Alston house prices are built from 1,012 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +30.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -6.5%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+30.5%
Change in real terms
-6.5%
Median per m²
£1,115
HM Land Registry1,012 sales101 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Alston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Alston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £44,250 | £98,256 |
| 2000s | 10 | £125,000 | £227,713 |
| 2010s | 10 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 7 | £205,000 | £209,457 |
The highest yearly median on record for Alston is £265,000 in 2024; the lowest is £30,250 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £30,250 to £206,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £67,169, so the real change over the whole record is +207.1% — about +3.69% 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: +30.5% in cash against -6.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE ROWANS Potters Loaning | 18 Jun 2026 | Detached | £318,000 | £318,000 |
| Rosedale House | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 2 Moredun House | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| Bramble House | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £605,000 | £605,000 |
| STEELE HOUSE Townhead | 29 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| Thornleigh | 22 Apr 2026 | Detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 19 Low Byer Park | 25 Mar 2026 | Detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 22 Church Road | 25 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £138,000 | £138,000 |
| OLD FORGE the Butts | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £177,500 | £177,500 |
| COBBLES END COTTAGE Front Street | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £90,000 | £90,000 |
| BASEMENT FLAT KATES YARD Front Street | 22 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £76,500 | £78,163 |
| Thorneycroft | 19 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| Woodbine Cottage | 19 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 1 Sunnyside | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 1 Old Sheep Wash Barn | 8 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| CROSSWAYS Park Lane | 27 Nov 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| Crookbank Cottage | 3 Nov 2025 | Detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 2 Sunnyside | 1 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| Blagill House | 26 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 3 Valley View | 25 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| Kenlysha Cottage | 18 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £90,000 | £91,957 |
| 1 Moredun House | 17 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| Ashgillside Farm Cottage | 11 Sep 2025 | Detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| Corner Cottage | 8 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 4 Overburn | 30 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £75,000 | £76,630 |
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 Alston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE ROWANS Potters Loaning | £210,000 (2006) | £318,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| STEELE HOUSE Townhead | £66,000 (1998) | £100,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.1% |
| 19 Low Byer Park | £248,000 (2011) | £340,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 22 Church Road | £45,079 (2001) | £138,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| OLD FORGE the Butts | £130,000 (2006) | £177,500 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| COBBLES END COTTAGE Front Street | £50,000 (1995) | £90,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -0.7% |
| BASEMENT FLAT KATES YARD Front Street | £24,950 (2000) | £76,500 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 2 Sunnyside | £175,000 (2023) | £225,000 (2025) | +13.4% | +10.3% |
| 3 Valley View | £85,000 (2005) | £110,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| ELMFIELD HOUSE Front Street | £55,000 (2024) | £70,000 (2025) | +27.3% | +23.6% |
| VALE VIEW Townhead | £100,000 (2008) | £121,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| BIRCH TREE HOUSE the Butts | £56,000 (2002) | £152,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Alston 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 | 371 | 36.7% | £200,000 | £10,500 – £725,000 |
| Terraced | 342 | 33.8% | £97,000 | £1,750 – £365,000 |
| Semi-detached | 241 | 23.8% | £117,000 | £10,000 – £605,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 58 | 5.7% | £50,000 | £11,999 – £159,950 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Alston
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 289 certificates cover Alston, and their median floor area is 105 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +38.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 105 m² | about 1,130 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 79 m² | about 850 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 150 m² | about 1,615 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 10.7% | 31 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 25.3% | 73 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Alston
369 of the sales on record are leasehold and 643 freehold — 36.5% 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 £95,000 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +47.4%. 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 | 369 | 36.5% | £95,000 |
| Freehold | 643 | 63.5% | £140,000 |
| New build | 12 | 1.2% | £88,750 |
| Existing home | 1,000 | 98.8% | £125,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -29.0%. 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 129 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 09
How Alston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Alston sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,115 per square metre, across 101 of the 1,012 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 £1,750 to £725,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Alston
- Front Street60 sales
- The Butts41 sales
- Bruntley Meadows31 sales
- Brampton Road25 sales
- Hillersdon Terrace25 sales
- Low Byer Park24 sales
- The Firs24 sales
- Townhead22 sales
- Townfoot20 sales
- Church Road19 sales
- Hill Top Cottages18 sales
- Station Road17 sales
- Park Lane16 sales
- Middle Park15 sales
- Nenthead Road15 sales
- Garrigill Road14 sales
- Overburn14 sales
- Chapel Terrace12 sales
- Kings Arms Lane11 sales
- The Row11 sales
- Market Place10 sales
- Fairhill Cottages9 sales
- Gilmore Close9 sales
- Overwater9 sales
- Clitheroe8 sales
- Kates Lane7 sales
- Nunnery Hill Way7 sales
- Potters Loaning7 sales
- Jollybeard Gate6 sales
- Park View Lane6 sales
- Valley View6 sales
- Vicarage Terrace6 sales
- High Beldy Cottages5 sales
- School Terrace5 sales
- Smeaton Place5 sales
- The Green5 sales
- Wardway5 sales
Postcode districts covering Alston
- CA9£125,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Alston?
The median price paid in Alston across every sale on the register is £125,000. 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 Alston?
1,012 sales are on record for Alston, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Alston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -6.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Alston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £265,000, set in 2024. 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 Alston?
£1,115 per square metre, from the 101 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 18 Jun 2026. 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, “Alston 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.