County Durham
NE17 house prices in County Durham
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for County Durham, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£98,500
Range £42,000–£216,400 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
- 12-month change
- +0.8%
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 May 2024 and 14 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in NE17: the typical (median) sold price is £98,500, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). Over the last twelve months the local median is up 0.8%, comparing 78 sales with 140, so a handful of homes can swing it. NE17 is a quiet market, with about 9 recorded sales a month. By property type, 60% were terraced homes (typically £64,500) and 19% were semi-detached homes (typically £155,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Across the 12 most recently sold NE17 postcodes we sampled, area deprivation has a median of decile 2 of 10, where 10 is the least deprived.
Source: Deprivation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on NE17: a quiet market, so take your time
NE17 sees just 9 sales a month, at a median above last year’s, which says something about those homes and rather less about yours.
If you are thinking of selling, a spread from £42,000 to £216,400 makes £98,500 a poor guide to any one home, so price from sold homes that match yours in type and size; sales are too rare here to hurry, so give the price a local agent’s sense-check; if certainty matters more than price, a quick cash sale usually means accepting about 70–85% of market value (a rough guide, not a quote).
Sell houseIf you are looking to buy, typical prices in NE17 sit well below the UK average, but prices are rising, so check that an asking price is not racing ahead of recent sold homes.
Our checklist before an offer: what has been applied for nearby (109 applications on record within 500 m), whether a new-build premium is baked into the price and whether the home is at risk of flooding, plus the title, which your conveyancer should review.
For what the averages cannot tell you, the free NE17 OfferCheck brings flood, crime, planning and council tax together.
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At a glance
NE17 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£98,500
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
9.3
Across 250 sales
12-month change
+0.8%
+0.8% from last year
Local median
Freehold sales
95%
Of recorded sales
The data, honestly
House prices in NE17
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in NE17 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £194,995, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £39,999.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 43 | £194,995 | £174,995–£269,700 |
| Semi-detached | 45 | £155,000 | £98,400–£196,000 |
| Terraced | 144 | £64,500 | £40,000–£154,100 |
| Flat / maisonette | 7 | £39,999 | £37,199–£68,000 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 May 2024 and 14 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in NE17
The quarterly typical price fell 26.1%, from £102,500 in Q4 2024 (34 sales) to £75,700 in Q3 2026 (4 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | £102,500 | 34 |
| Q1 2025 | £110,000 | 28 |
| Q2 2025 | £60,000 | 39 |
| Q3 2025 | £90,000 | 31 |
| Q4 2025 | £103,500 | 24 |
| Q1 2026 | £95,000 | 15 |
| Q2 2026 | £100,000 | 17 |
| Q3 2026 | £75,700 | 4 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 May 2024 and 14 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of NE17 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most NE17 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £42,000 and £216,400, around a typical £98,500.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 May 2024 and 14 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in NE17
Terraced homes were 60% of recorded sales (144 of 239). 95% of sales were freehold and 5% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached18%
- Semi-detached19%
- Terraced60%
- Flat / maisonette3%
Tenure
- Freehold95%
- Leasehold5%
See the figures
238 freehold (95%) and 12 leasehold (5%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in NE17, including 38 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 May 2024 and 14 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
6, FORTH STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£75,000 (2025)£75,000 (2025)0% over 0.8 yrs (0%/yr)
18, GEORGE CLOSE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£184,995 (2025)£200,000 (2025)+8.1% over 0.6 yrs (+12.9%/yr)
CHOPWELL HOTEL, DERWENT STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£115,000 (2024)£100,000 (2025)-13% over 0.6 yrs (-21.8%/yr)
9, GILL WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£238,000 (2024)£190,000 (2025)-20.2% over 0.7 yrs (-26%/yr)
66 - 68, DERWENT STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£94,500 (2024)£110,000 (2025)+16.4% over 0.5 yrs (+32.7%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where NE17 sits in County Durham
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in NE17
19, LANGDALE TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Semi-detached · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£154,000
6, WEAR STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Terraced · Freehold · 14 Aug 2026
£39,999
26, MERSEY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Terraced · Freehold · 29 Jul 2026
£43,000
9, ARMONSIDE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Terraced · Freehold · 24 Jul 2026
£108,400
35, BEECH GROVE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Terraced · Freehold · 26 Jun 2026
£120,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). NE17 includes the Chopwell & Rowlands Gill ward.
