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Wooler market report NE71
The standing NE71 (Wooler) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,321 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE71 (Wooler) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical NE71 (Wooler) home changed hands for £240,000 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, up 54% on five years earlier), with the mean at £233,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,310 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,321 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
NE71 is the postcode district covering Wooler in Wooler. 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 NE71 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.
The going rate for a home in NE71
Across 15 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NE71 home went for £240,000. The mean is £233,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in NE71
The last five years of sales put NE71 at roughly £2,310 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NE71 runs 16% below it.
NE71'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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 51 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 51 |
| 2023 | £220,000 | £241,726 | 63 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 82 |
| 2021 | £156,000 | £197,516 | 72 |
| 2020 | £168,000 | £217,983 | 49 |
| 2019 | £157,000 | £205,789 | 35 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 35 |
| 2017 | £159,200 | £217,133 | 54 |
| 2016 | £147,500 | £206,354 | 36 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 42 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 32 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 31 |
| 2012 | £149,500 | £220,045 | 30 |
| 2011 | £112,000 | £169,077 | 19 |
| 2010 | £152,500 | £239,159 | 32 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 17 |
| 2008 | £198,000 | £324,564 | 27 |
| 2007 | £158,000 | £268,012 | 55 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 49 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 35 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 51 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 37 |
| 2002 | £83,800 | £157,669 | 56 |
| 2001 | £71,000 | £136,494 | 33 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 47 |
| 1999 | £71,500 | £142,496 | 40 |
| 1998 | £48,400 | £97,699 | 47 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 39 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 31 |
| 1995 | £50,800 | £110,431 | 28 |
In cash terms the typical NE71 home went from £50,800 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 117%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE71 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 1999 (+47.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−29.9%). 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) | +11.6% | +9.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +9.0% | +4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.0% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. In 2021, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £267,000 against £141,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, NE71
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 | £310,000 | 5 | 449 |
| Semi-detached | £194,000 | 5 | 468 |
| Terraced | £153,500 (2025) | – | 340 |
| Flats | £141,000 (2021) | – | 16 |
How many homes change hands in NE71
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 47 sales completed in NE71. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 52 sales a year over the last five years against 45 before the financial crisis. 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.
Rents around NE71
The local authority for NE71 is Northumberland, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £679 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £483 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,107, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £679 a month is £8,148 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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 NE71 market
This is a thin market: 47 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. 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.
What people ask about NE71 (Wooler)
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What happens to NE71 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 54% over five years in cash and up 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in NE71 now
Everything above is what homes in NE71 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1 home on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the NE71 median sold price.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every NE71 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
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%) | — |
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
NE71 ranks 3 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.
NE area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside NE71, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NE71 6 | £240,000 | 15 |
How NE71 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 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE70 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE71 (this report) | £240,000 | +54% |
Selling in NE71? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NE71, open the average prices map and zoom from the NE71 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NE71 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE71.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every NE71 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.