Former Hartlepool Labour HQ Marked Sold After £75,000 Guide Price...

Could Hartlepool’s Former Labour Offices Become Flats, or a HMO ?

Former Labour Party Campaign Office which was the base for both former MP's Iain Wright & Peter Mandelson sold at auction.

11th November 2026

A former Labour campaign office in Hartlepool, once the base for two former Members of Parliament has been sold at auction after going on the market with a guide price of £75,000.

The former Labour Party Campaign Offices in South Rd Hartlepool was recently marketed for sale through the estate agents manners & Harrison, with the significant 5 bedroomed property being sold at auction with a guide price of just £75,000..

From Labour campaign base to union offices

The property was used as the official offices of Peter Mandelson when he held the Constuency seat in Hartlepool

The building at 23 South Road is understood to have served as Peter Mandelson’s constituency office. It was also the base for Iain Wright’s 2004 by-election campaign when he stood to succeed Mandelson in the Hartlepool Constituency, with parliamentary records later listing the address as Wright’s local office. He represented Hartlepool until 2017.

The property is understood to have previously been owned by the company Labour Party Nominees Limited. It later became the office for UNISON, the public services union, before being vacated and put up for sale.

Labour subsequently regained the Hartlepool constituency seat in the July 2024 general election when Jonathan Brash defeated Conservative Jill Mortimer, who had won the seat at a by-election three years earlier. Brash set up his constituency office at 206 York Road around a year before his election to Parliament, leaving the party’s former South Road base surplus to requirements.

The large size of the building has led to claims the property will be swiftly converted into a flats of a controversial House of multiple Occupation (HMO)

Manners & Harrison advertised the freehold as a five-bedroom end-of-terrace property, with the particulars describing it as commercial premises with offices across several floors. The listing shows two kitchens, a lift serving the first floor and a rear yard with access for parking.

The layout could lend itself to conversion into flats or, perhaps controversially, a house in multiple occupation (HMO), subject to any necessary planning consents. The buyer’s plans for the building remain unknown.