 23 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £84,804 |
| 7 Malvern Court | 10 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £54,500 | £55,685 |
| 5 | 4 Oct 2024 | Detached | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| 10 Malvern Court | 30 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 40 Malvern Court | 23 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £86,810 |
| 25 Malvern Court | 4 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £68,396 |
| 17 Malvern Court | 11 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £89,950 | £94,649 |
| 31 Malvern Court | 13 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £99,963 |
| 19 Malvern Court | 25 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £69,999 | £73,656 |
| 24 | 1 Mar 2024 | Detached | £330,000 | £347,239 |
| 12 Malvern Court | 7 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £81,101 |
| 39 Malvern Court | 7 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £61,000 | £77,070 |
| 17 Malvern Court | 20 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £88,441 |
| 1 | 22 Mar 2021 | Detached | £595,000 | £751,747 |
| 37 Malvern Court | 5 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £98,548 |
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 The Close, Sunderland values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 MALVERN COURT the Close | £42,500 (1998) | £63,500 (2026) | +1.4% | -1.2% |
| 27 MALVERN COURT the Close | £70,000 (2002) | £69,500 (2026) | 0.0% | -2.7% |
| 21 MALVERN COURT the Close | £32,000 (2017) | £52,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +2.5% |
| 9 MALVERN COURT the Close | £38,000 (1998) | £47,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -1.8% |
| 39 MALVERN COURT the Close | £80,000 (2003) | £60,000 (2025) | -1.3% | -4.0% |
| 34 MALVERN COURT the Close | £55,000 (2018) | £62,000 (2025) | +1.7% | -2.1% |
| 32 MALVERN COURT the Close | £38,500 (1998) | £54,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.4% |
| 17 MALVERN COURT the Close | £38,000 (1998) | £77,000 (2025) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 10 MALVERN COURT the Close | £130,000 (2006) | £105,000 (2025) | -1.1% | -4.0% |
| 20 MALVERN COURT the Close | £47,000 (1997) | £82,500 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.6% |
| 18 MALVERN COURT the Close | £73,000 (2014) | £83,000 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.9% |
| 7 MALVERN COURT the Close | £44,250 (1998) | £54,500 (2025) | +0.8% | -1.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Close, Sunderland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 101 | 77.1% | £65,000 | £32,000 – £130,000 |
| Detached | 27 | 20.6% | £230,000 | £47,000 – £595,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 2.3% | £49,500 | £44,000 – £50,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Close, Sunderland
107 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 81.7% 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 £63,500 and the median freehold sale £272,475 — a gap of +329.1%. 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 | 107 | 81.7% | £63,500 |
| Freehold | 24 | 18.3% | £272,475 |
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 The Close, Sunderland
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across South Tyneside, 46.2% of 79,959 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 183 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,961 | 7.5% |
| C | 30,762 | 38.5% |
| D | 34,047 | 42.6% |
| E | 7,676 | 9.6% |
| F | 1,102 | 1.4% |
| G | 228 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in South Tyneside at £731 a month as of Jun 2026 — £512 for a one-bedroom home and £763 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £73,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.02% 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 SR6, 93 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 23 violent, 3 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 24 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.
Against the 147,776 residents the 2021 census counted in South Tyneside, that is 0.63 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 The Close, Sunderland
The 2021 census counted 147,776 residents in South Tyneside across 68,288 households. 57.1% of those households own their home and 42.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a SR6 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitburn Church of England Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,204 |
| Monkwearmouth Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 810 |
| Cleadon Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 484 |
| Fulwell Infant School Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 354 |
| Fulwell Junior School | Primary | Community school | 350 |
| St Benet's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 303 |
| Redby Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 259 |
| Whitburn Village Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 244 |
| Seaburn Dene Primary School | Primary | Community school | 218 |
| Marsden Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Seaburn (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Seaburn Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Seaburn (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 0.8 km |
| Stadium Of Light (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.9 km |
Section 09
How The Close, Sunderland compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Close, Sunderland sits below that national figure — -53.7%.
Within Sunderland the street ranks 1620 of 2283 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-20.7%).
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 £32,000 to £595,000. 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.
The Close, Sunderland sits in South Tyneside, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Tyneside at 5.2 times median local earnings of £31,604 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
- Fulwell Road£83,000 median
- Roker Avenue£92,750 median
- Alston Crescent£139,975 median
- Atkinson Road£110,000 median
- East Boldon Road£177,475 median
- Hartington Street£90,000 median
- Bright Street£87,000 median
- Annie Street£83,725 median
- Laburnum Road£92,975 median
- Bede Street£80,500 median
- Forster Street£88,000 median
- Dykelands Road£159,000 median
- Dovedale Road£153,000 median
- Inverness Street£131,250 median
- Wheatall Drive£118,000 median
- Gladstone Street£70,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 39, MALVERN COURT the Close6 sales
- 10, MALVERN COURT the Close5 sales
- 40, MALVERN COURT the Close5 sales
- 12, MALVERN COURT the Close5 sales
- 33, MALVERN COURT the Close5 sales
- 32, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 17, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 20, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 15, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 8, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 42, MALVERN COURT the Close4 sales
- 14, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 27, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 9, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 18, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 7, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 31, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 19, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 24 the Close3 sales
- 26, MALVERN COURT the Close3 sales
- 8 the Close3 sales
- 21, MALVERN COURT the Close2 sales
- 34, MALVERN COURT the Close2 sales
- 5 the Close2 sales
Back to Sunderland house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Close, Sunderland?
The median price paid in The Close, Sunderland across every sale on the register is £73,000. 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 The Close, Sunderland?
131 sales are on record for The Close, Sunderland, the most recent completing on 6 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Close, Sunderland house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -3.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -30.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Close, Sunderland house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £120,000, set in 1999. 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 The Close, Sunderland?
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 6 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, “The Close, Sunderland 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.