Alston Crescent, Sunderland house prices

Alston Crescent, Sunderland house prices are built from 206 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 28 Feb 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £139,975. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +48.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.2%.

HM Land Registry206 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Feb 2025

The chart tracks the median Alston Crescent, Sunderland house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 Alston Crescent, Sunderland is £226,500 in 2022; the lowest is £51,250 in 1998. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £52,000 to £215,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £112,800, so the real change over the whole record is +100.6% — about +2.52% 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: +48.8% in cash against +9.2% 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 Alston Crescent, Sunderland values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Alston Crescent, Sunderland is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

147 of the sales on record are leasehold and 59 freehold — 71.4% 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 £132,000 and the median freehold sale £150,000 — a gap of +13.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 3 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 South Tyneside, 46.2% of 79,959 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.7% 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 South Tyneside at £731 a month as of Jun 2026 — £512 for a one-bedroom home and £763 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £139,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.27% 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 SR6, 93 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 23 violent, 3 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 24 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times quieter.

Against the 147,776 residents the 2021 census counted in South Tyneside, that is 0.63 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 147,776 residents in South Tyneside across 68,288 households. 57.1% of those households own their home and 42.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

11 state and independent schools have a SR6 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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. Alston Crescent, Sunderland sits below that national figure — -11.1%.

Within Sunderland the street ranks 664 of 2283 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £92,000 (+52.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,753 per square metre, across 27 of the 206 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 £15,700 to £275,000. 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.

Alston Crescent, Sunderland sits in South Tyneside, in the North East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Tyneside at 5.2 times median local earnings of £31,604 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 nearby

• Fulwell Road£83,000 median
• Roker Avenue£92,750 median
• Atkinson Road£110,000 median
• East Boldon Road£177,475 median
• Hartington Street£90,000 median
• Bright Street£87,000 median
• Annie Street£83,725 median
• Laburnum Road£92,975 median
• Bede Street£80,500 median
• The Close£73,000 median
• Forster Street£88,000 median
• Dykelands Road£159,000 median
• Dovedale Road£153,000 median
• Inverness Street£131,250 median
• Wheatall Drive£118,000 median
• Gladstone Street£70,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 79 Alston Crescent6 sales
• 83 Alston Crescent5 sales
• 48 Alston Crescent4 sales
• 52 Alston Crescent4 sales
• 1 Alston Crescent4 sales
• 34 Alston Crescent4 sales
• 104 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 219 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 93 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 243 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 167 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 44 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 41 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 43 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 94 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 217 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 29 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 73 Alston Crescent3 sales
• 173 Alston Crescent2 sales
• 144 Alston Crescent2 sales
• 28 Alston Crescent2 sales
• 60 Alston Crescent2 sales
• 56 Alston Crescent2 sales
• 108 Alston Crescent2 sales

Back to Sunderland house prices.

What is the average house price in Alston Crescent, Sunderland?

The median price paid in Alston Crescent, Sunderland across every sale on the register is £139,975. 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 Alston Crescent, Sunderland?

206 sales are on record for Alston Crescent, Sunderland, the most recent completing on 28 Feb 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Alston Crescent, Sunderland house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +48.8% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Alston Crescent, Sunderland house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £226,500, set in 2022. 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 Alston Crescent, Sunderland?

£1,753 per square metre, from the 27 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 28 Feb 2025. 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, “Alston Crescent, Sunderland 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.