House prices in SR8 (Peterlee)

This article shows price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand the housing market in SR8 - stats were last calculated on 03 December 2024.

Defining 'SR8'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "SR8", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it SR8, Peterlee. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in SR8 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in October 2024, 20, Clappers Gate, Peterlee, SR8 3BD sold for £120,000. Given the internal area of 73 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £120,000 ÷ 73 sqm = £1,643.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on SR8 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in SR8

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in SR8 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £900 to £1,000, £1,000 to £1,100, £1,100 to £1,200 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 1,298 sales that took place in SR8, in the last 24 months.

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You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in SR8, Peterlee. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £1,280 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of SR8 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for SR8

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Peterlee. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'SR8' as well as the 'SR' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'SR8' is £870.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 1,298 transactions in SR8, Peterlee half were sold for between £550 and £1,280 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 1,298 for SR8, Peterlee.

    • Property price map for Peterlee

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'SR8' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Peterlee
    House price map for Peterlee

    Will SR8 house prices drop in 2025?

    I cannot tell what house prices will do in the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. However we can plot price trends, I have done this in the chart below for SR8 (Peterlee) compared with the wider postcode area 'SR'. You can extrapolate from this based on your own views on future interest rates, inflation and other factors.

    House price index for SR8

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'SR8' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in SR8 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for SR8, Peterlee against those of the broader postcode area 'SR'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire County Durham local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for SR8
    SR area SR8 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 1.6% -1.0% 1.1% -1.5%
    20 yr total 37.7% -18.4% 24.7% -26.1%
    10 yr per annum 1.3% -1.5% 0.3% -2.4%
    10 yr total 13.4% -13.9% 3.3% -21.6%
    5 yr per annum 2.3% -1.7% 3.5% -0.6%
    5 yr total 11.9% -8.4% 18.6% -2.9%
    1 yr per annum -1.2% -5.1% -4.4% -8.2%
    1 yr total -1.2% -5.1% -4.4% -8.2%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, SR area have seen a -1.0% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -18.4% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, SR8 district have seen a -0.6% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -2.9% in real terms.

    Most recent SR8 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Eleventh Street, , SR8 4Q 72 sqm £478 27
    Brougham Court, , SR8 1P 75 sqm £2,060 24
    Fifth Street, , SR8 4L 72 sqm £505 22
    Seventh Street, , SR8 4J 73 sqm £439 20
    Rosedale Terrace, , SR8 4R 75 sqm £1,087 20
    Seventh Street, , SR8 4L 69 sqm £582 18
    Twelfth Street, , SR8 4Q 84 sqm £425 18
    Eighth Street, , SR8 4L 72 sqm £480 17

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'SR8' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'SR8'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    TS28 Wingate £850 sqm £1,420 sqm £2,200 sqm 201
    TS27 Blackhall Colliery £840 sqm £1,460 sqm £2,160 sqm 466
    SR8 Peterlee £550 sqm £870 sqm £1,280 sqm 1,298
    SR7 Seaham £870 sqm £1,300 sqm £1,970 sqm 752
    SR6 Sunderland £1,700 sqm £2,250 sqm £2,850 sqm 762
    SR5 Sunderland £940 sqm £1,280 sqm £1,700 sqm 582
    SR4 Sunderland £1,040 sqm £1,340 sqm £1,780 sqm 1,009
    SR3 Sunderland £1,330 sqm £1,910 sqm £2,430 sqm 882
    SR2 Sunderland £920 sqm £1,380 sqm £1,930 sqm 922
    SR1 Sunderland £660 sqm £830 sqm £1,110 sqm 137

    Raw data

    Our analysis of SR8 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    20, Clappers Gate, £120,000
    Oct-2024
    		 73 1,643
    24, The Coppice, £200,000
    Oct-2024
    		 106 1,886
    53, Balliol Close, £135,000
    Oct-2024
    		 112 1,205

    See the entire list of all sales in SR8 here.

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