House prices in 'SR8 2', Peterlee

Price per square metre data and charts revealed. Latest statistics for the housing market in 'SR8 2' (Peterlee) - calculated on 01 December 2025.

Defining 'SR8 2'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "SR8 2", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it SR8 2, 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 2 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 2025, 60, Cotswold Place, Peterlee, SR8 2PE sold for £100,500. Given the internal area of 90 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £100,500 ÷ 90 sqm = £1,116.

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 2 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 'SR8 2' vs 'SR8'

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in SR8 2 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £1,450 to £1,500, £1,500 to £1,550, £1,550 to £1,600 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 178 sales that took place in SR8 2, Peterlee in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

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 2, Peterlee. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £1,320 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of SR8 2 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for SR8 2

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 2' as well as the 'SR8' postcode district.

  • 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 2' is £1,000.
  • 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 178 transactions in SR8 2, Peterlee half were sold for between £820 and £1,320 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; 178 for SR8 2, Peterlee.

    • Property price map for Peterlee

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'SR8 2' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Peterlee
    House price map for Peterlee

    Peterlee house price forecasting

    House prices in SR8 2 grew 10.5% in the last year, 6.4% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in SR8 2 (Peterlee) compared with the wider postcode district of SR8.

    House price index for SR8 2

    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 2' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in SR8 2 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for SR8 2,Peterlee with the wider postcode district of SR8 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 2
    SR8 2 sector SR8 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 0.8% -1.9% 1.0% -1.7%
    20 yr total 17.1% -32.1% 22.3% -29.1%
    10 yr per annum 2.5% -0.6% 2.1% -1.0%
    10 yr total 28.3% -5.8% 23.6% -9.2%
    5 yr per annum 4.7% 0.2% 5.7% 1.1%
    5 yr total 26.0% 1.0% 31.9% 5.8%
    1 yr per annum 10.5% 6.4% 19.0% 14.5%
    1 yr total 10.5% 6.4% 19.0% 14.5%

    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, SR8 district have seen a -1.7% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -29.1% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, SR8 2 sector have seen a 0.2% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 1.0% in real terms.

    Most recent SR8 2 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
    Basingstoke Road, Peterlee, SR8 2A 77 sqm £989 12
    Beverley Way, Peterlee, SR8 2A 97 sqm £1,564 10
    Kent Walk, Peterlee, SR8 2B 83 sqm £956 10
    Cheviot Place, Peterlee, SR8 2P 92 sqm £898 9
    Cleveland Place, Peterlee, SR8 2P 89 sqm £907 9
    Barsloan Grove, Peterlee, SR8 2P 66 sqm £1,783 9
    St Leonards Close, Peterlee, SR8 2N 88 sqm £1,010 9
    Gloucester Place, Peterlee, SR8 2H 88 sqm £924 9

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'SR8 2' compares to the other postcode sectors in SR8.

    Sector Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    TS28 5 Wingate £860 sqm £1,420 sqm £2,190 sqm 224
    TS27 4 Blackhall Colliery £610 sqm £1,060 sqm £1,630 sqm 317
    SR8 5 Peterlee £840 sqm £1,020 sqm £1,330 sqm 205
    SR8 4 Horden £410 sqm £560 sqm £1,010 sqm 381
    SR8 3 Peterlee £530 sqm £790 sqm £1,350 sqm 419
    SR8 2 Peterlee £820 sqm £1,000 sqm £1,320 sqm 178
    SR8 1 Peterlee £1,300 sqm £1,880 sqm £2,530 sqm 110
    DH6 2 Shotton Colliery £810 sqm £1,190 sqm £1,710 sqm 286

    Raw data

    Our analysis of SR8 2 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
    60, Cotswold Pl, Peterlee £100,500
    Oct-2025
    		 90 1,116
    18, Willerby Grove, Peterlee £133,000
    Oct-2025
    		 62 2,145
    13, Hertford Pl, Peterlee £50,000
    Sep-2025
    		 76 657

    See the entire list of all sales in SR8 2 here.

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