County Durham
NE38 house prices in County Durham
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£151,500
Range £91,800–£335,300 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 28 Nov 2025 and 20 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in NE38: the typical (median) sold price is £151,500, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). NE38 is an active market, with about 29 recorded sales a month. By property type, 42% were terraced homes (typically £126,000) and 28% were semi-detached homes (typically £175,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 12 most recently sold NE38 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 3 of 10, where 10 is the least deprived.
Source: Deprivation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on NE38: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
Roughly 29 homes a month change hands in NE38, so there is a fair body of evidence, but not enough of it for a trustworthy twelve-month trend.
For sellers, the spread in NE38 is wide, with most sales between £91,800 and £335,300, so the closest sold homes of your type say much more than the middle; roughly 29 sales a month is enough for buyers to compare, so evidence beats optimism.
Sell houseWhen buying here, typical prices in NE38 sit well below the UK average, so ask what is behind the lower prices before you assume a bargain.
Worth checking before you commit: planning history nearby (312 applications on record within 500 m), long-term flood risk and the energy rating (EPC); your conveyancer should look at the title too.
The sold prices leave a lot open; the free NE38 OfferCheck closes some of the gap with flood, crime, planning and council tax.
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At a glance
NE38 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£151,500
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
28.7
Across 250 sales
Freehold sales
91%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in NE38
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in NE38 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £315,500, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £72,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 56 | £315,500 | £235,000–£454,500 |
| Semi-detached | 68 | £175,000 | £125,000–£235,000 |
| Terraced | 103 | £126,000 | £92,200–£175,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 19 | £72,000 | £52,400–£127,000 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 28 Nov 2025 and 20 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in NE38
The quarterly typical price fell 20.6%, from £175,000 in Q4 2025 (47 sales) to £139,000 in Q3 2026 (38 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2025 | £175,000 | 47 |
| Q1 2026 | £158,975 | 78 |
| Q2 2026 | £140,000 | 87 |
| Q3 2026 | £139,000 | 38 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 28 Nov 2025 and 20 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of NE38 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most NE38 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £91,800 and £335,300, around a typical £151,500.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 28 Nov 2025 and 20 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in NE38
Terraced homes were 42% of recorded sales (103 of 246). 91% of sales were freehold and 9% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached23%
- Semi-detached28%
- Terraced42%
- Flat / maisonette8%
Tenure
- Freehold91%
- Leasehold9%
See the figures
228 freehold (91%) and 22 leasehold (9%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in NE38. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 28 Nov 2025 and 20 Aug 2026.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where NE38 sits in County Durham
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in NE38
60, MITFORD CLOSE, WASHINGTON
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 20 Aug 2026
£62,000
9, EDALE CLOSE, WASHINGTON
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£242,000
7, FIELDFARE CLOSE, WASHINGTON
Semi-detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£137,250
4, HAWKHIRST, WASHINGTON
Detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£365,000
2, CEDAR TERRACE, WASHINGTON
Semi-detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£115,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). NE38 includes the North Lodge ward.
In plain English
What the County Durham (NE38) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £315,500 against £72,000 for flats: about 4.4 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £91,800 and £335,300, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (91%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 29 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 28 November 2025 and 20 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on NE38
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in NE38
We don't hold published band charges for County Durham yet. Your billing authority publishes its own band table each year. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency: check a band on GOV.UK.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities
Schools
Schools near NE38
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest Biddick Primary School.
All schools
Biddick Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · NE38 7HQ
282 m
Good · 2019
Biddick Academy
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · NE38 8AL
500 m
Good · 2021
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Washington
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · NE38 8AF
649 m
Good · 2012
Wessington Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · NE38 7PY
770 m
Good · 2013
Columbia Grange School
Academies · NE38 7NY
925 m
Outstanding · 2011
John F Kennedy Primary School
Primary · Academies · NE38 7AR
945 m
Good · 2012
Lambton Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · NE38 0PL
1.0 km
Good · 2019
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Washington
Primary · Academies · NE38 7HU
1.1 km
Good · 2023
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the NE38 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 8 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near NE38
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around NE38
312
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 6 September 2026.
Recent applications
Sunderland/25/02540/FULPermitted
351 m
Single storey extension to the side.
