Howard Walk, Ashington house prices are built from 63 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2004 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000.
Median price paid
£125,000
Median per m²
£1,732
HM Land Registry63 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Howard Walk, Ashington prices moved
There are too few years of sales in Howard Walk, Ashington to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 22 | 9 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £168,000 | £168,000 |
| 10 | 10 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 5 | 17 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £103,000 | £108,381 |
| 12 | 15 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £91,500 | £98,862 |
| 2 | 23 Sep 2022 | Detached | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 25 | 27 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 18 | 11 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £148,000 | £171,471 |
| 24 | 9 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £80,000 | £104,638 |
| 36 | 4 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £159,924 |
| 17 | 5 Dec 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £108,880 |
| 23 | 19 May 2017 | Semi-detached | £78,500 | £106,839 |
| 32 | 8 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £90,000 | £122,490 |
| 30 | 8 Feb 2017 | Terraced | £86,000 | £117,046 |
| 36 | 23 May 2016 | Semi-detached | £124,950 | £174,435 |
| 38 | 31 Mar 2016 | Detached | £200,000 | £279,208 |
| 6 | 30 Nov 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £86,000 | £121,260 |
| 26 | 5 Oct 2015 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £148,050 |
| 36 | 2 Sep 2013 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £182,265 |
| 36 | 11 Jan 2013 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £167,684 |
| 22 | 28 Aug 2009 | Semi-detached | £103,000 | £169,266 |
| 18 | 9 May 2008 | Semi-detached | £124,250 | £208,563 |
| 22 | 3 Apr 2008 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £226,607 |
| 16 | 7 Nov 2007 | Detached | £240,000 | £417,263 |
| 6 | 11 May 2007 | Semi-detached | £109,950 | £191,158 |
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 Howard Walk, Ashington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Howard Walk | £129,995 (2005) | £170,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| 22 Howard Walk | £129,995 (2005) | £168,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.6% |
| 10 Howard Walk | £122,995 (2004) | £125,000 (2025) | +0.1% | -2.7% |
| 5 Howard Walk | £99,995 (2005) | £103,000 (2024) | +0.2% | -2.7% |
| 12 Howard Walk | £99,995 (2004) | £91,500 (2023) | -0.5% | -3.3% |
| 2 Howard Walk | £217,995 (2004) | £225,000 (2022) | +0.2% | -2.4% |
| 25 Howard Walk | £119,995 (2005) | £115,000 (2022) | -0.2% | -2.9% |
| 24 Howard Walk | £104,995 (2005) | £80,000 (2019) | -1.9% | -4.2% |
| 36 Howard Walk | £134,995 (2005) | £120,000 (2018) | -0.9% | -3.3% |
| 17 Howard Walk | £104,995 (2004) | £80,000 (2017) | -2.1% | -4.4% |
| 23 Howard Walk | £106,995 (2005) | £78,500 (2017) | -2.5% | -4.9% |
| 32 Howard Walk | £134,995 (2005) | £90,000 (2017) | -3.3% | -5.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Howard Walk, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 36 | 57.1% | £125,995 | £78,500 – £170,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 9 | 14.3% | £99,995 | £80,000 – £115,995 |
| Detached | 9 | 14.3% | £225,000 | £122,995 – £249,995 |
| Terraced | 9 | 14.3% | £122,995 | £86,000 – £134,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Howard Walk, Ashington
10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 15.9% 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 £101,498 and the median freehold sale £126,500 — a gap of +24.6%. 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 | 10 | 15.9% | £101,498 |
| Freehold | 53 | 84.1% | £126,500 |
| New build | 32 | 50.8% | £126,995 |
| Existing home | 31 | 49.2% | £120,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +5.8%. 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 3 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 Howard Walk, 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 £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.60% 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 Howard Walk, 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 Howard Walk, Ashington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Howard Walk, Ashington sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Within Ashington the street ranks 121 of 340 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £76,000 (+64.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,732 per square metre, across 18 of the 63 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 £78,500 to £249,995. 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.
Howard Walk, 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
- 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
- 22 Howard Walk5 sales
- 36 Howard Walk5 sales
- 18 Howard Walk4 sales
- 10 Howard Walk3 sales
- 23 Howard Walk3 sales
- 5 Howard Walk2 sales
- 12 Howard Walk2 sales
- 2 Howard Walk2 sales
- 25 Howard Walk2 sales
- 24 Howard Walk2 sales
- 17 Howard Walk2 sales
- 30 Howard Walk2 sales
- 32 Howard Walk2 sales
- 38 Howard Walk2 sales
- 6 Howard Walk2 sales
- 26 Howard Walk2 sales
- 16 Howard Walk2 sales
- 11 Howard Walk2 sales
- 3 Howard Walk2 sales
- 29 Howard Walk2 sales
Back to Ashington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Howard Walk, Ashington?
The median price paid in Howard Walk, Ashington 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 Howard Walk, Ashington?
63 sales are on record for Howard Walk, Ashington, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were Howard Walk, Ashington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £129,995, set in 2005. 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 Howard Walk, Ashington?
£1,732 per square metre, from the 18 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 29 May 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, “Howard Walk, 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.