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Ayres Quay market report SR4, Sunderland
The SR4 (Ayres Quay) 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: 17,780 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SR4 (Sunderland) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SR4 (Sunderland) is £138,000, from 173 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £151,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 17,780 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district SR4 covering Ayres Quay, Barnes, Chester Road sits in Sunderland. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SR4 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.
SR4 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 173 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SR4 home went for £138,000. The mean is £151,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SR4
A square metre of SR4 home has cost about £1,610 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SR4 52% below the country at large.
SR4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £138,000 | £138,000 | 173 |
| 2025 | £137,000 | £140,276 | 436 |
| 2024 | £127,500 | £135,559 | 447 |
| 2023 | £124,000 | £136,246 | 406 |
| 2022 | £120,000 | £140,714 | 561 |
| 2021 | £116,000 | £146,871 | 582 |
| 2020 | £112,000 | £145,322 | 424 |
| 2019 | £109,000 | £142,873 | 496 |
| 2018 | £105,000 | £139,967 | 530 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 443 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 453 |
| 2015 | £100,000 | £141,300 | 461 |
| 2014 | £100,000 | £141,867 | 481 |
| 2013 | £101,500 | £146,048 | 446 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 363 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 326 |
| 2010 | £95,000 | £148,984 | 347 |
| 2009 | £95,800 | £153,999 | 302 |
| 2008 | £100,000 | £163,921 | 462 |
| 2007 | £104,000 | £176,413 | 956 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 1,060 |
| 2005 | £98,400 | £175,112 | 940 |
| 2004 | £88,700 | £161,097 | 977 |
| 2003 | £63,500 | £116,982 | 879 |
| 2002 | £49,500 | £93,134 | 841 |
| 2001 | £42,500 | £81,704 | 761 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 638 |
| 1999 | £38,000 | £75,732 | 575 |
| 1998 | £37,000 | £74,687 | 544 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 536 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 484 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 450 |
In cash terms the typical SR4 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £138,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 81%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SR4 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 2004 (+39.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−5.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £236,000 against £76,200 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SR4
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 | £246,000 | 18 | 1,426 |
| Semi-detached | £141,200 | 78 | 6,440 |
| Terraced | £121,500 | 74 | 9,247 |
| Flats | £76,200 (2025) | – | 664 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SR4 recorded 368 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 882 sales a year before the financial crisis and 405 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.
The rental side of SR4
The local authority for SR4 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.
Against the £138,000 median purchase price, a rent of £701 a month (£8,412 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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 SR4 (Ayres Quay)
Are property prices falling in SR4 (Ayres Quay)?
Is SR4 (Ayres Quay) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SR4 (Ayres Quay)?
Are SR4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
SR4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SR4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 46 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the SR4 median sold price.
18% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Westfield Grove, High Barnes, Sunderland
- St. Marks Road, Millfield, Sunderland
- Gilbert Square, Grindon
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SR prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SR 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
SR4 ranks 2 of 8 in the SR 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.
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.
Inside SR4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SR4 0 | £133,000 | 33 |
| SR4 6 | £110,800 | 40 |
| SR4 7 | £139,800 | 46 |
| SR4 8 | £160,000 | 28 |
| SR4 9 | £177,500 | 26 |
How SR4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SR area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SR6 | £214,800 | +2% |
| SR3 | £175,000 | -1% |
| SR2 | £145,000 | -3% |
| SR4 (this report) | £138,000 | +19% |
| SR5 | £130,000 | +24% |
| SR7 | £126,000 | +1% |
| SR8 | £93,000 | +13% |
| SR1 | £50,000 | -22% |
Thinking of selling in SR4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SR4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SR4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SR4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SR4.
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The live map plots every individual SR4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.