Lingmell, Washington house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 20 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved -32.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -51.0%.
Median price paid
£70,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
-32.6%
Change in real terms
-51.0%
Median per m²
£1,106
HM Land Registry106 sales26 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Lingmell, Washington prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lingmell, Washington house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | 3 | £33,975 | £75,441 |
| 2000s | 3 | £59,000 | £107,481 |
| 2010s | 1 | £107,500 | £151,575 |
| 2020s | 1 | £78,000 | £79,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lingmell, Washington is £115,750 in 2007; the lowest is £32,975 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £32,975 to £78,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,530, so the real change over the whole record is +37.8% — about +1.29% 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: -32.6% in cash against -51.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 20 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 57 | 28 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 21 | 17 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £207,413 |
| 23 | 29 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| 52 | 29 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 6 | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £56,000 | £58,925 |
| 10 | 8 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £75,632 |
| 43 | 11 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £205,000 | £221,494 |
| 1 | 21 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £50,000 | £57,929 |
| 41 | 24 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 64 | 28 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £79,500 | £92,108 |
| 66 | 29 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £98,548 |
| 62 | 15 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £110,000 | £138,978 |
| 34 | 2 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £105,000 | £132,661 |
| 67 | 17 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £16,360 | £20,670 |
| 8 | 26 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £59,500 | £75,175 |
| 66 | 3 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £63,000 | £81,570 |
| 52 | 17 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £133,000 | £172,204 |
| 17 | 29 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £165,000 | £215,816 |
| 23 | 13 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £147,000 | £192,273 |
| 27 | 24 May 2019 | Terraced | £145,000 | £189,657 |
| 71 | 24 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £35,000 | £45,779 |
| 9 | 11 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £93,289 |
| 49 | 17 Jan 2018 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £266,541 |
| 22 | 25 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £177,000 | £240,898 |
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 Lingmell, Washington values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 Lingmell | £155,000 (2011) | £250,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 57 Lingmell | £37,500 (1995) | £120,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 21 Lingmell | £145,000 (2013) | £203,000 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 23 Lingmell | £147,000 (2019) | £195,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +0.6% |
| 52 Lingmell | £40,000 (1999) | £210,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 10 Lingmell | £29,950 (1996) | £70,000 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 43 Lingmell | £57,500 (2000) | £205,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 1 Lingmell | £29,950 (1997) | £50,000 (2022) | +2.1% | -0.4% |
| 41 Lingmell | £153,000 (2007) | £180,000 (2022) | +1.1% | -1.6% |
| 64 Lingmell | £79,950 (2007) | £79,500 (2022) | 0.0% | -2.7% |
| 66 Lingmell | £63,000 (2020) | £78,000 (2021) | +23.8% | +20.8% |
| 62 Lingmell | £125,000 (2007) | £110,000 (2021) | -0.9% | -3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lingmell, Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 42 | 39.6% | £56,000 | £12,000 – £92,000 |
| Semi-detached | 34 | 32.1% | £151,000 | £38,000 – £250,000 |
| Terraced | 29 | 27.4% | £76,000 | £20,000 – £167,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.9% | £106,500 | £106,500 – £106,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lingmell, Washington
83 of the sales on record are leasehold and 23 freehold — 78.3% 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 £59,500 and the median freehold sale £151,500 — a gap of +154.6%. 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 | 83 | 78.3% | £59,500 |
| Freehold | 23 | 21.7% | £151,500 |
A further 5 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 Lingmell, Washington
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 183 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,961 | 7.5% |
| C | 30,762 | 38.5% |
| D | 34,047 | 42.6% |
| E | 7,676 | 9.6% |
| F | 1,102 | 1.4% |
| G | 228 | 0.3% |
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 £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.53% 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 NE37, 220 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 71 violent, 8 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 147,776 residents the 2021 census counted in South Tyneside, that is 1.49 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 Lingmell, Washington
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.
8 state and independent schools have a NE37 postcode: 6 primary, 1 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 627 |
| George Washington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 384 |
| Usworth Colliery Primary School | Primary | Community school | 333 |
| Albany Village Primary School | Primary | Community school | 214 |
| St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Washington | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Marlborough Primary School | Primary | Community school | 150 |
| Blackfell Primary School | Primary | Community school | 142 |
| Usworth Colliery Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 90 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Pelaw (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 4.5 km |
| Heworth (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 4.7 km |
| Heworth Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
| Heworth (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Lingmell, Washington compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lingmell, Washington sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Washington the street ranks 444 of 568 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £92,000 (-23.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,106 per square metre, across 26 of the 106 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 £12,000 to £250,000. 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.
Lingmell, Washington 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Coach Road Estate£78,000 median
- Collingwood Court£20,000 median
- Donvale Road£82,500 median
- Kenilworth Court£25,000 median
- Marwell Drive£111,000 median
- Neville Court£28,000 median
- Waterloo Walk£16,000 median
- Whernside Close£96,000 median
- Drumaldrace£55,450 median
- Burnway£65,000 median
- Helmdon£65,000 median
- Westernmoor£100,000 median
- Ingleborough Close£63,250 median
- Doddfell Close£88,500 median
- Langdale£92,500 median
- Baugh Close£77,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 27 Lingmell5 sales
- 19 Lingmell5 sales
- 10 Lingmell4 sales
- 43 Lingmell4 sales
- 70 Lingmell4 sales
- 49 Lingmell3 sales
- 52 Lingmell3 sales
- 67 Lingmell3 sales
- 59 Lingmell3 sales
- 14 Lingmell3 sales
- 13 Lingmell3 sales
- 57 Lingmell2 sales
- 21 Lingmell2 sales
- 23 Lingmell2 sales
- 1 Lingmell2 sales
- 41 Lingmell2 sales
- 64 Lingmell2 sales
- 66 Lingmell2 sales
- 62 Lingmell2 sales
- 34 Lingmell2 sales
- 8 Lingmell2 sales
- 71 Lingmell2 sales
- 9 Lingmell2 sales
- 22 Lingmell2 sales
Back to Washington house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lingmell, Washington?
The median price paid in Lingmell, Washington across every sale on the register is £70,000. 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 Lingmell, Washington?
106 sales are on record for Lingmell, Washington, the most recent completing on 20 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lingmell, Washington house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -32.6% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -51.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lingmell, Washington house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £115,750, set in 2007. 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 Lingmell, Washington?
£1,106 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 20 Aug 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, “Lingmell, Washington 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.