Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington house prices

Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington house prices are built from 114 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 24 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £119,995. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved -50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -66.7%.

HM Land Registry114 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2005 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington is £129,995 in 2006; the lowest is £60,000 in 2022. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £125,995 to £60,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £229,526, so the real change over the whole record is -69.7% — about -6.79% 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: -50.0% in cash against -66.7% 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.

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.

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 Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

47 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67 freehold — 41.2% 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 £113,995 and the median freehold sale £125,000 — a gap of +9.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +13.6%. 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 17 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.

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.

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 £119,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.87% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Within Ashington the street ranks 133 of 340 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £76,000 (+57.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,647 per square metre, across 37 of the 114 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 £46,000 to £245,000. 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.

Hindmarsh Drive, 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.

Streets nearby

• Sycamore Street£40,000 median
• Chestnut 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 83 Hindmarsh Drive4 sales
• 40 Hindmarsh Drive4 sales
• 51 Hindmarsh Drive4 sales
• 59 Hindmarsh Drive4 sales
• 11 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 38 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 43 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 49 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 35 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 28 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 21 Hindmarsh Drive3 sales
• 10 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 91 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 93 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 25 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 27 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 12 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 24 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 77 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 20 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 42 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 30 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 19 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales
• 44 Hindmarsh Drive2 sales

Back to Ashington house prices.

What is the average house price in Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington?

The median price paid in Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington across every sale on the register is £119,995. 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 Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington?

114 sales are on record for Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington, the most recent completing on 24 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -50.0% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -66.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £129,995, set in 2006. 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 Hindmarsh Drive, Ashington?

£1,647 per square metre, from the 37 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 Feb 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, “Hindmarsh Drive, 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.