Hartlepool house prices

Hartlepool house prices are built from 50,055 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £80,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +25.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.5%.

HM Land Registry50,055 sales11,626 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Hartlepool 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Hartlepool is £150,000 in 2025; the lowest is £35,700 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £35,700 to £140,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £79,271, so the real change over the whole record is +76.6% — about +1.85% 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: +25.0% in cash against -10.5% 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.

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 Hartlepool values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 16,087 certificates cover Hartlepool, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. 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.

2,839 of the sales on record are leasehold and 47,216 freehold — 5.7% 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 £71,000 and the median freehold sale £80,000 — a gap of +12.7%. 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 — +73.0%. 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 5,932 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 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.

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 £80,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.34% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hartlepool sits below that national figure — -49.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £961 per square metre, across 11,626 of the 50,055 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 £1,500 to £1,920,000. 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.

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.

Streets in Hartlepool

• Stockton Road480 sales
• Catcote Road354 sales
• Intrepid Close330 sales
• Whin Meadows300 sales
• Park Road271 sales
• Cornwall Street247 sales
• Elwick Road240 sales
• Grange Road238 sales
• West View Road235 sales
• Oxford Road223 sales
• Sheriff Street206 sales
• Borrowdale Street204 sales
• Merlin Way199 sales
• Stephen Street199 sales
• Hart Lane194 sales
• Fleet Avenue193 sales
• Everett Street189 sales
• Welldeck Road186 sales
• Raby Road185 sales
• Vickers Lane185 sales
• Dent Street182 sales
• Fieldfare Road181 sales
• Rosthwaite Close175 sales
• York Road173 sales
• Chester Road172 sales
• Silverbirch Road172 sales
• Owton Manor Lane167 sales
• King Oswy Drive166 sales
• Wynyard Mews161 sales
• Kesteven Road159 sales
• Finchley Road158 sales
• Westbrooke Avenue156 sales
• Talland Close155 sales
• Templeton Close146 sales
• Wilson Street146 sales
• Brecongill Close145 sales
• Rodney Street142 sales
• Butterstone Avenue140 sales
• Gala Close138 sales
• Derwent Street134 sales
• Belmont Gardens133 sales
• Furness Street132 sales
• Granville Avenue132 sales
• Honiton Way131 sales
• Westbourne Road131 sales
• Suggitt Street130 sales
• Hurworth Street129 sales
• Torcross Close129 sales
• Mildenhall Close128 sales
• Quayside127 sales
• Thornbury Close127 sales
• Brenda Road126 sales
• Brierton Lane126 sales
• Colwyn Road126 sales
• Gatesgarth Close126 sales
• Percy Street126 sales
• Chandlers Close125 sales
• Osborne Road123 sales
• Clifton Avenue121 sales
• Hutton Avenue121 sales

Postcode districts covering Hartlepool

• TS26£92,500 median
• TS25£80,725 median
• TS24£62,000 median
• TS27£84,999 median

What is the average house price in Hartlepool?

The median price paid in Hartlepool across every sale on the register is £80,000. 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 Hartlepool?

50,055 sales are on record for Hartlepool, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Hartlepool house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +25.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Hartlepool house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £150,000, 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 Hartlepool?

£961 per square metre, from the 11,626 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 22 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, “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.