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Ayres Quay market report SR4 8, Sunderland
The SR4 8 (Ayres Quay) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,310 HM Land Registry entries for SR4 8 (Sunderland), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SR4 8 (Sunderland) sold for £160,000 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 43% on five years earlier. The mean was £177,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,910 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,310 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SR4 8 is one sector of SR4 (Sunderland): 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 SR4 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.
The going rate for a home in SR4 8
In the SR4 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £160,000, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £177,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SR4 8
By floor space, homes in SR4 8 have sold for about £1,910 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SR4 8 44% below the national figure.
SR4 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 87 |
| 2024 | £134,900 | £143,426 | 86 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 82 |
| 2022 | £138,000 | £161,821 | 115 |
| 2021 | £112,000 | £141,806 | 109 |
| 2020 | £125,500 | £162,839 | 98 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 103 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 114 |
| 2017 | £119,500 | £162,986 | 106 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 71 |
| 2015 | £108,500 | £153,311 | 72 |
| 2014 | £103,800 | £147,258 | 90 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 91 |
| 2012 | £107,500 | £158,227 | 80 |
| 2011 | £128,500 | £193,986 | 74 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 62 |
| 2009 | £122,500 | £196,920 | 56 |
| 2008 | £113,500 | £186,050 | 81 |
| 2007 | £112,500 | £190,831 | 163 |
| 2006 | £127,700 | £221,671 | 286 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 291 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 259 |
| 2003 | £91,500 | £168,565 | 146 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 85 |
| 2001 | £41,800 | £80,358 | 81 |
| 2000 | £41,500 | £81,444 | 80 |
| 1999 | £54,500 | £108,616 | 72 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 73 |
| 1997 | £49,800 | £102,130 | 66 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 53 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 50 |
In cash terms the typical SR4 8 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 58%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2004; the current median sits about 41% below that. Someone who bought at the 2004 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SR4 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 (+83.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−24.7%). 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) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.4% | +2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.6% |
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 SR4 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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in SR4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 174 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around SR4 8
The local authority for SR4 8 is Sunderland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £701 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £519 a month here against £1,073 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Sunderland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £701 a month is £8,412 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
The shape of the SR4 8 market
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SR4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the SR4 district median, SR4 8 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
SR4 8 (Ayres Quay): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SR4 8 (Ayres Quay)?
Is SR4 8 (Ayres Quay) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SR4 8 (Ayres Quay)?
Where do SR4 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 43% over five years in cash and up 13% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SR4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 46 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SR4 district, not just SR4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Westfield Grove, High Barnes, Sunderland
- St. Marks Road, Millfield, Sunderland
- Gilbert Square, Grindon
"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 SR4 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SR: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SR area. 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 | — | £199,972 | £270,000 (+35%) | £414,995 (+54%) | £527,500 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £115,000 | £134,995 (+17%) | £184,500 (+37%) | £265,000 (+44%) | £382,500 (+44%) |
| Terraced | £87,000 | £88,000 (+1%) | £110,000 (+25%) | £160,000 (+45%) | £235,000 (+47%) |
| Flat | £69,000 | £90,000 (+30%) | £162,500 (+81%) | — | — |
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 SR area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SR area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SR4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SR4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR4 0 | £133,000 | 33 |
| SR4 6 | £110,800 | 40 |
| SR4 7 | £139,800 | 46 |
| SR4 9 | £177,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full SR4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SR4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SR4 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 SR4 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SR4 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SR4 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SR4 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SR4 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SR4 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.