Received 2025-11-03 · decided 2025-12-22
Sunderland/25/02015/FULPermitted
144 m
Erection of 8ft fence with a gate around the boundary of rear garden. (Retrospective)
Received 2025-09-07 · decided 2025-11-19
Sunderland/25/00910/TPAPermitted
210 m
Works to trees - T1 (Sycamore) - Remove, T2 (Cherry) - Crown reduction of up to 30%, T3 (Sycamore) - Pollard of up to 40%
Received 2025-05-07 · decided 2025-07-03
Sunderland/25/00250/FULPermitted
270 m
Erection of single storey kitchen extension to the front with entrance canopy.
Received 2025-02-05 · decided 2025-03-13
Sunderland/25/00104/FULPermitted
302 m
Erection of single storey extension to rear.
Received 2025-01-20 · decided 2025-03-06
Sunderland/24/01620/FULPermitted
291 m
Replacement front porch with tiled roof.
Received 2024-08-12 · decided 2024-10-04
Applications are matched within 500 m of the NE38 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for NE38 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 312 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 6 September 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for NE38
Decile 3 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled NE38 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 1 to decile 10, with a median of decile 3 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
NE38 9BH, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 3 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so NE38 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in NE38: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in NE38 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 243 distinct addresses in the records we hold for NE38. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
60, MITFORD CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 0HB · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£62,000
2026-08-20
9, EDALE CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 8FH · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£242,000
2026-08-14
7, FIELDFARE CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 0DQ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£137,250
2026-08-07
4, HAWKHIRST, WASHINGTON
NE38 8SQ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£365,000
2026-08-07
2, CEDAR TERRACE, WASHINGTON
NE38 9BE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£115,000
2026-08-07
178, ROCHE COURT, WASHINGTON
NE38 7PS · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£130,000
2026-08-06
7, THORNBRIDGE, WASHINGTON
NE38 8TH · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,490
2026-08-04
14, NORTH CRESCENT, WASHINGTON
NE38 9AJ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£171,000
2026-07-31
20, SYCAMORE AVENUE, WASHINGTON
NE38 9BH · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£140,000
2026-07-31
10, SIMONBURN, WASHINGTON
NE38 0NJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£135,000
2026-07-31
13, GRASSLEES, WASHINGTON
NE38 9JA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£350,000
2026-07-31
15, PRINCESS ANNE COURT, WASHINGTON
NE38 7TR · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£260,000
2026-07-30
102, FOUNTAINS CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 7TF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£145,000
2026-07-24
45, KESTREL CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 0EL · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£136,000
2026-07-24
20, WAXWING, WASHINGTON
NE38 0AJ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£300,000
2026-07-24
12, FEATHERSTONE, WASHINGTON
NE38 0ND · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£127,000
2026-07-24
4, CHILLINGHAM CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 8FJ · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£305,000
2026-07-22
122, ROWAN AVENUE, WASHINGTON
NE38 9AQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£138,000
2026-07-20
14, NEWRIGGS, WASHINGTON
NE38 8RL · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£128,000
2026-07-20
10, BREAMISH DRIVE, WASHINGTON
NE38 9HS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£334,250
2026-07-20
6, HOLWICK CLOSE, WASHINGTON
NE38 0QG · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£178,500
2026-07-17
16, FATFIELD PARK, WASHINGTON
NE38 8BN · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£500,000
2026-07-17
26, RICKLETON VILLAGE CENTRE, WASHINGTON
NE38 9ET · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£46,500
2026-07-17
59, HEXHAM, WASHINGTON
NE38 0NS · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,000
2026-07-17
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
Questions, answered
The NE38 report: your questions
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Nearby
Postcode districts near NE38
The closest districts to NE38 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in NE37 (Washington) 1.4 miles
- House prices in DH3 (Chester le Street) 2.2 miles
- House prices in DH4 (Houghton le Spring) 3 miles
- House prices in NE9 (Gateshead) 3.6 miles
- House prices in DH2 (Chester le Street) 3.8 miles
- House prices in NE10 (Gateshead) 3.9 miles
- House prices in SR4 (Sunderland) 4 miles
- House prices in SR5 (Sunderland) 4.5 miles
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Data sources
Every NE38 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.