Merley Gate, Morpeth house prices are built from 130 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £139,000. Across the 10 years from 2004 to 2014 the median moved +65.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.1%.
Median price paid
£139,000
Change in cash, 2004–2014
+65.7%
Change in real terms
+28.1%
Median per m²
£2,242
HM Land Registry130 sales21 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026
Section 01
How Merley Gate, Morpeth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Merley Gate, Morpeth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2014. 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 | 4 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 6 | £124,750 | £227,258 |
| 2010s | 1 | £246,000 | £346,860 |
The highest yearly median on record for Merley Gate, Morpeth is £246,000 in 2006; the lowest is £59,995 in 1998. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £72,750 to £246,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £157,812, so the real change over the whole record is +123.6% — about +4.57% 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: +65.7% in cash against +28.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £181,500 | £181,500 |
| 54 | 5 Jun 2025 | Detached | £469,000 | £479,196 |
| 30 | 8 Mar 2024 | Detached | £308,000 | £324,090 |
| 65 | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £342,500 | £370,057 |
| 14 | 27 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 19 | 4 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| 36 | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 25 | 26 Mar 2021 | Detached | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| 8 | 26 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £137,500 | £173,723 |
| 12 | 4 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £147,000 | £185,726 |
| 9 | 14 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £138,000 | £178,678 |
| 14 | 7 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £148,000 | £191,625 |
| 69 | 4 Dec 2020 | Detached | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| 44 | 20 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £135,000 | £174,793 |
| 1 | 9 Aug 2019 | Detached | £253,500 | £331,572 |
| 2 | 21 Jun 2019 | Detached | £267,500 | £349,884 |
| 59 | 21 Jun 2019 | Detached | £255,000 | £333,534 |
| 71 | 30 Aug 2018 | Detached | £246,000 | £327,845 |
| 43 | 18 Apr 2018 | Terraced | £117,500 | £156,593 |
| 40 | 1 Nov 2017 | Detached | £240,000 | £326,641 |
| 45 | 10 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £123,000 | £167,403 |
| 55 | 17 Nov 2016 | Detached | £282,500 | £394,381 |
| 66 | 18 May 2016 | Detached | £279,950 | £390,821 |
| 52 | 29 Apr 2016 | Detached | £270,000 | £376,931 |
| 65 | 1 Mar 2016 | Detached | £239,950 | £334,980 |
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 Merley Gate, Morpeth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Merley Gate | £111,000 (2003) | £181,500 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.6% |
| 54 Merley Gate | £115,000 (1996) | £469,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 30 Merley Gate | £242,000 (2008) | £308,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 65 Merley Gate | £239,950 (2016) | £342,500 (2023) | +5.2% | +1.4% |
| 19 Merley Gate | £149,950 (2006) | £135,000 (2022) | -0.7% | -3.3% |
| 36 Merley Gate | £165,000 (2002) | £295,000 (2021) | +3.1% | +0.8% |
| 8 Merley Gate | £51,500 (1995) | £137,500 (2021) | +3.8% | +1.6% |
| 69 Merley Gate | £87,500 (1995) | £245,000 (2020) | +4.2% | +2.0% |
| 44 Merley Gate | £90,000 (2013) | £135,000 (2020) | +6.0% | +4.2% |
| 1 Merley Gate | £100,000 (1997) | £253,500 (2019) | +4.3% | +2.1% |
| 2 Merley Gate | £107,000 (1998) | £267,500 (2019) | +4.5% | +2.2% |
| 71 Merley Gate | £270,000 (2008) | £246,000 (2018) | -0.9% | -3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Merley Gate, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 69 | 53.1% | £230,000 | £50,000 – £469,000 |
| Terraced | 45 | 34.6% | £135,000 | £43,000 – £295,000 |
| Semi-detached | 16 | 12.3% | £123,000 | £51,000 – £152,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Merley Gate, Morpeth
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 130 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 130 | 100.0% | £139,000 |
A further 1 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 Merley Gate, 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 £139,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.93% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Merley Gate, 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.
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The King Edward VI School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,426 |
| Morpeth Chantry Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 525 |
| Morpeth Newminster Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 521 |
| Abbeyfields First School | Primary | Academy converter | 324 |
| Morpeth First School | Primary | Community school | 320 |
| Morpeth All Saints Church of England First School | Primary | Academy converter | 231 |
| Ellington Primary School | Primary | Community school | 218 |
| St Roberts Catholic First School, Morpeth | Primary | Academy converter | 177 |
| Morpeth Stobhillgate First School | Primary | Academy converter | 165 |
| Grange View Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 156 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Morpeth Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Pegswood Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Ashington Rail Station | Rail | 7.2 km |
| Widdrington Rail Station | Rail | 8.3 km |
Section 09
How Merley Gate, Morpeth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Merley Gate, Morpeth sits below that national figure — -11.7%.
Within Morpeth the street ranks 585 of 961 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-7.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,242 per square metre, across 21 of the 130 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 £43,000 to £469,000. 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.
Merley Gate, 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
- Dacre Street£112,500 median
- Maple Drive£138,000 median
- Hillside£245,000 median
- The Gables£84,500 median
- Beaumont Court£175,000 median
- Dalton Avenue£47,500 median
- Mile Road£105,000 median
- Linton Burn Park£94,000 median
- Mathesons Gardens£130,500 median
- Fennel Way£213,975 median
- Parkside Gardens£112,750 median
- Bowyer Way£230,000 median
- Willow Close£79,500 median
- Loansdean Wood£194,250 median
- St Marys Field£111,500 median
- Pretoria Avenue£105,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 14 Merley Gate6 sales
- 17 Merley Gate5 sales
- 18 Merley Gate5 sales
- 8 Merley Gate4 sales
- 40 Merley Gate4 sales
- 10 Merley Gate4 sales
- 4 Merley Gate4 sales
- 15 Merley Gate4 sales
- 47 Merley Gate4 sales
- 54 Merley Gate3 sales
- 44 Merley Gate3 sales
- 1 Merley Gate3 sales
- 2 Merley Gate3 sales
- 48 Merley Gate3 sales
- 46 Merley Gate3 sales
- 21 Merley Gate3 sales
- 7 Merley Gate3 sales
- 16 Merley Gate3 sales
- 30 Merley Gate2 sales
- 65 Merley Gate2 sales
- 19 Merley Gate2 sales
- 36 Merley Gate2 sales
- 69 Merley Gate2 sales
- 71 Merley Gate2 sales
Back to Morpeth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Merley Gate, Morpeth?
The median price paid in Merley Gate, Morpeth across every sale on the register is £139,000. 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 Merley Gate, Morpeth?
130 sales are on record for Merley Gate, Morpeth, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Merley Gate, Morpeth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +65.7% between 2004 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Merley Gate, Morpeth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £246,000, 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 Merley Gate, Morpeth?
£2,242 per square metre, from the 21 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 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, “Merley Gate, 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.