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Newcastle-under-Lyme market report ST5 8, Newcastle
The ST5 8 (Newcastle-under-Lyme) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,516 HM Land Registry entries for ST5 8 (Newcastle), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ST5 8 (Newcastle) came in at £180,000, out of 65 registered, up 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £197,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,516 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ST5 8 is one sector of ST5 (Newcastle): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ST5 8 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.
ST5 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 65 registered 2026 sales in ST5 8 and the middle price, the median, is £180,000. The mean lands at £197,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in ST5 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ST5 8 sales average about £2,140 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 ST5 8 37% below the country at large.
The price of a typical ST5 8 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £198,800 | £203,554 | 164 |
| 2024 | £185,000 | £196,693 | 163 |
| 2023 | £157,200 | £172,724 | 136 |
| 2022 | £158,800 | £186,211 | 166 |
| 2021 | £148,000 | £187,387 | 191 |
| 2020 | £131,800 | £171,013 | 142 |
| 2019 | £126,800 | £166,204 | 174 |
| 2018 | £119,000 | £158,629 | 171 |
| 2017 | £134,000 | £182,763 | 159 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 183 |
| 2015 | £114,500 | £161,789 | 169 |
| 2014 | £112,800 | £160,027 | 162 |
| 2013 | £121,000 | £174,107 | 125 |
| 2012 | £107,500 | £158,227 | 133 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 112 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 138 |
| 2009 | £116,500 | £187,275 | 80 |
| 2008 | £109,000 | £178,674 | 118 |
| 2007 | £119,500 | £202,705 | 206 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 261 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 183 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 262 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 242 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 249 |
| 2001 | £52,400 | £100,736 | 206 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 228 |
| 1999 | £45,500 | £90,679 | 213 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 171 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 199 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 189 |
| 1995 | £40,200 | £87,389 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical ST5 8 home went from £40,200 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 106%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2025; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2025 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ST5 8 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−11.2%). 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) | −9.5% | −11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 65 sales completed in ST5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
The rental side of ST5 8
For renting purposes ST5 8 sits in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The ONS average private rent there is £826 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £574 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,301, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Newcastle-under-Lyme
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £826 a month (£9,912 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
The shape of the ST5 8 market
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.
Asked and answered: ST5 8 (Newcastle-under-Lyme)
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Are ST5 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 ST5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 86 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ST5 district, not just ST5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every ST5 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.
What another bedroom costs in ST
Real sold prices by size across the ST area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £240,000 | £334,950 (+40%) | £500,000 (+49%) | £687,500 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £165,000 | £180,000 (+9%) | £228,000 (+27%) | £310,000 (+36%) | £402,500 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £132,000 | £126,000 (-5%) | £165,000 (+31%) | £235,000 (+42%) | £360,000 (+53%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £125,000 (+32%) | £185,000 (+48%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the ST area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the ST area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ST5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ST5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ST5 0 | £175,000 | 54 |
| ST5 1 | £112,000 | 15 |
| ST5 2 | £227,500 | 42 |
| ST5 3 | £240,000 | 37 |
| ST5 4 | £224,000 | 42 |
| ST5 5 | £382,500 | 14 |
| ST5 6 | £164,200 | 48 |
| ST5 7 | £190,000 | 54 |
| ST5 9 | £185,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full ST5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ST5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ST5 8? 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 ST5 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ST5 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ST5 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ST5 8.
Go deeper
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See every individual ST5 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.