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Seaton Sluice market report NE26 4, Whitley Bay

The NE26 4 (Seaton Sluice) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,188 registered sales in NE26 4 (Whitley Bay) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the 2026 median for NE26 4 (Whitley Bay) is £262,500, from 16 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £300,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,188 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

NE26 4 is one sector of NE26 (Whitley Bay): 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.

What buyers actually paid in NE26 4

In the NE26 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £262,500, from 16 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £300,800, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

House prices per square metre in NE26 4

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NE26 4 costs about £2,930 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, NE26 4 runs 8% below it.

In cash terms the typical NE26 4 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £262,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 112%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2025, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2025 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+58.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What NE26 4 has returned, per year

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.

How many homes change hands in NE26 4

NE26 4 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 86 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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.

The shape of the NE26 4 market

This is a thin market: 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Within NE26, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.

What homes rent for around NE26 4

The local authority for NE26 4 is Northumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.

Set against the £262,500 median sold price, £679 a month is £8,148 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.

What people ask about NE26 4 (Seaton Sluice)

What happens to NE26 4 prices now?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% 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.

NE26's current homes for sale

Moving up a bedroom in NE: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in NE26

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE26, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full NE26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE26 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in NE26 4: what the record supports

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NE26 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every NE26 4 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.