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Harton market report NE34 8, South Shields
The NE34 8 (Harton) 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: 3,712 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE34 8 (South Shields) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the NE34 8 (South Shields) median at £151,200, up 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £167,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,712 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NE34 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NE34 (South Shields). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NE34 8 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 buyers actually paid in NE34 8
42 sales were registered in NE34 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £151,200. The mean works out at £167,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in NE34 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NE34 8 sales average about £2,000 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NE34 8 runs 47% below it.
NE34 8's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £151,200 | £151,200 | 42 |
| 2025 | £166,200 | £170,174 | 104 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 113 |
| 2023 | £142,700 | £156,792 | 86 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 123 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 149 |
| 2020 | £142,000 | £184,248 | 101 |
| 2019 | £118,000 | £154,670 | 117 |
| 2018 | £121,000 | £161,295 | 107 |
| 2017 | £116,500 | £158,894 | 143 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 184 |
| 2015 | £146,000 | £206,298 | 151 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 138 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 162 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 99 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 128 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 79 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 71 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 99 |
| 2007 | £110,000 | £186,591 | 202 |
| 2006 | £105,000 | £182,267 | 174 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 126 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 130 |
| 2003 | £68,500 | £126,194 | 128 |
| 2002 | £50,400 | £94,827 | 108 |
| 2001 | £46,500 | £89,394 | 120 |
| 2000 | £48,000 | £94,200 | 115 |
| 1999 | £52,000 | £103,633 | 85 |
| 1998 | £45,200 | £91,239 | 74 |
| 1997 | £46,500 | £95,362 | 95 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 89 |
| 1995 | £44,500 | £96,736 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical NE34 8 home went from £44,500 in 1995 to £151,200 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 56%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2011. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE34 8 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 2011 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−17.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NE34 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.0% | −11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in NE34 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 42 NE34 8 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 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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 kind of market NE34 8 is
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NE34 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within NE34, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around NE34 8
For renting purposes NE34 8 sits in South Tyneside. The ONS average private rent there is £726 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £508 a month here against £1,006 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Tyneside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £151,200 median purchase price, a rent of £726 a month (£8,712 a year) works out at a 5.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: NE34 8 (Harton)
Are property prices falling in NE34 8 (Harton)?
Is NE34 8 (Harton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE34 8 (Harton)?
Where do NE34 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in NE34 now
Turning to what is actually available: 16 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE34 district, not just NE34 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every NE34 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NE area, 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NE34
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NE34, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE34 0 | £152,800 | 30 |
| NE34 6 | £210,000 | 37 |
| NE34 7 | £180,000 | 37 |
| NE34 9 | £132,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full NE34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE34 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NE34 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NE34 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the NE34 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NE34 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NE34 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NE34 8 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.
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.