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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/north-east

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House prices in the North East

Homes in the North East sold for a median of £175,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 67,056 standard sales.

That makes the North East the cheapest of the nine English regions and Wales, 41% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£175,00067,056 standard sales
Middle half of prices£120,000 to £260,000
Change since 2016+30%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 30%, from £135,000 in 2016 to £175,000 in 2025, less than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in North Tyneside, up 40%, and least in Middlesbrough, up 22%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was North Tyneside, at £215,000, and the cheapest was County Durham, at £145,000.

The next dearest were Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne, and the next cheapest Hartlepool and Sunderland.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

4 of the 12 council areas had a median above £175,000, the figure for the North East as a whole. The most sales were in County Durham (14,074), Northumberland (9,803), Newcastle upon Tyne (6,426), Sunderland (5,970) and North Tyneside (5,733).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. North Tyneside5,733 sales£215,000£2,757+10%
  2. Northumberland9,803 sales£210,000£2,500−1%
  3. Newcastle upon Tyne6,426 sales£207,500£2,586+5%
  4. Stockton-on-Tees5,231 sales£180,000£2,1560%
  5. Darlington3,153 sales£175,000£2,191+6%
  6. Redcar and Cleveland3,379 sales£167,500£2,0990%
  7. South Tyneside3,062 sales£167,500£2,017+6%
  8. Gateshead4,732 sales£165,000£2,067+2%
  9. Middlesbrough2,989 sales£158,000£2,160+3%
  10. Sunderland5,970 sales£157,000£1,962+7%
  11. Hartlepool2,504 sales£156,000£1,957+5%
  12. County Durham14,074 sales£145,000£1,868+6%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in North Tyneside, up 10%, and fell most in Northumberland, down 1%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the North East, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached16,043£300,000£240,000 to £385,000£2,619/m²from 696 sales
Semi-detached23,558£173,000£137,000 to £220,000£2,128/m²from 917 sales
Terraced21,477£130,000£91,000 to £180,000£1,642/m²from 741 sales
Flats and maisonettes5,978£106,000£75,000 to £155,000£1,797/m²from 154 sales

Semi-detached houses and terraced houses sold in similar numbers in the North East, at 35% and 32% of sales.

Leasehold is less common here: 14% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Postcode areas in the North East

About these figures

The 67,056 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the North East by each home's postcode, and 2,508 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.