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Whickham market report NE16 5, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The standing NE16 5 (Whickham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,464 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE16 5 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in NE16 5 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) sold for £229,800 in 2026, the median of 48 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £240,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,660 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,464 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NE16 5 is one sector of NE16 (Newcastle Upon Tyne): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NE16 5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in NE16 5 sells for
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in NE16 5 and the middle price, the median, is £229,800. The mean lands at £240,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in NE16 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NE16 5 costs about £2,660 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NE16 5 runs 19% below it.
A typical NE16 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £229,800 | £229,800 | 48 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 183 |
| 2024 | £252,500 | £268,459 | 169 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 149 |
| 2022 | £220,000 | £257,975 | 129 |
| 2021 | £242,200 | £306,656 | 211 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 159 |
| 2019 | £193,000 | £252,977 | 155 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 152 |
| 2017 | £176,500 | £240,728 | 144 |
| 2016 | £166,500 | £232,935 | 150 |
| 2015 | £179,000 | £252,927 | 142 |
| 2014 | £172,000 | £244,012 | 165 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 157 |
| 2012 | £157,000 | £231,084 | 119 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 110 |
| 2010 | £172,500 | £270,524 | 85 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 124 |
| 2008 | £162,000 | £265,552 | 135 |
| 2007 | £175,200 | £297,188 | 240 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 198 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 185 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 227 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 222 |
| 2002 | £109,000 | £205,083 | 247 |
| 2001 | £76,000 | £146,106 | 221 |
| 2000 | £75,700 | £148,561 | 182 |
| 1999 | £67,800 | £135,122 | 229 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 222 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 204 |
| 1996 | £62,600 | £132,021 | 218 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 183 |
In cash terms the typical NE16 5 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £229,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 92%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE16 5 median
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 2002 (+43.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NE16 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.1% | −2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 48 NE16 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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.
What tenants pay around NE16 5
The local authority for NE16 5 is Gateshead, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £581 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,179, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Gateshead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £229,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the NE16 5 market
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NE16 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the NE16 district median, NE16 5 sits 44% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about NE16 5 (Whickham)
Are property prices falling in NE16 5 (Whickham)?
Is NE16 5 (Whickham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE16 5 (Whickham)?
Will NE16 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
Moving up a bedroom in NE: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NE area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £239,250 | £322,500 (+35%) | £498,100 (+54%) | £700,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £157,000 | £168,000 (+7%) | £216,000 (+29%) | £335,000 (+55%) | £521,000 (+56%) |
| Terraced | £127,500 | £136,000 (+7%) | £170,000 (+25%) | £282,250 (+66%) | £393,500 (+39%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £127,980 (+35%) | £190,000 (+48%) | £340,000 (+79%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NE area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NE16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE16 3 | £130,500 | 14 |
| NE16 4 | £156,000 | 32 |
| NE16 6 | £157,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full NE16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NE16 5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE16 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NE16 5.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every NE16 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.