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Harton market report NE34, South Shields
The NE34 (Harton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 17,615 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in NE34 (South Shields) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in NE34 (South Shields) sold for £166,000 in 2026, the median of 176 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £184,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,980 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 17,615 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district NE34 covering Harton, Horsley Hill, Marsden sits in South Shields. 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 NE34 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.
Today's NE34 prices, from the sold record
Take the 176 registered 2026 sales in NE34 and the middle price, the median, is £166,000. The mean lands at £184,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in NE34
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NE34 costs about £1,980 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, NE34 runs 42% below it.
NE34's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £166,000 | £166,000 | 176 |
| 2025 | £170,000 | £174,065 | 522 |
| 2024 | £155,000 | £164,797 | 460 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 443 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 582 |
| 2021 | £143,000 | £181,056 | 631 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 463 |
| 2019 | £132,500 | £173,676 | 492 |
| 2018 | £132,200 | £176,225 | 520 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 539 |
| 2016 | £127,500 | £178,374 | 599 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 584 |
| 2014 | £128,000 | £181,590 | 556 |
| 2013 | £115,000 | £165,474 | 525 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 404 |
| 2011 | £104,500 | £157,755 | 446 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 371 |
| 2009 | £111,000 | £178,433 | 353 |
| 2008 | £110,000 | £180,313 | 443 |
| 2007 | £113,500 | £192,528 | 887 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 792 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 621 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 705 |
| 2003 | £72,700 | £133,931 | 736 |
| 2002 | £54,200 | £101,977 | 732 |
| 2001 | £51,000 | £98,045 | 677 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 612 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 555 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 524 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 629 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 559 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 477 |
In cash terms the typical NE34 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £166,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 77%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NE34 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 2003 (+34.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−5.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £342,000 against £95,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, NE34
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 | £342,000 | 15 | 1,512 |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | 93 | 8,528 |
| Terraced | £129,000 | 53 | 5,919 |
| Flats | £95,000 | 15 | 1,656 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 368 NE34 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 720 sales a year before the financial crisis and 437 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around NE34
NE34 falls under South Tyneside, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £726 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £166,000 median sold price, £726 a month is £8,712 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
NE34 (Harton): the questions that come up
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
NE34's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in NE34 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 16 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the NE34 median sold price.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every NE34 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight 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
NE34 ranks 24 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside NE34, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE34 0 | £152,800 | 30 |
| NE34 6 | £210,000 | 37 |
| NE34 7 | £180,000 | 37 |
| NE34 8 | £151,200 | 42 |
| NE34 9 | £132,000 | 30 |
How NE34 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE34 itself, which ranks 39 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% |
| NE34 (this report) | £166,000 | +16% |
Selling a home in NE34? 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 NE34, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE34's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE34 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.