Chestnut Street, Ashington house prices are built from 339 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £40,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +5.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -23.0%.
Median price paid
£40,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+5.0%
Change in real terms
-23.0%
Median per m²
£584
HM Land Registry339 sales105 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Sep 2025
Section 01
How Chestnut Street, Ashington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Chestnut Street, Ashington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £18,950 | £42,078 |
| 2000s | 10 | £52,750 | £96,095 |
| 2010s | 7 | £40,000 | £56,400 |
| 2020s | 3 | £50,000 | £51,087 |
The highest yearly median on record for Chestnut Street, Ashington is £70,000 in 2007; the lowest is £16,675 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £19,000 to £42,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £42,189, so the real change over the whole record is +4.8% — about +0.16% 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: +5.0% in cash against -23.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 | 24 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £85,000 | £86,848 |
| 45 | 30 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £37,000 | £37,804 |
| 248 | 16 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £62,000 | £65,239 |
| 215 | 13 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £35,000 | £36,828 |
| 233 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £10,000 | £10,522 |
| 10 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £55,000 | £57,873 |
| 145 | 24 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £32,000 | £33,672 |
| 206 | 17 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £42,000 | £44,194 |
| 178 | 12 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £58,000 | £61,030 |
| 11 | 12 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £32,500 | £34,198 |
| 154 | 29 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £59,500 | £62,608 |
| 197 | 27 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £49,500 | £53,483 |
| 267 | 22 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £52,500 | £56,724 |
| 80 | 15 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £57,500 | £62,126 |
| 55 | 19 May 2023 | Terraced | £45,000 | £48,621 |
| 279 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £57,000 | £66,039 |
| 99 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £56,000 | £64,881 |
| 55 | 9 May 2022 | Terraced | £55,000 | £63,722 |
| 170 | 14 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £52,000 | £60,247 |
| 280 | 3 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £50,000 | £57,929 |
| 93 | 14 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £20,500 | £23,751 |
| 56 | 3 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £47,000 | £59,382 |
| 230 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £40,000 | £50,538 |
| 278 | 19 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £50,000 | £63,172 |
| 41 | 8 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £53,000 | £66,962 |
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 Chestnut Street, Ashington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107 Chestnut Street | £40,000 (2004) | £85,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
| 45 Chestnut Street | £53,000 (2006) | £37,000 (2025) | -1.9% | -4.7% |
| 248 Chestnut Street | £50,000 (2004) | £62,000 (2024) | +1.1% | -1.7% |
| 233 Chestnut Street | £19,300 (1997) | £10,000 (2024) | -2.4% | -4.9% |
| 10 Chestnut Street | £32,500 (2017) | £55,000 (2024) | +7.8% | +3.9% |
| 145 Chestnut Street | £27,000 (2003) | £32,000 (2024) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| 206 Chestnut Street | £34,000 (2012) | £42,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.2% |
| 178 Chestnut Street | £21,500 (2001) | £58,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 11 Chestnut Street | £39,950 (2003) | £32,500 (2024) | -1.0% | -3.7% |
| 154 Chestnut Street | £24,950 (2002) | £59,500 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 267 Chestnut Street | £40,000 (2014) | £52,500 (2023) | +3.1% | -0.1% |
| 80 Chestnut Street | £21,950 (1997) | £57,500 (2023) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chestnut Street, Ashington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 336 | 99.1% | £40,000 | £10,000 – £85,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2 | 0.6% | £49,000 | £49,000 – £67,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.3% | £19,000 | £19,000 – £19,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chestnut Street, Ashington
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 338 freehold — 0.3% 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 £55,000 and the median freehold sale £40,000 — a gap of -27.3%. 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 | 1 | 0.3% | £55,000 |
| Freehold | 338 | 99.7% | £40,000 |
A further 69 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 Chestnut Street, Ashington
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Northumberland, 43.9% of 169,476 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,402 | 0.8% |
| B | 18,509 | 10.9% |
| C | 54,495 | 32.2% |
| D | 58,539 | 34.5% |
| E | 24,590 | 14.5% |
| F | 9,016 | 5.3% |
| G | 2,925 | 1.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Northumberland at £687 a month as of Jun 2026 — £489 for a one-bedroom home and £757 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £40,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.61% 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 NE63, 231 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 84 violent, 14 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 50 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 320,567 residents the 2021 census counted in Northumberland, that is 0.72 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 Chestnut Street, Ashington
The 2021 census counted 320,567 residents in Northumberland across 146,922 households. 65.7% of those households own their home and 34.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a NE63 postcode: 6 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCEA Duke's Secondary School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 980 |
| Ashington Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 964 |
| NCEA Bishop's Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 448 |
| NCEA Thomas Bewick C of E Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 253 |
| St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Ashington | Primary | Academy converter | 238 |
| NCEA James Knott CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 213 |
| Bothal Academy | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Central Academy | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ashington Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Bedlington Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Pegswood Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Blyth Bebside Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
Section 09
How Chestnut Street, Ashington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chestnut Street, Ashington sits below that national figure — -74.6%.
Within Ashington the street ranks 333 of 340 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £76,000 (-47.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £584 per square metre, across 105 of the 339 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 £10,000 to £85,000. 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.
Chestnut Street, Ashington sits in Northumberland, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Northumberland at 5.7 times median local earnings of £35,323 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
- Sycamore Street£40,000 median
- Hawthorn Road£55,000 median
- Milburn Road£57,750 median
- Rosalind Street£50,000 median
- Maple Street£45,000 median
- Woodhorn Road£61,000 median
- Newbiggin Road£79,000 median
- North Seaton Road£60,000 median
- Ariel Street£49,975 median
- Barnston£83,000 median
- Beatrice Street£40,250 median
- Alexandra Road£50,000 median
- Pont Street£46,000 median
- Katherine Street£43,500 median
- Rothbury Drive£163,952 median
- Burnside£85,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 41 Chestnut Street5 sales
- 121 Chestnut Street5 sales
- 82 Chestnut Street5 sales
- 233 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 99 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 225 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 291 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 149 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 177 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 255 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 156 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 65 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 100 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 46 Chestnut Street4 sales
- 45 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 206 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 178 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 154 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 80 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 55 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 279 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 230 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 221 Chestnut Street3 sales
- 127 Chestnut Street3 sales
Back to Ashington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chestnut Street, Ashington?
The median price paid in Chestnut Street, Ashington across every sale on the register is £40,000. 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 Chestnut Street, Ashington?
339 sales are on record for Chestnut Street, Ashington, the most recent completing on 24 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chestnut Street, Ashington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +5.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -23.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chestnut Street, Ashington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £70,000, set in 2007. 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 Chestnut Street, Ashington?
£584 per square metre, from the 105 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 24 Sep 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, “Chestnut Street, Ashington 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.