Main Street, Morpeth house prices are built from 247 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £140,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.9%.
Median price paid
£140,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+43.6%
Change in real terms
+2.9%
Median per m²
£3,309
HM Land Registry247 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 19 May 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Morpeth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £53,000 | £117,685 |
| 2000s | 9 | £144,750 | £263,692 |
| 2010s | 10 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 5 | £190,000 | £194,130 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Morpeth is £242,500 in 2017; the lowest is £46,000 in 1998. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,250 to £228,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,799, so the real change over the whole record is +100.4% — about +2.27% 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: +43.6% in cash against +2.9% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| Garden House | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £545,000 | £545,000 |
| Billendene | 20 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £25,000 | £25,000 |
| Lyndhurst | 20 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 77 | 14 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| Condorly | 15 Sep 2025 | Detached | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 62b | 4 Apr 2025 | Detached | £780,000 | £796,957 |
| 10 Grey Arms Court | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 61 | 18 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| Ford Villa | 26 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £55,000 | £57,873 |
| Warenford | 25 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| Victoria House | 30 Sep 2024 | Detached | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| Woodside View | 30 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £185,500 | £195,190 |
| 90 | 1 Dec 2023 | Detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 7 | 29 Sep 2023 | Detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| Wooler House | 21 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £65,000 | £70,230 |
| Ashleigh | 23 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| Wensley House | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £65,000 | £70,230 |
| 5 | 23 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £351,000 | £406,664 |
| Selwyn House | 5 May 2022 | Terraced | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 61 | 31 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £286,596 | £332,046 |
| Warenford | 21 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £126,000 | £145,982 |
| 2 Grey Arms Court | 28 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| Kia Ora | 19 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 90 | 1 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £202,151 |
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 Main Street, Morpeth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 Main Street | £55,000 (1996) | £228,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| GARDEN HOUSE Main Street | £275,000 (2005) | £545,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| BILLENDENE Main Street | £46,500 (2000) | £25,000 (2026) | -2.4% | -4.9% |
| 62B Main Street | £500,000 (2021) | £780,000 (2025) | +11.8% | +6.0% |
| 10 GREY ARMS COURT Main Street | £140,000 (2010) | £200,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.6% |
| 61 Main Street | £73,000 (2001) | £295,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| FORD VILLA Main Street | £42,000 (1998) | £55,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -1.6% |
| WARENFORD Main Street | £22,000 (1998) | £130,000 (2024) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| WOODSIDE VIEW Main Street | £49,950 (1999) | £185,500 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 90 Main Street | £160,000 (2021) | £275,000 (2023) | +31.1% | +21.2% |
| 7 Main Street | £122,000 (2013) | £250,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.3% |
| 5 Main Street | £192,500 (2006) | £351,000 (2022) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Morpeth 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 | 89 | 36.0% | £135,000 | £25,000 – £351,000 |
| Terraced | 89 | 36.0% | £126,000 | £10,000 – £380,000 |
| Detached | 60 | 24.3% | £187,500 | £51,000 – £780,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 9 | 3.6% | £60,000 | £32,250 – £150,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Morpeth
9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 238 freehold — 3.6% 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 £60,000 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +133.3%. 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 | 9 | 3.6% | £60,000 |
| Freehold | 238 | 96.4% | £140,000 |
| New build | 10 | 4.0% | £134,000 |
| Existing home | 237 | 96.0% | £140,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.3%. 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 13 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 Main Street, Morpeth
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 £140,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.89% 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 NE65, 1 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 100.0 times quieter.
Against the 320,567 residents the 2021 census counted in Northumberland, that is 0.00 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 Main Street, Morpeth
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.
12 state and independent schools have a NE65 postcode: 10 primary, 1 secondary, 1 middle deemed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Calvert Spence College | Secondary | Community school | 567 |
| Amble Links Primary School | Primary | Community school | 216 |
| NCEA Warkworth Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 184 |
| King Edwin Primary School | Primary | Community school | 161 |
| Felton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 102 |
| Longhorsley St Helen's Church of England Aided First School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 96 |
| Rothbury First School | Primary | Community school | 94 |
| Broomhill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 80 |
| Swarland Primary School | Primary | Community school | 76 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Acklington Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
| Alnmouth Rail Station | Rail | 11.0 km |
| Widdrington Rail Station | Rail | 11.5 km |
| Pegswood Rail Station | Rail | 16.5 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Morpeth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Morpeth sits below that national figure — -11.1%.
Within Morpeth the street ranks 572 of 961 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-6.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,309 per square metre, across 1 of the 247 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 £780,000. 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.
Main Street, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Gloster Park£130,500 median
- Church View£126,250 median
- Station Road£160,000 median
- Norham Drive£166,500 median
- Chevington Green£159,500 median
- Ladyburn Way£140,000 median
- Whitton View£250,000 median
- Priory Park£68,700 median
- Robsons Way£110,995 median
- Bridge Street£139,000 median
- High Street£85,750 median
- Queen Street£67,000 median
- Church Street£100,000 median
- Castle Street£130,000 median
- King Edward Street£90,000 median
- Field House Close£174,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 61 Main Street6 sales
- WARENFORD Main Street5 sales
- 63 Main Street5 sales
- 37 Main Street4 sales
- 83 Main Street4 sales
- 58 Main Street4 sales
- THE RIGGS Main Street4 sales
- RAEMORE Main Street4 sales
- LION HOUSE Main Street4 sales
- 72 Main Street3 sales
- GARDEN HOUSE Main Street3 sales
- WOODSIDE VIEW Main Street3 sales
- 7 Main Street3 sales
- 5 Main Street3 sales
- 2, GREY ARMS COURT Main Street3 sales
- 4, GREY ARMS COURT Main Street3 sales
- 9, GREY ARMS COURT Main Street3 sales
- ROOSEBECK Main Street3 sales
- ASHCROFT Main Street3 sales
- 24 Main Street3 sales
- 33 Main Street3 sales
- ADDISCOMBE Main Street3 sales
- 26 Main Street3 sales
- 42 Main Street3 sales
Back to Morpeth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Morpeth?
The median price paid in Main Street, Morpeth across every sale on the register is £140,000. 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 Main Street, Morpeth?
247 sales are on record for Main Street, Morpeth, the most recent completing on 19 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Main Street, Morpeth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +43.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Morpeth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £242,500, set in 2017. 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 Main Street, Morpeth?
£3,309 per square metre, from the 1 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 19 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, “Main Street, 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.