That is the middle of 54 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.5 times as much as in 1997. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
54 homes sold in three years: 13 detached houses, 18 semi-detached houses and 23 terraced houses.
Detached houses£290K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£380K
Semi-detached houses£119K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£92K–£140K
Last 12 months
£130K5 sold
Terraced houses£102K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£84K–£128K
Last 12 months
£98K8 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 43% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses24%
Semi-detached houses33%
Terraced houses43%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Burnhope’s homes sold for between £95K and £165K
One sale in ten was under £80K and one in ten over £325K. 87% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £125,000, sits in the £100–150K band
54 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1997
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1997, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £24,500 in 1997 to £110,000 in the last 12 months (£114,300 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
15 sales in the last 12 months, against 60 in 2007, the busiest year, and 11 in 2016. Sales fell by 75% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 18%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Burnhope costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Burnhope, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1997
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Semi-detached houses
£26K
—
—
£56K
£93K
£130K
Terraced houses
—
£69K
£102K
£73K
£100K
£98K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
95 new homes have been sold in Burnhope since 1995; the share peaked at 65% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Burnhope. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Burnhope
What is the average house price in Burnhope?
The median home in Burnhope sold for £125,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 54 standard sales (£110,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £290,000, semi-detached houses £118,750 and terraced houses £102,000.
Are house prices going up in Burnhope?
The median was £127,500 in 2025, up 13% on 2024 (£112,500), and £110,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Burnhope each year?
15 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 20 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0