Merlin Way, Hartlepool house prices are built from 199 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 28 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £194,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +97.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +42.8%.
Median price paid
£194,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+97.0%
Change in real terms
+42.8%
Median per m²
£1,622
HM Land Registry199 sales34 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Merlin Way, Hartlepool prices moved
The chart tracks the median Merlin Way, Hartlepool house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £156,500 | £285,097 |
| 2010s | 9 | £181,750 | £256,268 |
| 2020s | 5 | £225,000 | £229,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Merlin Way, Hartlepool is £256,000 in 2025; the lowest is £109,950 in 2009. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £116,000 to £256,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £223,748, so the real change over the whole record is +16.9% — about +0.68% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +97.0% in cash against +42.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 28 Nov 2025 | Detached | £252,000 | £257,478 |
| 118 | 2 May 2025 | Detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 8 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 10 | 6 Mar 2025 | Detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 12 Blackberry Apartments | 3 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £79,696 |
| 13 | 31 Jan 2025 | Detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 84 | 24 Jul 2024 | Detached | £173,000 | £182,037 |
| 32 | 28 Jun 2024 | Detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 124 | 11 Jun 2024 | Detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 49 | 26 Apr 2024 | Detached | £286,000 | £300,940 |
| 20 | 25 Apr 2024 | Detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 70 | 9 Feb 2024 | Detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 43 | 13 Nov 2023 | Detached | £263,046 | £284,211 |
| 40 | 18 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £143,500 | £155,046 |
| 31 | 28 Jul 2023 | Detached | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 109 | 9 Jun 2023 | Detached | £259,000 | £279,839 |
| 58 | 28 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 24 | 24 Jun 2022 | Detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 101 | 28 Apr 2022 | Detached | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 60 | 11 Apr 2022 | Detached | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 116 | 10 Mar 2022 | Detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 8 Blackberry Apartments | 31 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £78,500 | £90,949 |
| 44 | 18 Jan 2022 | Detached | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 111 | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £238,000 | £300,699 |
| 45 | 10 Nov 2021 | Detached | £221,000 | £279,220 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Merlin Way, Hartlepool values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 Merlin Way | £212,500 (2012) | £252,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| 118 Merlin Way | £250,000 (2008) | £260,000 (2025) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| 8 Merlin Way | £121,500 (2001) | £250,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 Merlin Way | £96,500 (2001) | £270,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 12 BLACKBERRY APARTMENTS Merlin Way | £110,950 (2008) | £78,000 (2025) | -2.1% | -4.9% |
| 13 Merlin Way | £118,000 (2002) | £280,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 84 Merlin Way | £164,950 (2012) | £173,000 (2024) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
| 32 Merlin Way | £162,950 (2014) | £180,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -2.1% |
| 124 Merlin Way | £249,950 (2012) | £270,000 (2024) | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| 49 Merlin Way | £224,000 (2020) | £286,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +0.9% |
| 20 Merlin Way | £230,000 (2013) | £325,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.2% |
| 70 Merlin Way | £196,950 (2018) | £235,000 (2024) | +3.0% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Merlin Way, Hartlepool is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 154 | 77.4% | £209,950 | £35,000 – £325,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 11.6% | £130,000 | £90,000 – £220,950 |
| Flat or maisonette | 21 | 10.6% | £90,000 | £62,500 – £114,950 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.5% | £185,000 | £185,000 – £185,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Merlin Way, Hartlepool
21 of the sales on record are leasehold and 178 freehold — 10.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £90,000 and the median freehold sale £199,950 — a gap of +122.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 21 | 10.6% | £90,000 |
| Freehold | 178 | 89.4% | £199,950 |
| New build | 103 | 51.8% | £170,000 |
| Existing home | 96 | 48.2% | £216,501 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 10 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Merlin Way, Hartlepool
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Hartlepool, 45.6% of 56,840 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 338 | 0.6% |
| B | 6,493 | 11.4% |
| C | 19,068 | 33.5% |
| D | 22,342 | 39.3% |
| E | 6,737 | 11.9% |
| F | 1,401 | 2.5% |
| G | 461 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Hartlepool at £556 a month as of Jun 2026 — £399 for a one-bedroom home and £605 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £194,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 3.42% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of TS26, 640 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 209 violent, 31 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 70 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.8 times busier.
Against the 92,338 residents the 2021 census counted in Hartlepool, that is 6.93 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Merlin Way, Hartlepool
The 2021 census counted 92,338 residents in Hartlepool across 40,929 households. 58.8% of those households own their home and 41.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a TS26 postcode: 5 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Tunstall College of Science | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,399 |
| Eldon Grove Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 496 |
| Throston Primary School | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| West Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 343 |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hartlepool | Primary | Academy converter | 336 |
| Lynnfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 323 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hartlepool Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Seaton Carew Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Horden | Rail | 9.6 km |
| Billingham Rail Station | Rail | 9.7 km |
Section 09
How Merlin Way, Hartlepool compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Merlin Way, Hartlepool sits above that national figure — +23.8%.
Within Hartlepool the street ranks 123 of 1207 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £80,000 (+143.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,622 per square metre, across 34 of the 199 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £35,000 to £325,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Merlin Way, Hartlepool sits in Hartlepool, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Hartlepool at 4.8 times median local earnings of £32,302 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Elwick Road£93,500 median
- Grange Road£95,500 median
- Sheriff Street£31,250 median
- Stephen Street£29,000 median
- Hart Lane£70,350 median
- Everett Street£35,000 median
- Welldeck Road£62,750 median
- Dent Street£29,500 median
- Fieldfare Road£79,950 median
- York Road£48,000 median
- Silverbirch Road£185,100 median
- Wilson Street£41,975 median
- Rodney Street£24,500 median
- Derwent Street£31,000 median
- Belmont Gardens£120,000 median
- Granville Avenue£135,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 118 Merlin Way4 sales
- 13 Merlin Way4 sales
- 31 Merlin Way4 sales
- 102 Merlin Way3 sales
- 10 Merlin Way3 sales
- 84 Merlin Way3 sales
- 32 Merlin Way3 sales
- 124 Merlin Way3 sales
- 20 Merlin Way3 sales
- 24 Merlin Way3 sales
- 45 Merlin Way3 sales
- 37 Merlin Way3 sales
- 94 Merlin Way3 sales
- 7, BLACKBERRY APARTMENTS Merlin Way3 sales
- 42 Merlin Way3 sales
- 106 Merlin Way3 sales
- 1 Merlin Way3 sales
- 19 Merlin Way3 sales
- 8 Merlin Way2 sales
- 12, BLACKBERRY APARTMENTS Merlin Way2 sales
- 49 Merlin Way2 sales
- 70 Merlin Way2 sales
- 43 Merlin Way2 sales
- 40 Merlin Way2 sales
Back to Hartlepool house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Merlin Way, Hartlepool?
The median price paid in Merlin Way, Hartlepool across every sale on the register is £194,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Merlin Way, Hartlepool?
199 sales are on record for Merlin Way, Hartlepool, the most recent completing on 28 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Merlin Way, Hartlepool house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +97.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +42.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Merlin Way, Hartlepool house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £256,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Merlin Way, Hartlepool?
£1,622 per square metre, from the 34 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 28 Nov 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Merlin Way, Hartlepool house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.