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High Spen market report NE39 1, Rowlands Gill
The standing NE39 1 (High Spen) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 1,926 registered sales in NE39 1 (Rowlands Gill) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NE39 1 (Rowlands Gill) is £225,000, from 15 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,640 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,926 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like NE39 1 is a single group of streets within NE39 (Rowlands Gill), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NE39 1 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.
NE39 1 sold prices: where the market stands
15 sales were registered in NE39 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £225,000. The mean works out at £255,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in NE39 1
Per square metre, NE39 1 homes have averaged around £2,640 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NE39 1 runs 21% below it.
NE39 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 51 |
| 2024 | £220,500 | £234,437 | 50 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 43 |
| 2022 | £244,500 | £286,704 | 72 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 83 |
| 2020 | £226,200 | £293,499 | 50 |
| 2019 | £232,500 | £304,752 | 54 |
| 2018 | £209,000 | £278,601 | 58 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 60 |
| 2016 | £181,500 | £253,920 | 56 |
| 2015 | £188,800 | £266,774 | 52 |
| 2014 | £191,000 | £270,967 | 56 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 58 |
| 2012 | £157,500 | £231,820 | 45 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 41 |
| 2010 | £157,700 | £247,314 | 28 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 47 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 37 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 53 |
| 2006 | £191,500 | £332,420 | 72 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 70 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 81 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 99 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 69 |
| 2001 | £88,500 | £170,137 | 81 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 83 |
| 1999 | £76,800 | £153,058 | 96 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 73 |
| 1997 | £70,500 | £144,581 | 66 |
| 1996 | £65,200 | £137,504 | 72 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 55 |
In cash terms the typical NE39 1 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 3.5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 59%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE39 1 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 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NE39 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −26.2% | −28.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −1.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
NE39 1 recorded 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 76 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
Rents around NE39 1
The local authority for NE39 1 is Gateshead, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £581 a month here against £1,179 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Gateshead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £225,000 median sold price, £790 a month is £9,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
The shape of the NE39 1 market
This is a thin market: 15 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. Against the NE39 district median, NE39 1 sits 61% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
NE39 1 (High Spen): the questions that come up
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The questions people bring to NE39 1 (High Spen)
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reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £225,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Are NE39 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in NE39 today
The live side of the market holds 3 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE39 district, not just NE39 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
50% 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 NE39 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: NE prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NE area. 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in NE39
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NE39's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE39 2 | £130,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full NE39 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE39 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in NE39 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE39 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE39 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE39 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE39 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NE39 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NE39 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.