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Usworth market report NE37, Washington
The standing NE37 (Usworth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 8,287 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in NE37 (Washington) 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for NE37 (Washington) is £122,200, from 80 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £137,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,287 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NE37 is a postcode district covering Usworth, Sulgrave, Albany in Washington. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NE37 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.
NE37 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for NE37 is £122,200, taken from 80 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £137,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
NE37 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put NE37 at roughly £1,610 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NE37 sits 57% below the national market.
A typical NE37 home, priced year by year (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 | £122,200 | £122,200 | 80 |
| 2025 | £152,000 | £155,635 | 249 |
| 2024 | £118,000 | £125,458 | 211 |
| 2023 | £125,000 | £137,344 | 218 |
| 2022 | £117,000 | £137,196 | 251 |
| 2021 | £120,000 | £151,935 | 248 |
| 2020 | £113,800 | £147,658 | 228 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 199 |
| 2018 | £113,500 | £151,298 | 198 |
| 2017 | £94,000 | £128,207 | 224 |
| 2016 | £102,000 | £142,699 | 175 |
| 2015 | £98,500 | £139,181 | 206 |
| 2014 | £93,500 | £132,646 | 217 |
| 2013 | £97,000 | £139,573 | 192 |
| 2012 | £91,000 | £133,941 | 140 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 165 |
| 2010 | £90,800 | £142,398 | 142 |
| 2009 | £105,000 | £168,788 | 131 |
| 2008 | £105,000 | £172,117 | 166 |
| 2007 | £100,000 | £169,628 | 368 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 342 |
| 2005 | £84,200 | £149,842 | 370 |
| 2004 | £75,000 | £136,215 | 461 |
| 2003 | £67,000 | £123,430 | 467 |
| 2002 | £56,000 | £105,364 | 387 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 297 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 324 |
| 1999 | £47,500 | £94,665 | 395 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 385 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 341 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 247 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 263 |
In cash terms the typical NE37 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £122,200 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 58%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE37 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 1997 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−19.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.6% | −21.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £364,000 against £33,800 for a flat, 10.8 times the price.
Median by property type, NE37
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £364,000 | 8 | 1,028 |
| Semi-detached | £166,500 | 26 | 2,937 |
| Terraced | £114,800 | 26 | 2,672 |
| Flats | £33,800 | 20 | 1,650 |
Sales activity in NE37
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
NE37 recorded 197 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 377 sales a year before the financial crisis and 202 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.
The rental side of NE37
The local authority for NE37 is Sunderland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £701 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £519 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,073, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £122,200 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 6.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the NE37 market
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. In its area's price order NE37 comes 57 of 59, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: NE37 (Usworth)
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Are NE37 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
NE37's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in NE37 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 16 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the NE37 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 44% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every NE37 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.
What another bedroom costs in NE
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
NE37 ranks 45 of 59 in the NE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
NE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NE37, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE37 1 | £165,000 | 39 |
| NE37 2 | £102,500 | 20 |
| NE37 3 | £35,000 | 21 |
How NE37 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE37 itself, which ranks 57 of 59 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NE44 | £692,500 | +57% |
| NE69 | £617,500 | +2% |
| NE45 | £557,500 | +35% |
| NE20 | £472,500 | +8% |
| NE18 | £375,000 | +58% |
| NE67 | £335,000 | +4% |
| NE26 | £330,000 | +17% |
| NE46 | £297,200 | +8% |
| NE3 | £290,000 | +26% |
| NE47 | £290,000 | +18% |
| NE43 | £288,500 | -10% |
| NE30 | £280,000 | +18% |
| NE41 | £267,800 | -1% |
| NE2 | £265,800 | +12% |
| NE19 | £265,000 | +8% |
| NE25 | £260,000 | +18% |
| NE66 | £252,500 | +3% |
| NE65 | £251,500 | +12% |
| NE36 | £247,500 | +15% |
| NE27 | £241,200 | +24% |
| NE61 | £240,000 | +14% |
| NE68 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE70 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE37 (this report) | £122,200 | +2% |
Before you sell in NE37: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE37's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual NE37 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.