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Whickham market report NE16, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE16 (Whickham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 13,349 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE16 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for NE16 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) is £160,000, from 129 registered sales, down 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £197,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 13,349 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district NE16 covering Whickham, Sunniside, Burnopfield sits in Newcastle Upon Tyne. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where NE16 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 NE16 homes really sell for
Across 129 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NE16 home went for £160,000. The mean is £197,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
NE16 prices by floor area
Per square metre, NE16 homes have averaged around £2,340 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NE16 sits 44% below the national market.
The price of a typical NE16 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 129 |
| 2025 | £196,200 | £200,892 | 410 |
| 2024 | £206,200 | £219,233 | 400 |
| 2023 | £205,500 | £225,794 | 328 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 425 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 469 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 347 |
| 2019 | £167,200 | £219,159 | 366 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 359 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 373 |
| 2016 | £149,500 | £209,152 | 384 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 379 |
| 2014 | £151,800 | £215,355 | 390 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 357 |
| 2012 | £149,800 | £220,487 | 264 |
| 2011 | £141,500 | £213,611 | 266 |
| 2010 | £149,200 | £233,984 | 258 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 299 |
| 2008 | £136,000 | £222,933 | 299 |
| 2007 | £140,500 | £238,327 | 630 |
| 2006 | £134,000 | £232,607 | 551 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 471 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 592 |
| 2003 | £97,500 | £179,619 | 651 |
| 2002 | £87,600 | £164,819 | 636 |
| 2001 | £73,800 | £141,877 | 570 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 525 |
| 1999 | £59,600 | £118,780 | 480 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 504 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 447 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 432 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 358 |
In cash terms the typical NE16 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 3.1 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 44%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2009. The market now sits about 34% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE16 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 2004 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.5% | −20.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.4% | −7.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £305,000 against £119,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, NE16
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £305,000 | 19 | 2,831 |
| Semi-detached | £188,000 | 50 | 4,599 |
| Terraced | £151,800 | 46 | 4,468 |
| Flats | £119,000 | 14 | 1,451 |
How many homes change hands in NE16
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
NE16 recorded 313 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 578 sales a year before the financial crisis and 338 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.
How NE16 trades
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 59 measurable districts of its area, NE16 ranks 47 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of NE16
For renting purposes NE16 sits in Gateshead. The ONS average private rent there is £790 a month (May 2026). 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 £160,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. 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.
Asked and answered: NE16 (Whickham)
Is NE16 (Whickham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE16 (Whickham)?
Are property prices falling in NE16 (Whickham)?
Will NE16 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 33% 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: NE prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
NE16 ranks 58 of 59 in the NE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the NE area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NE16, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE16 3 | £130,500 | 14 |
| NE16 4 | £156,000 | 32 |
| NE16 5 | £229,800 | 48 |
| NE16 6 | £157,000 | 35 |
How NE16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE16 itself, which ranks 47 of 59 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NE44 | £692,500 | +57% |
| NE69 | £617,500 | +2% |
| NE45 | £557,500 | +35% |
| NE20 | £472,500 | +8% |
| NE18 | £375,000 | +58% |
| NE67 | £335,000 | +4% |
| NE26 | £330,000 | +17% |
| NE46 | £297,200 | +8% |
| NE3 | £290,000 | +26% |
| NE47 | £290,000 | +18% |
| NE43 | £288,500 | -10% |
| NE30 | £280,000 | +18% |
| NE41 | £267,800 | -1% |
| NE2 | £265,800 | +12% |
| NE19 | £265,000 | +8% |
| NE25 | £260,000 | +18% |
| NE66 | £252,500 | +3% |
| NE65 | £251,500 | +12% |
| NE36 | £247,500 | +15% |
| NE27 | £241,200 | +24% |
| NE61 | £240,000 | +14% |
| NE68 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE70 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE16 (this report) | £160,000 | -16% |
Selling a home in NE16? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE16 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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The live map plots every individual NE16 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.