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Heaton market report NE6, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE6 (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: 20,342 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE6 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical NE6 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) home changed hands for £177,000 in 2026 (median of 178 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier), with the mean at £201,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,342 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
NE6 is the postcode district covering Heaton, Byker, Walker in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where NE6 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 178 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NE6 home went for £177,000. The mean is £201,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in NE6
The last five years of sales put NE6 at roughly £2,120 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE6 trades 38% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NE6 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £177,000 | £177,000 | 178 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 537 |
| 2024 | £166,800 | £177,343 | 474 |
| 2023 | £160,000 | £175,801 | 505 |
| 2022 | £141,200 | £165,573 | 476 |
| 2021 | £138,000 | £174,726 | 582 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 464 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 435 |
| 2018 | £129,000 | £171,959 | 492 |
| 2017 | £123,000 | £167,760 | 628 |
| 2016 | £127,800 | £178,793 | 658 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 554 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 535 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 428 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 364 |
| 2011 | £109,500 | £165,303 | 368 |
| 2010 | £112,500 | £176,429 | 338 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 400 |
| 2008 | £116,200 | £190,476 | 467 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 1,021 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 1,050 |
| 2005 | £101,500 | £180,629 | 958 |
| 2004 | £96,000 | £174,355 | 976 |
| 2003 | £82,500 | £151,985 | 975 |
| 2002 | £65,500 | £123,238 | 998 |
| 2001 | £52,600 | £101,121 | 968 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 929 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 842 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 787 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 781 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 683 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 491 |
In cash terms the typical NE6 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £177,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 114%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE6 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 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.0%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £368,900 against £165,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, NE6
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 | £368,900 (2025) | – | 492 |
| Semi-detached | £214,000 | 42 | 3,604 |
| Terraced | £168,500 | 76 | 7,322 |
| Flats | £153,600 | 56 | 8,918 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in NE6
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
NE6 recorded 413 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 984 sales a year before the financial crisis and 434 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around NE6
For renting purposes NE6 sits in Newcastle upon Tyne. The ONS average private rent there is £1,204 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £806 a month here against £1,825 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Newcastle upon Tyne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £177,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,204 a month (£14,448 a year) works out at a 8.2% 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.
What people ask about NE6 (Heaton)
Are property prices falling in NE6 (Heaton)?
Is NE6 (Heaton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE6 (Heaton)?
What happens to NE6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in NE6 now
Everything above is what homes in NE6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the NE6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 15% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Benfield Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Benfield Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Heaton Park Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
NE6 ranks 9 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.
Five-year change in the median, NE area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside NE6, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| NE6 5 | £220,000 | 78 |
How NE6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE6 itself, which ranks 34 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% |
| NE6 (this report) | £177,000 | +28% |
Selling a home in NE6? Price it on the evidence
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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.