Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe house prices are built from 94 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £77,500. Across the 12 years from 1995 to 2007 the median moved +158.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +102.0%.
Median price paid
£77,500
Change in cash, 1995–2007
+158.0%
Change in real terms
+102.0%
Median per m²
£1,084
HM Land Registry94 sales26 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe prices moved
The chart tracks the median Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2007. 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 | 1 | £32,750 | £72,720 |
| 2000s | 5 | £81,000 | £147,558 |
The highest yearly median on record for Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe is £85,500 in 2004; the lowest is £32,750 in 1995. Across the full 13-year record the cash median has moved from £32,750 to £84,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £72,720, so the real change over the whole record is +102.0% — about +6.04% 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: +158.0% in cash against +102.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 13 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £115,000 | £115,000 |
| 83 | 27 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £86,000 | £87,870 |
| 1 | 5 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £199,950 | £204,297 |
| 35 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £110,000 | £112,391 |
| 86 | 24 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £143,000 | £146,109 |
| 87 | 23 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £81,500 | £85,757 |
| 74 | 9 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 18 | 10 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £120,000 | £129,655 |
| 66 | 18 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £94,000 | £108,907 |
| 78 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £112,000 | £129,762 |
| 9 | 22 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| 4 | 29 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £128,000 | £161,720 |
| 107 | 9 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £68,500 | £86,546 |
| 28 | 3 Sep 2020 | Detached | £84,000 | £108,760 |
| 74 | 24 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £79,000 | £102,287 |
| 31 | 15 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £123,000 | £159,256 |
| 12 | 14 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £128,000 | £167,421 |
| 51 | 29 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £128,000 | £167,421 |
| 28 | 14 Dec 2018 | Detached | £82,000 | £109,282 |
| 66 | 24 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £74,000 | £98,620 |
| 13 | 8 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £113,000 | £150,595 |
| 7 | 15 Jul 2016 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £181,485 |
| 15 | 25 Apr 2016 | Semi-detached | £118,000 | £164,733 |
| 115 | 2 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £72,000 | £101,520 |
| 4 | 17 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £123,000 | £173,430 |
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 Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 Mellanby Crescent | £59,000 (2005) | £86,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 1 Mellanby Crescent | £47,450 (1999) | £199,950 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 74 Mellanby Crescent | £85,500 (2004) | £105,000 (2024) | +1.0% | -1.8% |
| 66 Mellanby Crescent | £90,000 (2005) | £94,000 (2022) | +0.3% | -2.4% |
| 4 Mellanby Crescent | £123,000 (2015) | £128,000 (2021) | +0.7% | -1.2% |
| 107 Mellanby Crescent | £34,500 (2001) | £68,500 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.2% |
| 28 Mellanby Crescent | £76,000 (2005) | £84,000 (2020) | +0.7% | -1.6% |
| 31 Mellanby Crescent | £83,000 (2014) | £123,000 (2020) | +6.8% | +5.0% |
| 115 Mellanby Crescent | £38,950 (2002) | £72,000 (2015) | +4.8% | +2.3% |
| 21 Mellanby Crescent | £46,950 (1996) | £110,000 (2014) | +4.8% | +2.5% |
| 72 Mellanby Crescent | £35,000 (1998) | £80,315 (2008) | +8.7% | +6.4% |
| 58 Mellanby Crescent | £47,000 (2003) | £84,500 (2007) | +15.8% | +13.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 61 | 64.9% | £76,000 | £16,000 – £143,000 |
| Semi-detached | 30 | 31.9% | £79,000 | £22,000 – £199,950 |
| Detached | 3 | 3.2% | £82,000 | £76,000 – £84,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 94 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 | 94 | 100.0% | £77,500 |
A further 11 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 Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across County Durham, 45.4% of 308,749 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,955 | 0.6% |
| B | 26,324 | 8.5% |
| C | 111,773 | 36.2% |
| D | 123,575 | 40.0% |
| E | 34,304 | 11.1% |
| F | 8,153 | 2.6% |
| G | 2,665 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in County Durham at £641 a month as of Jun 2026 — £450 for a one-bedroom home and £683 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £77,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.93% 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 DL5, 377 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 119 violent, 36 burglary, 24 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 522,068 residents the 2021 census counted in County Durham, that is 0.72 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 Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe
The 2021 census counted 522,068 residents in County Durham across 234,764 households. 62.8% of those households own their home and 37.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a DL5 postcode: 10 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodham Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,071 |
| Greenfield Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 566 |
| Sugar Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 448 |
| Vane Road Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 427 |
| UTC South Durham | Secondary | University technical college | 421 |
| Stephenson Way Academy and Nursery School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 285 |
| Heighington Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 248 |
| Woodham Burn Community Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| Byerley Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 207 |
| Aycliffe Village Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 179 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Newton Aycliffe Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Heighington Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Shildon Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Bishop Auckland Rail Station | Rail | 7.7 km |
Section 09
How Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe sits below that national figure — -50.8%.
Within Newton Aycliffe the street ranks 297 of 460 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £95,000 (-18.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,084 per square metre, across 26 of the 94 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 £16,000 to £199,950. 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.
Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe sits in County Durham, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in County Durham at 4.3 times median local earnings of £32,945 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
- Hamsterley Road£80,000 median
- Pemberton Road£96,000 median
- Heatherburn Court£63,950 median
- Eade Close£84,998 median
- Birch Way£199,950 median
- Lockyer Close£63,300 median
- Pinewood Close£124,000 median
- Ashtree Close£122,250 median
- Wellhouse Road£126,995 median
- Haslewood Road£120,000 median
- Bewick Crescent£77,000 median
- Cypress Grove£121,950 median
- Lisle Road£57,400 median
- Chestnut Way£179,995 median
- Foxglove Close£115,995 median
- Kestrel Court£80,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 74 Mellanby Crescent4 sales
- 115 Mellanby Crescent4 sales
- 83 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 1 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 66 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 28 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 72 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 113 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 109 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 67 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 84 Mellanby Crescent3 sales
- 4 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 107 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 31 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 21 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 58 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 70 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 36 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 32 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 98 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 44 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 91 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 64 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
- 105 Mellanby Crescent2 sales
Back to Newton Aycliffe house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe?
The median price paid in Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe across every sale on the register is £77,500. 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 Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe?
94 sales are on record for Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe, the most recent completing on 13 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +158.0% between 1995 and 2007. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +102.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £85,500, set in 2004. 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 Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe?
£1,084 per square metre, from the 26 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 13 Feb 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, “Mellanby Crescent, Newton Aycliffe 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.