Average house price in Middlesbrough 2026

The typical home sold in Middlesbrough in 2025 changed hands for £155,000 — around 47% below the £295,000 median for England and Wales. That makes Middlesbrough one of the most affordable places to buy a home of any sizeable town in the country. But the purchase price is only half the picture: the town's running costs, and the energy profile of its cheapest streets, tell a more complicated story.

The figures below are drawn from HM Land Registry's Price Paid record of completed sales in the Middlesbrough local authority (postcode area TS, council code E06000002), filtered to standard residential transactions. Data fetched 1 July 2026.

What the typical sale looks like

Across 1,650 standard sales in the Middlesbrough authority in 2025, the median was £155,000 and the mean £174,586. The gap between the two — about £20,000 — reflects a modest tail of higher-value detached sales pulling the average up; the median is the better guide to a typical purchase.

That median is almost unchanged on 2024 (£154,000 across 1,688 sales, up 0.6%). New-build made up 5.0% of 2025 sales, down from 14.3% in 2024; because newly built homes take longer to reach the completed-sales record, the most recent year is read here as a stable level rather than a year-on-year move.

Middlesbrough is a semi-detached town: the semi is the single most-traded type, and its £160,000 median sits close to the overall figure. The spread by type is wide — a detached home costs roughly 2.9 times a terrace — but the striking number is the terraced median of £95,000. At that price a buyer of an existing home pays no Stamp Duty Land Tax at all, because the purchase sits below the £125,000 nil-rate threshold (HMRC, 2026).

Neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Prices inside the borough range by a factor of more than three, from the town centre out to the southern suburbs.

The busiest district by volume is TS5 (Linthorpe and Acklam), whose £160,000 median tracks the town as a whole. At the top, the leafier suburbs of TS7 change hands for around £230,000; at the bottom, TS1 and TS3 rank among the cheapest postcode districts in England, with medians of £73,000 and £90,000 respectively. For context on how those figures compare nationally, see our analysis of the postcodes where £100,000 buys the average home and the cheapest postcode areas to buy in the UK.

Widen the lens to the whole TS postcode area and the range grows further. The TS area is not the same as the Middlesbrough council: it stretches across seven local authorities — Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool, County Durham, North Yorkshire and Darlington. Across that wider Teesside footprint, 2025 medians run from £73,000 in central Middlesbrough (TS1) to £323,995 in Wynyard (TS22, Stockton-on-Tees), £290,000 in Yarm (TS15, Stockton) and £283,000 in Stokesley (TS9, North Yorkshire) — a spread of more than four times. A single "average Teesside price" would hide almost everything that matters, which is why the borough-level figure above is the more meaningful benchmark.

Cheap to buy, less cheap to run

Where Middlesbrough stops looking like a bargain is the council tax bill. The Band D charge for 2026-27 is £2,549.16 — the 63rd-highest of the 296 billing authorities in England, and about £138 above the £2,410.97 national average. Among the five Tees Valley authorities it sits mid-table:

Council tax is a flat charge for each band, set to the authority's budget and based on 1991 property values — it is not a percentage of what a home is worth today. That means a low-priced area can still carry a proportionally heavy annual bill. In Middlesbrough the Band D charge works out at roughly 1.6% of the typical local sale price every year, one of the higher council-tax-to-price ratios of any major English town. Buyers weighing areas on total cost, rather than headline price alone, can compare authorities in our guide to the cheapest and most expensive council tax areas in England, and read how the bands are set in council tax bands explained.

The energy profile

Middlesbrough's housing stock is middling on energy efficiency: across the domestic Energy Performance Certificate register, 33.2% of homes are rated C or above and 66.8% sit at D or below, close to the national split. The below-average ratings are concentrated in the oldest, cheapest terraced streets. In TS3, 70.6% of homes are rated D or below — a reminder that the lowest purchase prices can come with the largest gap to a modern efficiency standard, and the heating bills that go with it. What an EPC band means for running costs is set out in our EPC rating guide; the band is a guide to relative efficiency, not a precise bill.

What it costs each month

At the £155,000 median, a buyer with a 25% deposit (£38,750) taking a £116,250 repayment mortgage over 25 years would pay roughly £634 a month at the Bank of England's average quoted 75% loan-to-value five-year fixed rate of 4.32% (April 2026). Add the Band D council tax of about £212 a month and the housing bill comes to around £847 a month before energy, insurance and maintenance. The equivalent figure for a typical detached home (£276,500) is about £1,132 a month on the mortgage alone; for a £95,000 terrace, about £389.

These are illustrations, not quotes. The rate a buyer is offered depends on their lender, deposit, credit profile and the product chosen. Middlesbrough's low entry prices and relatively high rental yields have long made it a focus for landlords; the wider cost picture for that route, including the additional-property Stamp Duty surcharge, is covered in the true cost of a buy-to-let property.

Stamp duty at these prices

Because Middlesbrough prices sit low against national thresholds, transaction tax is modest or nil for most buyers (all figures HMRC rates, 2026):

• At the £155,000 median, a home mover pays £600 in SDLT (an effective rate of 0.39%). A first-time buyer of a main residence pays £0, as the price is below the £300,000 first-time-buyer nil-rate.
• At the £95,000 terraced median, both movers and first-time buyers pay £0, as the price is below the £125,000 standard nil-rate.
• At the £276,500 detached median, a mover pays £3,825; a first-time buyer still pays £0.
• Buyers of an additional property (a second home or buy-to-let) pay a 5% surcharge on the full price on top of the standard charge — about £7,750 extra at the £155,000 median.

Eligibility for first-time-buyer relief and the additional-property rules depend on individual circumstances, which a conveyancer confirms on completion.

The direction of travel

The Land Registry median for Middlesbrough was broadly flat year on year (£154,000 in 2024 to £155,000 in 2025). The Office for National Statistics House Price Index, which adjusts for the mix of properties sold, shows the Middlesbrough index rising from 102.5 in March 2025 to 103.6 in March 2026, a 1.1% annual movement, against a UK figure that was essentially flat (+0.1%). The wider North East regional index moved the other way, down 1.1% over the same period. For the region's largest city, see the average house price in Newcastle, which remains roughly a third dearer than Middlesbrough. These are published index movements to the most recent release, not forecasts.

Check any Teesside street

To see the all-in monthly cost of homes on a specific street — mortgage at today's quoted rate, council tax, energy from EPC data and stamp duty for your situation — enter a postcode into the Homecost cost tool. Central Middlesbrough sits around TS1 1AA; the southern suburbs around TS7 0AA. You can also browse more regional price guides.

Based on 1,650 HM Land Registry transactions recorded in Middlesbrough in 2025, the 2026-27 council tax list and the domestic EPC register. This is general information, not financial, tax or legal advice. Speak to a qualified adviser before acting.