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Gateshead Quayside market report NE8, Gateshead
The standing NE8 (Gateshead Quayside) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 17,186 registered sales in NE8 (Gateshead) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NE8 (Gateshead) came in at £150,000, out of 150 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £154,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 17,186 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NE8 is a postcode district covering Gateshead Quayside, Gateshead Town, Bensham in Gateshead. 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 NE8 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.
NE8 sold prices: where the market stands
The NE8 median stands at £150,000 for 2026, built from 150 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £154,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in NE8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NE8 sales average about £1,800 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NE8 sits 47% below the national market.
NE8's median sold price, 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 | £150,000 | £150,000 | 150 |
| 2025 | £141,000 | £144,372 | 327 |
| 2024 | £136,000 | £144,596 | 363 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 410 |
| 2022 | £132,000 | £154,785 | 511 |
| 2021 | £127,500 | £161,431 | 445 |
| 2020 | £122,000 | £158,298 | 342 |
| 2019 | £117,500 | £154,014 | 363 |
| 2018 | £125,000 | £166,627 | 441 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 439 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 539 |
| 2015 | £122,500 | £173,093 | 447 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 449 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 378 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 367 |
| 2011 | £90,800 | £137,073 | 330 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 315 |
| 2009 | £110,000 | £176,826 | 322 |
| 2008 | £103,500 | £169,658 | 519 |
| 2007 | £108,000 | £183,198 | 1,194 |
| 2006 | £98,000 | £170,115 | 1,048 |
| 2005 | £94,000 | £167,282 | 1,273 |
| 2004 | £81,000 | £147,112 | 1,373 |
| 2003 | £59,000 | £108,692 | 1,220 |
| 2002 | £38,000 | £71,497 | 825 |
| 2001 | £28,000 | £53,829 | 461 |
| 2000 | £26,000 | £51,025 | 471 |
| 1999 | £26,500 | £52,813 | 432 |
| 1998 | £25,000 | £50,464 | 404 |
| 1997 | £24,500 | £50,245 | 353 |
| 1996 | £25,000 | £52,724 | 383 |
| 1995 | £25,000 | £54,346 | 292 |
In cash terms the typical NE8 home went from £25,000 in 1995 to £150,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 176%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NE8 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 (+55.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.2%). 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, 58% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £257,500 against £110,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, NE8
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 | £257,500 (2025) | – | 456 |
| Semi-detached | £163,500 | 26 | 1,693 |
| Terraced | £180,000 | 49 | 5,141 |
| Flats | £115,000 | 71 | 9,889 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 281 sales completed in NE8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 983 sales a year before the financial crisis and 352 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 kind of market NE8 is
In its area's price order NE8 comes 51 of 59, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What homes rent for around NE8
The local authority for NE8 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.
£790 a month is £9,480 a year, which against the £150,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. 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.
Asked and answered: NE8 (Gateshead Quayside)
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What happens to NE8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in NE8 now
Everything above is what homes in NE8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 20 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% below the NE8 median sold price.
45% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Curzon Place, Gateshead, Tyne and Wea...
- Willbrook House, gateshead, Tyne and ...
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 NE8 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NE area. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
NE8 ranks 19 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NE8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NE8 1 | £125,000 | 21 |
| NE8 2 | £161,000 | 48 |
| NE8 3 | £158,000 | 26 |
| NE8 4 | £130,000 | 55 |
How NE8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE8 itself, which ranks 51 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% |
| NE8 (this report) | £150,000 | +18% |
Selling a home in NE8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE8'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.
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The live map plots every individual NE8 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.
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.