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Heaton market report NE6 5, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE6 5 (Heaton) 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: 10,260 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE6 5 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for NE6 5 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) is £220,000, from 78 registered sales, up 47% on five years earlier; the mean is £264,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,460 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,260 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 NE6 5 is a single group of streets within NE6 (Newcastle Upon Tyne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NE6 5 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.
NE6 5 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 78 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NE6 5 home went for £220,000. The mean is £264,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
NE6 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of NE6 5 home has cost about £2,460 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NE6 5 sits 23% below the national market.
A typical NE6 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 78 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 282 |
| 2024 | £194,000 | £206,262 | 234 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 255 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 227 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 298 |
| 2020 | £142,000 | £184,248 | 205 |
| 2019 | £143,000 | £187,439 | 219 |
| 2018 | £139,500 | £185,956 | 254 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 241 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 309 |
| 2015 | £138,500 | £195,701 | 245 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 277 |
| 2013 | £121,000 | £174,107 | 194 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 167 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 151 |
| 2010 | £133,800 | £209,833 | 160 |
| 2009 | £115,000 | £184,863 | 205 |
| 2008 | £134,000 | £219,654 | 190 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 492 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 511 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 454 |
| 2004 | £124,500 | £226,116 | 418 |
| 2003 | £96,000 | £176,855 | 483 |
| 2002 | £75,200 | £141,488 | 542 |
| 2001 | £56,500 | £108,618 | 544 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 519 |
| 1999 | £46,500 | £92,672 | 491 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 475 |
| 1997 | £40,200 | £82,442 | 502 |
| 1996 | £38,200 | £80,562 | 365 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 273 |
In cash terms the typical NE6 5 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 156%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NE6 5 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 2002 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.0% | +3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 78 NE6 5 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 495 sales a year before the financial crisis and 215 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.
The shape of the NE6 5 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the NE6 district median, NE6 5 sits 24% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around NE6 5
For renting purposes NE6 5 sits in Newcastle upon Tyne. The ONS average private rent there is £1,204 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £806 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,825 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Newcastle upon Tyne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,204 a month is £14,448 a year, which against the £220,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about NE6 5 (Heaton)
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Searches that land here, answered
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, NE6 5DY among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
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.
What happens to NE6 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 47% over five years in cash and up 16% 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.
What is for sale in NE6 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE6 district, not just NE6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Benfield Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6, Newcastle upon Tyne
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- Heaton Park Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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 NE6 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.
What another bedroom costs in NE
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
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 NE6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NE6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE6 1 | £188,000 | 13 |
| NE6 2 | £110,000 | 29 |
| NE6 3 | £120,800 | 12 |
| NE6 4 | £185,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full NE6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in NE6 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE6 5's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE6 5.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NE6 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NE6 5 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.