Lumley Close, Washington house prices are built from 136 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Nov 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £47,750. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved -16.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -44.4%.
Median price paid
£47,750
Change in cash, 2007–2022
-16.6%
Change in real terms
-44.4%
Median per m²
£803
HM Land Registry136 sales59 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Nov 2024
Section 01
How Lumley Close, Washington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lumley Close, Washington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £28,975 | £64,338 |
| 2000s | 8 | £50,750 | £92,452 |
| 2020s | 1 | £65,500 | £66,924 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lumley Close, Washington is £78,500 in 2007; the lowest is £28,250 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £28,250 to £65,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £62,728, so the real change over the whole record is +21.0% — about +0.71% 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: -16.6% in cash against -44.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 29 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £36,950 | £38,880 |
| 28 | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £35,000 | £36,828 |
| 89 | 29 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £63,134 |
| 80 | 1 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £58,000 | £62,667 |
| 131 | 30 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £75,632 |
| 70 | 9 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £75,000 | £81,034 |
| 9 | 4 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £64,828 |
| 52 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £82,256 | £95,301 |
| 23 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £78,500 | £90,949 |
| 87 | 26 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £52,500 | £60,826 |
| 116 | 26 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £52,500 | £60,826 |
| 28 | 22 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £47,000 | £54,454 |
| 48 | 18 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £82,000 | £95,004 |
| 5 | 17 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £97,285 |
| 55 | 21 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £77,000 | £99,697 |
| 77 | 5 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £39,999 | £52,318 |
| 47 | 12 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £64,500 | £84,365 |
| 35 | 23 Feb 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £24,000 | £31,985 |
| 78 | 13 Apr 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £29,000 | £39,469 |
| 86 | 2 Mar 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £83,762 |
| 130 | 11 Sep 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £59,000 | £83,190 |
| 117 | 1 Oct 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £53,000 | £76,022 |
| 80 | 8 Aug 2014 | Flat or maisonette | £55,000 | £78,891 |
| 75 | 6 Dec 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £104,555 |
| 87 | 30 Jul 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £55,500 | £82,897 |
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 Lumley Close, Washington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 Lumley Close | £60,000 (2008) | £36,950 (2024) | -3.0% | -5.8% |
| 28 Lumley Close | £29,000 (2001) | £35,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -1.9% |
| 89 Lumley Close | £43,500 (2002) | £60,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.3% |
| 80 Lumley Close | £36,000 (2002) | £58,000 (2023) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 131 Lumley Close | £32,000 (2000) | £70,000 (2023) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 70 Lumley Close | £39,000 (2002) | £75,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 9 Lumley Close | £26,950 (1996) | £60,000 (2023) | +3.0% | +0.4% |
| 52 Lumley Close | £33,000 (1997) | £82,256 (2022) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| 23 Lumley Close | £35,000 (1995) | £78,500 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 87 Lumley Close | £78,500 (2007) | £52,500 (2022) | -2.6% | -5.2% |
| 116 Lumley Close | £28,500 (1998) | £52,500 (2022) | +2.6% | +0.1% |
| 5 Lumley Close | £83,000 (2006) | £77,000 (2021) | -0.5% | -2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lumley Close, Washington 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 | 117 | 86.0% | £43,500 | £22,630 – £87,000 |
| Terraced | 12 | 8.8% | £62,000 | £28,000 – £95,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 5.1% | £56,200 | £33,000 – £82,256 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lumley Close, Washington
119 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17 freehold — 87.5% 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 £42,500 and the median freehold sale £71,500 — a gap of +68.2%. 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 | 119 | 87.5% | £42,500 |
| Freehold | 17 | 12.5% | £71,500 |
| New build | 1 | 0.7% | £22,630 |
| Existing home | 135 | 99.3% | £48,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.9%. 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 8 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 Lumley Close, Washington
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 £47,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.11% 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 NE38, 165 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 61 violent, 5 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 34 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 0.32 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 Lumley Close, Washington
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.
15 state and independent schools have a NE38 postcode: 11 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,527 |
| Oxclose Community Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,029 |
| Biddick Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,002 |
| Rickleton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 450 |
| John F Kennedy Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 412 |
| Biddick Primary School | Primary | Community school | 285 |
| Fatfield Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 233 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| Wessington Primary School | Primary | Community school | 218 |
| Barmston Village Primary School | Primary | Community school | 206 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| South Hylton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 5.0 km |
| Chester-le-Street Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Pelaw (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 6.7 km |
| Heworth (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 6.8 km |
Section 09
How Lumley Close, Washington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lumley Close, Washington sits below that national figure — -69.7%.
Within Washington the street ranks 538 of 568 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-48.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £803 per square metre, across 59 of the 136 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 £22,630 to £95,000. 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.
Lumley Close, Washington 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
- Fountains Close£98,000 median
- Horsley Road£67,000 median
- Bramhall Drive£420,000 median
- Helvellyn Avenue£96,000 median
- Waskerley Road£61,000 median
- Cairngorm Avenue£88,000 median
- Mitford Close£72,500 median
- Avebury Drive£152,250 median
- Fatfield Park£262,500 median
- Thornbridge£128,500 median
- Burnhope Road£98,300 median
- Kirkham£120,000 median
- Chipchase£113,625 median
- Coquet£96,000 median
- Hogarth Drive£64,000 median
- Hexham£95,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 28 Lumley Close5 sales
- 89 Lumley Close4 sales
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- 87 Lumley Close4 sales
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- 130 Lumley Close4 sales
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- 124 Lumley Close4 sales
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- 76 Lumley Close4 sales
- 77 Lumley Close3 sales
- 131 Lumley Close3 sales
- 23 Lumley Close3 sales
- 52 Lumley Close3 sales
- 5 Lumley Close3 sales
- 117 Lumley Close3 sales
- 75 Lumley Close3 sales
- 31 Lumley Close3 sales
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- 90 Lumley Close3 sales
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Back to Washington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lumley Close, Washington?
The median price paid in Lumley Close, Washington across every sale on the register is £47,750. 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 Lumley Close, Washington?
136 sales are on record for Lumley Close, Washington, the most recent completing on 29 Nov 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lumley Close, Washington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -16.6% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -44.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lumley Close, Washington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £78,500, 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 Lumley Close, Washington?
£803 per square metre, from the 59 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 29 Nov 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, “Lumley Close, Washington 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.