That is the middle of 87 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Ellington’s sales are semi-detached houses
87 homes sold in three years: 23 detached houses, 31 semi-detached houses, 26 terraced houses and 7 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£280K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£228K–£395K
Last 12 months
£323K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£187K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£152K–£211K
Last 12 months
£205K10 sold
Terraced houses£132K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£109K–£175K
Last 12 months
£133K9 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 7 sold, median £65K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Ellington’s homes sold for between £130K and £240K
One sale in ten was under £75K and one in ten over £355K. 76% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £190,000, sits in the £150–200K band
87 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,250 in 1995 to £210,000 in the last 12 months (£163,975 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
32 sales in the last 12 months, against 84 in 2001, the busiest year, and 17 in 2010. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 21%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 129% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ellington costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ellington, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£52K
£112K
£281K
£205K
£222K
£300K
£323K
Semi-detached houses
£45K
£56K
£113K
—
£137K
£175K
£205K
Terraced houses
£27K
£32K
£94K
£80K
£71K
£119K
£133K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 33% in 2018
86 new homes have been sold in Ellington since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
30% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 24% sold leasehold in Ellington. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Woodside Way is Ellington’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Woodside Way
NE61
9
£207,500
Mixed
2
Tweed Avenue
NE61
7
£122,000
Mixed
3
Linden Way
NE61
5
£187,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Breamish
NE61
5
£125,000
Mostly terraced houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Ellington’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Ashington, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea and Stakeford.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Ellington
What is the average house price in Ellington?
The median home in Ellington sold for £190,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 87 standard sales (£210,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £280,000, semi-detached houses £187,000, terraced houses £131,500 and flats and maisonettes £65,000.
Are house prices going up in Ellington?
The median was £200,000 in 2025, up 17% on 2024 (£171,000), and £210,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Ellington each year?
32 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 35 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.