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Crawcrook market report NE40 4, Ryton
The NE40 4 (Crawcrook) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,798 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE40 4 (Ryton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NE40 4 (Ryton) came in at £155,900, out of 52 registered, down 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £186,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,050 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,798 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NE40 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NE40 (Ryton). 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 NE40 4 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 NE40 4
The NE40 4 median stands at £155,900 for 2026, built from 52 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £186,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
NE40 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of NE40 4 home has cost about £2,050 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving NE40 4 45% below the national figure.
NE40 4'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 | £155,900 | £155,900 | 52 |
| 2025 | £162,000 | £165,874 | 145 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 121 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 106 |
| 2022 | £155,000 | £181,755 | 177 |
| 2021 | £167,500 | £212,077 | 227 |
| 2020 | £168,000 | £217,983 | 175 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 205 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 199 |
| 2017 | £117,000 | £159,576 | 121 |
| 2016 | £111,000 | £155,290 | 109 |
| 2015 | £116,000 | £163,908 | 97 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 118 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 139 |
| 2012 | £108,500 | £159,698 | 70 |
| 2011 | £104,500 | £157,755 | 70 |
| 2010 | £113,200 | £177,527 | 98 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 73 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 75 |
| 2007 | £120,900 | £205,080 | 198 |
| 2006 | £118,000 | £204,833 | 207 |
| 2005 | £106,000 | £188,637 | 165 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 154 |
| 2003 | £76,500 | £140,932 | 224 |
| 2002 | £57,000 | £107,245 | 251 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 249 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 168 |
| 1999 | £38,800 | £77,326 | 176 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 168 |
| 1997 | £41,200 | £84,493 | 172 |
| 1996 | £38,500 | £81,195 | 149 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical NE40 4 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £155,900 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 89%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE40 4 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 (+34.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−16.0%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 52 sales completed in NE40 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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 NE40 4 is
This is a thin market: 52 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. Against the NE40 district median, NE40 4 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around NE40 4
The local authority for NE40 4 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.
Against the £155,900 median purchase price, a rent of £790 a month (£9,480 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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: NE40 4 (Crawcrook)
Is NE40 4 (Crawcrook) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE40 4 (Crawcrook)?
Are property prices falling in NE40 4 (Crawcrook)?
Will NE40 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in NE40 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 6 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE40 district, not just NE40 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
80% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Tyne Gardens, Ryton, Tyne and Wear
- Broomfield Terrace, Crawcrook
- Coronation Street, Ryton, NE40, Ryton
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every NE40 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.
Moving up a bedroom in NE: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
NE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NE40
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE40, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE40 3 | £212,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full NE40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE40 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NE40 4? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NE40 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the NE40 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NE40 4 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 NE40 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NE40 4 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.
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.