Housing in Toft Hill and High Etherley · HM Land Registry
The median home in Toft Hill and High Etherley sells for £126,750
That is the middle of 86 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 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.
56% of Toft Hill and High Etherley’s sales are terraced houses
86 homes sold in three years: 18 detached houses, 20 semi-detached houses and 48 terraced houses.
Detached houses£295K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£385K
Last 12 months
£265K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£162K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£143K–£175K
Last 12 months
£168K6 sold
Terraced houses£107K
median sale · 48 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£120K
Last 12 months
£105K15 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 56% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses56%
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 Toft Hill and High Etherley’s homes sold for between £105K and £175K
One sale in ten was under £80K and one in ten over £300K. 84% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £126,750, sits in the £100–150K band
86 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 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,997 in 1995 to £129,950 in the last 12 months (£94,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
27 sales in the last 12 months, against 70 in 1997, the busiest year, and 18 in 2010. Sales fell by 53% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 22%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 25% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Toft Hill and High Etherley costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Toft Hill and High Etherley, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£60K
£75K
£159K
£183K
£189K
£185K
£265K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£50K
£121K
—
£120K
£138K
£168K
Terraced houses
£33K
£25K
£68K
£61K
£83K
£97K
£105K
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
104 new homes have been sold in Toft Hill and High Etherley since 1995; the share peaked at 44% in 1999.
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 Toft Hill and High Etherley. 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
Toft Hill is Toft Hill and High Etherley’s busiest street, with 20 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Toft Hill
DL14
20
£117,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Lilac Way
DL14
6
£171,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Bankwell Drive
DL14
5
£175,000
Mostly semi-detached 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.
Toft Hill and High Etherley’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: West Auckland, Shildon and Coundon and Leeholme.
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 Toft Hill and High Etherley
What is the average house price in Toft Hill and High Etherley?
The median home in Toft Hill and High Etherley sold for £126,750 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 86 standard sales (£129,950 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £295,000, semi-detached houses £161,500 and terraced houses £107,000.
Are house prices going up in Toft Hill and High Etherley?
The median was £120,000 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£129,250), and £129,950 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 Toft Hill and High Etherley each year?
27 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 34 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.