Local market reports › NE
Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 612,503 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the NE postcode area (Newcastle upon Tyne) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
NE is the postcode area centred on Newcastle upon Tyne, taking in 59 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Click the map to open NE on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
The 2026 median in NE is £175,000, from 4,046 registered sales; the mean, £218,000, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so NE trades 36% below the country as a whole.
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 4,046 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 19,275 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £181,716 | 20,473 |
| 2023 | £175,000 | £187,792 | 19,930 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £194,689 | 22,790 |
| 2021 | £163,000 | £201,559 | 25,133 |
| 2020 | £157,000 | £198,953 | 18,631 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £192,022 | 20,431 |
| 2018 | £148,500 | £193,330 | 20,968 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £193,147 | 21,229 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £191,287 | 19,932 |
| 2015 | £140,000 | £193,200 | 18,689 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £187,048 | 18,094 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £182,688 | 14,328 |
| 2012 | £128,600 | £184,863 | 11,887 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £184,295 | 12,072 |
| 2010 | £132,000 | £202,175 | 11,433 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £204,096 | 11,077 |
| 2008 | £128,200 | £205,239 | 12,945 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £215,366 | 26,515 |
| 2006 | £126,000 | £213,612 | 26,286 |
| 2005 | £117,000 | £203,350 | 22,077 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £195,116 | 25,180 |
| 2003 | £87,500 | £157,432 | 26,452 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £128,628 | 25,994 |
| 2001 | £59,500 | £111,714 | 23,573 |
| 2000 | £55,500 | £106,375 | 21,527 |
| 1999 | £54,000 | £105,106 | 20,817 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £100,543 | 19,465 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £98,142 | 19,119 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £95,776 | 17,309 |
| 1995 | £44,500 | £94,477 | 14,826 |
In cash terms the typical NE home went from £44,500 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 85%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−5.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.8% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
NE recorded 15,017 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 24,701 sales a year before the financial crisis and 17,303 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
NE falls under Northumberland, the local authority covering most of the NE area (parts fall under Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £679 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £483 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,107, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £175,000 median sold price, £679 a month is £8,148 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every NE district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE44 Riding Mill, Broomhaugh | £650,000 | +81% | 17 |
| NE45 Corbridge | £557,500 | +43% | 17 |
| NE69 Bamburgh | £530,800 | +36% | 12 |
| NE43 Stocksfield | £515,000 | +77% | 7 |
| NE18 Stamfordham, Dalton | £455,000 | -1% | 15 |
| NE20 Ponteland | £380,000 | -14% | 44 |
| NE67 Chathill, Beadnell | £343,800 | +21% | 38 |
| NE47 Acomb, Hexhamshire | £307,000 | +15% | 17 |
| NE26 Whitley Bay, Seaton Sluice | £295,000 | +7% | 41 |
| NE46 Hexham | £294,800 | +8% | 48 |
| NE3 Gosforth, Fawdon | £275,000 | +31% | 197 |
| NE2 City Centre, Jesmond | £250,000 | +2% | 77 |
| NE36 East Boldon, West Boldon | £250,000 | +17% | 23 |
| NE41 Wylam | £250,000 | -9% | 10 |
| NE66 Alnwick, Shilbottle | £250,000 | +2% | 65 |
| NE30 Marden, Tynemouth | £248,000 | +8% | 79 |
| NE25 Monkseaton, Earsdon | £245,000 | +15% | 91 |
| NE65 Amble, Coquet Valley | £243,000 | +10% | 93 |
| NE61 Morpeth, Tranwell | £242,500 | +21% | 158 |
| NE13 Newcastle International Airport, Wideopen | £240,000 | +0% | 122 |
| NE68 Seahouses | £240,000 | -3% | 13 |
| NE7 Heaton, Gosforth | £235,000 | +7% | 62 |
| NE27 Shiremoor, West Allotment | £230,000 | +22% | 67 |
| NE70 Belford | £230,000 | -4% | 7 |
| NE49 Haltwhistle | £217,500 | +67% | 12 |
| NE48 Falstone, Kielder | £202,000 | +17% | 11 |
| NE71 Wooler | £200,000 | +28% | 7 |
| NE12 Longbenton, Killingworth | £196,200 | +17% | 138 |
| NE23 Cramlington, Seghill | £180,000 | +7% | 149 |
| NE40 Ryton, Crawcrook | £175,000 | +6% | 61 |
| NE6 Heaton, Byker | £171,000 | +28% | 152 |
| NE29 North Shields, Royal Quays | £170,200 | +22% | 106 |
| NE19 Byrness, Otterburn | £170,000 | -29% | 7 |
| NE22 Bedlington, Hartford Bridge | £170,000 | +32% | 63 |
| NE5 Blakelaw, Cowgate | £168,800 | +8% | 174 |
| NE16 Whickham, Sunniside | £165,000 | -10% | 78 |
| NE9 Low Fell, Springwell | £163,200 | +6% | 138 |
| NE42 Prudhoe | £162,000 | -7% | 45 |
| NE11 Dunston, Kibblesworth | £160,000 | +28% | 61 |
| NE34 Harton, Horsley Hill | £160,000 | +19% | 123 |
| NE15 Lemington, Throckley | £159,000 | +3% | 122 |
| NE1 City Centre, Newcastle Quayside | £154,800 | -8% | 26 |
| NE38 Town Centre, Oxclose | £154,000 | +12% | 86 |
| NE35 Boldon Colliery | £152,800 | +12% | 24 |
| NE21 Blaydon, Winlaton | £150,000 | +3% | 69 |
| NE31 Hebburn | £150,000 | +3% | 97 |
| NE28 Walker, Battle Hill | £147,500 | +13% | 150 |
| NE39 Rowlands Gill, High Spen | £147,000 | -16% | 39 |
| NE24 Blyth, Newsham | £143,000 | +10% | 151 |
| NE10 Felling, Whitehills Estate | £140,200 | +14% | 92 |
| NE62 Scotland Gate, Guidepost | £140,000 | +43% | 24 |
| NE64 Newbiggin-by-the-Sea | £140,000 | +45% | 29 |
| NE32 Jarrow, Fellgate | £137,500 | +12% | 47 |
| NE4 City Centre, Arthurs Hill | £130,000 | -16% | 58 |
| NE8 Gateshead Quayside, Gateshead Town | £125,000 | +7% | 130 |
| NE63 Ashington | £125,000 | +29% | 135 |
| NE37 Usworth, Sulgrave | £115,000 | +3% | 60 |
| NE33 Town Centre, Deans | £100,000 | +4% | 118 |
| NE17 Chopwell, Western Chopwell Wood | £91,800 | +6% | 18 |
See every individual NE sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference NE price page. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.