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Ashington market report NE63 8
The NE63 8 (Ashington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,631 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE63 8 (Ashington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NE63 8 (Ashington) is £165,000, from 49 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £178,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,730 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,631 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NE63 8 is one sector of NE63 (Ashington): 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 NE63 8 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.
What buyers actually paid in NE63 8
Take the 49 registered 2026 sales in NE63 8 and the middle price, the median, is £165,000. The mean lands at £178,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in NE63 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NE63 8 sales average about £1,730 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NE63 8 42% below the country at large.
The price of a typical NE63 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £165,000 | £165,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £152,500 | £156,147 | 127 |
| 2024 | £130,500 | £138,748 | 122 |
| 2023 | £145,000 | £159,320 | 93 |
| 2022 | £138,500 | £162,407 | 142 |
| 2021 | £130,000 | £164,597 | 170 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 106 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 151 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 136 |
| 2017 | £138,500 | £188,900 | 134 |
| 2016 | £122,500 | £171,379 | 144 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 156 |
| 2014 | £118,000 | £167,404 | 128 |
| 2013 | £115,800 | £166,625 | 124 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 113 |
| 2011 | £119,000 | £179,644 | 112 |
| 2010 | £118,000 | £185,054 | 102 |
| 2009 | £109,500 | £176,022 | 90 |
| 2008 | £130,600 | £214,081 | 94 |
| 2007 | £115,800 | £196,429 | 189 |
| 2006 | £122,000 | £211,776 | 194 |
| 2005 | £114,400 | £203,586 | 155 |
| 2004 | £101,900 | £185,070 | 210 |
| 2003 | £96,200 | £177,224 | 207 |
| 2002 | £66,500 | £125,119 | 171 |
| 2001 | £65,500 | £125,920 | 283 |
| 2000 | £67,600 | £132,665 | 246 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 167 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 112 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 118 |
| 1996 | £49,200 | £103,761 | 146 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical NE63 8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £165,000 in 2026, roughly 3.1 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 43%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE63 8 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 2003 (+44.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NE63 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.2% | +5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in NE63 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 49 NE63 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 107 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 NE63 8 is
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within NE63, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around NE63 8
For renting purposes NE63 8 sits in Northumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £679 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £483 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,107, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £165,000 median purchase price, a rent of £679 a month (£8,148 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about NE63 8 (Ashington)
Are property prices falling in NE63 8 (Ashington)?
Is NE63 8 (Ashington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE63 8 (Ashington)?
Will NE63 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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 is for sale in NE63 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 5 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE63 district, not just NE63 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Albatross Way, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63, Northumberland
- Albatross Way, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63, Northumberland
"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 NE63 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in NE: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NE63
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE63, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE63 0 | £115,000 | 43 |
| NE63 9 | £166,200 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full NE63 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE63 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NE63 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE63 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE63 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE63 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working NE63 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NE63 8.
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Two maps carry on from here: every NE63 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.