Morpeth house prices

Morpeth house prices are built from 30,939 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £150,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +27.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.9%.

HM Land Registry30,939 sales1,946 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Morpeth 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 Morpeth is £257,500 in 2025; the lowest is £51,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,500 to £250,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,354, so the real change over the whole record is +118.6% — about +2.56% 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: +27.2% in cash against -8.9% 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 Morpeth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Morpeth 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. 7,142 certificates cover Morpeth, and their median floor area is 89 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +17.1%. 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.

4,055 of the sales on record are leasehold and 26,884 freehold — 13.1% 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 £119,000 and the median freehold sale £160,000 — a gap of +34.5%. 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 — +32.9%. 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 2,097 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 £150,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.50% 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 NE61, 76 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 39 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times quieter.

Against the 320,567 residents the 2021 census counted in Northumberland, that is 0.24 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.

18 state and independent schools have a NE61 postcode: 15 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 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. Morpeth sits below that national figure — -4.8%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,891 per square metre, across 1,946 of the 30,939 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 £600 to £4,000,000. 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.

Morpeth 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 in Morpeth

• Gloster Park293 sales
• Main Street247 sales
• Dacre Street224 sales
• Maple Drive185 sales
• Church View178 sales
• Station Road177 sales
• Hillside171 sales
• Norham Drive169 sales
• The Gables160 sales
• Chevington Green156 sales
• Beaumont Court152 sales
• Dalton Avenue144 sales
• Mile Road143 sales
• Ladyburn Way141 sales
• Whitton View141 sales
• Priory Park136 sales
• Linton Burn Park135 sales
• Mathesons Gardens131 sales
• Merley Gate130 sales
• Fennel Way128 sales
• Robsons Way127 sales
• Parkside Gardens126 sales
• Bridge Street124 sales
• High Street123 sales
• Bowyer Way121 sales
• Willow Close121 sales
• Loansdean Wood120 sales
• St Marys Field118 sales
• Pretoria Avenue117 sales
• Park Road115 sales
• Queen Street113 sales
• Bamburgh Drive111 sales
• Church Street109 sales
• Grange Road106 sales
• Newgate Street106 sales
• Kirkharle Drive104 sales
• Wansdyke104 sales
• Castle Street103 sales
• Abbey Meadows101 sales
• Crookham Grove101 sales
• Green Lane95 sales
• Tweed Avenue93 sales
• Charles Drive92 sales
• Field House Close92 sales
• King Edward Street92 sales
• Kingswell92 sales
• Castleway90 sales
• St Johns Estate90 sales
• Olympia Gardens88 sales
• Wellwood Street88 sales
• Lindisfarne Lane85 sales
• Kirkwell Cottages84 sales
• Third Row83 sales
• Gordon Street80 sales
• Low Stobhill80 sales
• The Pastures80 sales
• Bluebell Drive78 sales
• Edward Street78 sales
• Hood Street77 sales
• Park Drive77 sales

Postcode districts covering Morpeth

• NE61£149,995 median
• NE65£155,000 median

What is the average house price in Morpeth?

The median price paid in Morpeth across every sale on the register is £150,000. 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 Morpeth?

30,939 sales are on record for Morpeth, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Morpeth house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +27.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Morpeth house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £257,500, 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 Morpeth?

£1,891 per square metre, from the 1,946 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 23 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, “Morpeth 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.