The Gables, Morpeth house prices are built from 160 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £84,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +69.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.1%.
Median price paid
£84,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+69.9%
Change in real terms
+23.1%
HM Land Registry160 salesLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How The Gables, Morpeth prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Gables, Morpeth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | £37,750 | £83,823 |
| 2000s | 7 | £83,748 | £152,563 |
| 2010s | 5 | £109,500 | £154,395 |
| 2020s | 3 | £133,250 | £136,147 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Gables, Morpeth is £175,000 in 2025; the lowest is £30,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £30,000 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £65,077, so the real change over the whole record is +174.8% — about +3.55% 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: +69.9% in cash against +23.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | 30 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £57,000 | £57,000 |
| 17 | 8 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £168,000 | £171,652 |
| 29 | 4 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 4 | 31 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £172,500 | £176,250 |
| 70a | 30 Jun 2025 | Detached | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 33 | 6 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £214,000 | £218,652 |
| 11 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £178,804 |
| 20 | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 54 | 6 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 39 | 15 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 44 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £101,000 | £106,276 |
| 87 | 24 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £152,000 | £164,230 |
| 31 | 4 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £179,000 | £193,402 |
| 5 | 15 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £200,500 | £216,632 |
| 26 | 17 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 68 | 15 Nov 2022 | Detached | £90,000 | £104,273 |
| 61 | 29 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £189,000 | £218,973 |
| 92 | 24 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £127,500 | £147,720 |
| 96 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 112 | 9 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £67,000 | £77,625 |
| 10 | 28 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £139,000 | £161,044 |
| 88b | 5 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £142,500 | £180,040 |
| 28 | 1 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £30,000 | £37,903 |
| 54 | 4 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £126,000 | £159,194 |
| 22 | 18 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £86,000 | £108,656 |
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 The Gables, Morpeth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 the Gables | £14,000 (1997) | £57,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 29 the Gables | £31,000 (2000) | £210,000 (2025) | +8.0% | +5.1% |
| 4 the Gables | £23,500 (1997) | £172,500 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 11 the Gables | £89,000 (2013) | £175,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.7% |
| 54 the Gables | £126,000 (2021) | £180,000 (2024) | +12.6% | +6.0% |
| 44 the Gables | £76,000 (2008) | £101,000 (2024) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 68 the Gables | £47,000 (1997) | £90,000 (2022) | +2.6% | +0.2% |
| 61 the Gables | £100,000 (2012) | £189,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 92 the Gables | £44,000 (1999) | £127,500 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 96 the Gables | £30,000 (1996) | £150,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 112 the Gables | £12,056 (2000) | £67,000 (2022) | +8.1% | +5.5% |
| 88B the Gables | £44,000 (1996) | £142,500 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Gables, 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 | 99 | 61.9% | £105,000 | £27,950 – £214,000 |
| Terraced | 30 | 18.8% | £57,500 | £12,056 – £172,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22 | 13.8% | £58,000 | £11,250 – £150,500 |
| Detached | 9 | 5.6% | £90,000 | £46,000 – £300,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Gables, Morpeth
73 of the sales on record are leasehold and 87 freehold — 45.6% 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 £67,000 and the median freehold sale £100,000 — a gap of +49.3%. 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 | 73 | 45.6% | £67,000 |
| Freehold | 87 | 54.4% | £100,000 |
A further 10 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 The Gables, 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 £84,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.76% 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 The Gables, 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 The Gables, Morpeth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Gables, Morpeth sits below that national figure — -46.3%.
Within Morpeth the street ranks 819 of 961 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-43.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £11,250 to £300,000. 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.
The Gables, 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
- 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
- Merley Gate£139,000 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
- 22 the Gables6 sales
- 116 the Gables5 sales
- 7 the Gables5 sales
- 98 the Gables5 sales
- 108 the Gables5 sales
- 96 the Gables4 sales
- 112 the Gables4 sales
- 88B the Gables4 sales
- 70 the Gables4 sales
- 78 the Gables4 sales
- 101 the Gables4 sales
- 44 the Gables3 sales
- 61 the Gables3 sales
- 92 the Gables3 sales
- 19 the Gables3 sales
- 122 the Gables3 sales
- 102 the Gables3 sales
- 106 the Gables3 sales
- 94 the Gables3 sales
- 84 the Gables3 sales
- 120 the Gables3 sales
- 29 the Gables2 sales
- 4 the Gables2 sales
- 11 the Gables2 sales
Back to Morpeth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Gables, Morpeth?
The median price paid in The Gables, Morpeth across every sale on the register is £84,500. 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 The Gables, Morpeth?
160 sales are on record for The Gables, Morpeth, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Gables, Morpeth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Gables, Morpeth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,000, 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 The Gables, Morpeth?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 30 Jan 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, “The Gables, 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.