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Low Fell market report NE9 5, Gateshead
The NE9 5 (Low Fell) 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: 5,946 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE9 5 (Gateshead) 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 typical home in NE9 5 (Gateshead) sold for £197,500 in 2026, the median of 54 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £237,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,946 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NE9 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NE9 (Gateshead). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NE9 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.
The going rate for a home in NE9 5
The NE9 5 median stands at £197,500 for 2026, built from 54 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £237,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
NE9 5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NE9 5 sales average about £2,220 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE9 5 trades 31% below the country as a whole.
A typical NE9 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 | £197,500 | £197,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £221,500 | £226,797 | 146 |
| 2024 | £180,200 | £191,590 | 158 |
| 2023 | £206,000 | £226,344 | 139 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 172 |
| 2021 | £197,500 | £250,060 | 191 |
| 2020 | £202,000 | £262,099 | 146 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 145 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 173 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 201 |
| 2016 | £179,000 | £250,423 | 189 |
| 2015 | £176,700 | £249,677 | 202 |
| 2014 | £180,500 | £256,071 | 218 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 181 |
| 2012 | £137,000 | £201,647 | 125 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 133 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 119 |
| 2009 | £132,500 | £212,995 | 123 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 92 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 293 |
| 2006 | £131,000 | £227,399 | 273 |
| 2005 | £139,000 | £247,364 | 251 |
| 2004 | £118,200 | £214,674 | 222 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 200 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 247 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 270 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 217 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 239 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 281 |
| 1997 | £45,100 | £92,491 | 225 |
| 1996 | £43,200 | £91,107 | 180 |
| 1995 | £43,500 | £94,562 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical NE9 5 home went from £43,500 in 1995 to £197,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 109%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE9 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 2004 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−21.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.8% | −12.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in NE9 5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
NE9 5 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 247 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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.
Reading the NE9 5 market
This is a thin market: 54 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. Within NE9, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around NE9 5
NE9 5 falls under Gateshead, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £790 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £581 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,179 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Gateshead
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £197,500 median sold price, £790 a month is £9,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
NE9 5 (Low Fell): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in NE9 5 (Low Fell)?
Are property prices falling in NE9 5 (Low Fell)?
Is NE9 5 (Low Fell) a good place to buy a house?
Where do NE9 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 is for sale in NE9 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 2 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE9 district, not just NE9 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 NE9 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. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NE9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE9 6 | £192,000 | 81 |
| NE9 7 | £152,500 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full NE9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in NE9 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE9 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE9 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE9 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NE9 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NE9 5 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.
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.