That is the middle of 135 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 3.7 times as much as in 1995. 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.
Half of Esh Winning’s sales are semi-detached houses
135 homes sold in three years: 24 detached houses, 66 semi-detached houses and 45 terraced houses.
Detached houses£212K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£162K–£240K
Last 12 months
£215K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£105K
median sale · 66 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£147K
Last 12 months
£125K25 sold
Terraced houses£90K
median sale · 45 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£68K–£129K
Last 12 months
£98K17 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 49% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses49%
Terraced houses33%
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 Esh Winning’s homes sold for between £85K and £160K
One sale in ten was under £65K and one in ten over £220K. 97% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £116,000, sits in the £100–150K band
135 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 3.7 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £37,750 in 1995 to £139,950 in the last 12 months (£90,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
53 sales in the last 12 months, against 102 in 2002, the busiest year, and 26 in 2009. Sales fell by 69% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Esh Winning costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Esh Winning, 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 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£84K
£67K
£215K
—
£180K
£208K
£215K
Semi-detached houses
£34K
£33K
£89K
£78K
£65K
£77K
£125K
Terraced houses
£24K
£30K
£77K
£76K
£62K
£55K
£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
88 new homes have been sold in Esh Winning since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.7% sold leasehold in Esh Winning. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Coppice Hill is Esh Winning’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Coppice Hill
DH7
9
£158,000
Mostly detached houses
2
Newhouse Avenue
DH7
9
£150,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Durham Road
DH7
6
£101,500
Mostly terraced houses
4
Priestburn Close
DH7
5
£170,000
Mixed
5
College View
DH7
5
£125,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Deerness Grove
DH7
5
£98,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Burnside
DH7
5
£75,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across County Durham
Esh Winning is the 36th most expensive of 52 towns in County Durham
Esh Winning is in the middle of County Durham’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Esh Winning
What is the average house price in Esh Winning?
The median home in Esh Winning sold for £116,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 135 standard sales (£139,950 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £212,000, semi-detached houses £105,000 and terraced houses £90,000.
Are house prices going up in Esh Winning?
The median was £116,000 in 2025, up 22% on 2024 (£95,000), and £139,950 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 Esh Winning each year?
53 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 46 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Esh Winning expensive for County Durham?
Esh Winning is the 36th most expensive of 52 towns of 2,500 or more in County Durham by median sale price.
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.