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Seahouses market report NE68
The standing NE68 (Seahouses) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,682 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE68 (Seahouses) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to June 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NE68 (Seahouses) is £240,000, from 11 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £262,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,682 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NE68 is a postcode district covering Seahouses in Seahouses. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NE68 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 a home in NE68 sells for
The 2026 median for NE68 is £240,000, taken from 11 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £262,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
NE68 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NE68 sales average about £3,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NE68 16% below the country at large.
A typical NE68 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 11 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 50 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 35 |
| 2023 | £243,800 | £267,877 | 42 |
| 2022 | £274,500 | £321,883 | 38 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 57 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 61 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 58 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 42 |
| 2017 | £177,100 | £241,547 | 38 |
| 2016 | £192,500 | £269,309 | 60 |
| 2015 | £161,500 | £228,200 | 51 |
| 2014 | £168,500 | £239,047 | 52 |
| 2013 | £198,000 | £284,902 | 52 |
| 2012 | £168,800 | £248,453 | 46 |
| 2011 | £202,500 | £305,697 | 52 |
| 2010 | £209,500 | £328,550 | 32 |
| 2009 | £170,200 | £273,598 | 62 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 53 |
| 2007 | £177,500 | £301,089 | 74 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 57 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 51 |
| 2004 | £139,500 | £253,359 | 129 |
| 2003 | £92,500 | £170,407 | 91 |
| 2002 | £75,000 | £141,112 | 69 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 60 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 43 |
| 1999 | £59,700 | £118,979 | 41 |
| 1998 | £57,000 | £115,059 | 49 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 49 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 39 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 38 |
In cash terms the typical NE68 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 41% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE68 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 2004 (+50.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−31.9%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. In 2022, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £395,000 against £280,000 for a flat, a 41% premium.
Median by property type, NE68
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 | £360,000 (2025) | – | 499 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 (2025) | – | 435 |
| Terraced | £200,000 | 5 | 609 |
| Flats | £280,000 (2022) | – | 83 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.4% | −11.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in NE68
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
The register shows 46 NE68 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 72 sales a year before the financial crisis and 35 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.
The shape of the NE68 market
This is a thin market: 46 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.
Rents around NE68
The local authority for NE68 is Northumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £679 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,107 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £679 a month (£8,148 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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: NE68 (Seahouses)
Is NE68 (Seahouses) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE68 (Seahouses)?
Are property prices falling in NE68 (Seahouses)?
What happens to NE68 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in NE68 today
Everything above is what homes in NE68 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 6 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the NE68 median sold price.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 NE68 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
NE68 ranks 50 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 NE68, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE68 7 | £240,000 | 11 |
How NE68 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NE area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE70 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE71 | £240,000 | +54% |
Selling in NE68? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE68, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE68's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE68 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.