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Hartford Bridge market report NE22 7, Bedlington
The standing NE22 7 (Hartford Bridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,579 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in NE22 7 (Bedlington) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 10 registered 2026 sales put the NE22 7 (Bedlington) median at £166,200, up 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £169,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,579 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NE22 7 is one sector of NE22 (Bedlington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NE22 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in NE22 7
10 sales were registered in NE22 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £166,200. The mean works out at £169,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in NE22 7
The last five years of sales put NE22 7 at roughly £2,020 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE22 7 trades 42% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NE22 7 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £166,200 | £166,200 | 10 |
| 2025 | £153,000 | £156,659 | 53 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 54 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 54 |
| 2022 | £164,400 | £192,778 | 62 |
| 2021 | £135,000 | £170,927 | 51 |
| 2020 | £174,500 | £226,417 | 50 |
| 2019 | £90,000 | £117,968 | 44 |
| 2018 | £88,500 | £117,972 | 28 |
| 2017 | £88,000 | £120,023 | 47 |
| 2016 | £105,000 | £146,896 | 53 |
| 2015 | £143,000 | £202,059 | 27 |
| 2014 | £114,500 | £162,438 | 40 |
| 2013 | £72,200 | £103,889 | 34 |
| 2012 | £75,000 | £110,391 | 28 |
| 2011 | £74,000 | £111,712 | 22 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 31 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 25 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 40 |
| 2007 | £123,000 | £208,642 | 87 |
| 2006 | £95,800 | £166,297 | 92 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 69 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 69 |
| 2003 | £60,000 | £110,535 | 76 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 58 |
| 2001 | £44,500 | £85,549 | 59 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 56 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 47 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 35 |
| 1997 | £43,500 | £89,210 | 54 |
| 1996 | £48,200 | £101,652 | 66 |
| 1995 | £50,400 | £109,562 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical NE22 7 home went from £50,400 in 1995 to £166,200 in 2026, roughly 3.3 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 52%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE22 7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2020 (+93.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−26.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.6% | +6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in NE22 7
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
NE22 7 recorded 10 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 71 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market NE22 7 is
Only 10 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NE22 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the NE22 district median, NE22 7 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around NE22 7
For renting purposes NE22 7 sits in Northumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £679 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,107 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£679 a month is £8,148 a year, which against the £166,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about NE22 7 (Hartford Bridge)
How much did a house sell for in NE22 7 (Hartford Bridge)?
Are property prices falling in NE22 7 (Hartford Bridge)?
Is NE22 7 (Hartford Bridge) a good place to buy a house?
Will NE22 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in NE22 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE22 district, not just NE22 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every NE22 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NE area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £239,250 | £322,500 (+35%) | £498,100 (+54%) | £700,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £157,000 | £168,000 (+7%) | £216,000 (+29%) | £335,000 (+55%) | £521,000 (+56%) |
| Terraced | £127,500 | £136,000 (+7%) | £170,000 (+25%) | £282,250 (+66%) | £393,500 (+39%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £127,980 (+35%) | £190,000 (+48%) | £340,000 (+79%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
NE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NE22
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE22, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE22 5 | £147,500 | 29 |
| NE22 6 | £235,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full NE22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE22 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NE22 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NE22 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the NE22 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NE22 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE22 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NE22 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NE22 7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.