In plain English
What the County Durham (NE17) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £194,995 against £64,500 for terraced homes: about 3.0 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £42,000 and £216,400, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (95%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
Only 250 sales sit behind these figures, so they are a rough guide rather than a firm reading.
- 15% of these sales were new builds, which often sell at a premium the first time around and can lift the median above what resale homes make.
- This is a quiet district: only about 9 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 17 May 2024 and 14 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on NE17
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in NE17
We don't hold published band charges for County Durham yet. Your billing authority publishes its own band table each year. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency: check a band on GOV.UK.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities
Schools
Schools near NE17
3
open schools within 3 km, nearest Chopwell Primary School.
All schools
Chopwell Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · NE17 7HS
621 m
Good · 2022
Ebchester CofE Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · DH8 0QB
2.6 km
Good · 2023
High Spen Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · NE39 2BQ
2.8 km
Good · 2012
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the NE17 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 3 open schools within 3 km, 3 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near NE17
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around NE17
109
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 23 September 2026.
Recent applications
Gateshead/DC/26/00132/GPDEPermitted
65 m
Single storey rear extension
Received 2026-02-10 · decided 2026-04-02
Gateshead/DC/26/00025/HHAPermitted
42 m
single storey rear extension
Received 2026-01-14 · decided 2026-02-25
Gateshead/DC/25/00399/FULRejected
458 m
Placement of a 20x8ft standard office container in rear garden to be used as a laser technician business
Received 2025-05-26 · decided 2026-06-22
Gateshead/DC/25/00343/OHLConditions
406 m
Replacement of 30 LV wood poles
Received 2025-04-09 · decided 2025-05-28
Gateshead/DC/24/01163/FULPermitted
127 m
New paving slabs to create footpath on grassed area (Amended plans received 02.05.25)
Received 2024-12-17 · decided 2025-05-09
Gateshead/DC/24/00416/FULPermitted
363 m
Install an air source heat pump for heating purposes
Received 2024-05-21 · decided 2024-07-09
Applications are matched within 500 m of the NE17 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for NE17 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 109 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 23 September 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for NE17
Decile 2 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled NE17 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 1 to decile 6, with a median of decile 2 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
NE17 7TX, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 2 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so NE17 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in NE17: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in NE17 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 241 distinct addresses in the records we hold for NE17. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
19, LANGDALE TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7PW · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£154,000
2026-08-14
6, WEAR STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7BS · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£39,999
2026-08-14
26, MERSEY STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7DF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£43,000
2026-07-29
9, ARMONSIDE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7TX · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£108,400
2026-07-24
35, BEECH GROVE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7TD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-06-26
70, OAKWELL COURT, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7BE · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£268,500
2026-06-19
14, HUMBER STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7DQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£66,000
2026-06-19
25, GILL WAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7BN · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£155,000
2026-06-05
43, PEAR TREE TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7EU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£225,000
2026-06-01
17, SUMMERFIELD TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7PR · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£155,000
2026-06-01
32, BLYTH STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7BX · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£80,000
2026-05-22
19, HOLLINGS TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7LD · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£36,400
2026-05-19
69, VALLEY DENE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7EZ · Detached · Freehold · 2 recorded sales
£168,000
2026-05-18
29, BEECH GROVE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7TD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£100,000
2026-05-15
11, TYNE STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7BP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£71,000
2026-05-08
10, ELIZABETH STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7JJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£88,500
2026-05-06
30, MILL ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7HA · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£187,000
2026-04-27
10, WHITTONSTALL TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7LF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£78,209
2026-04-27
4, HUMBER STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7DQ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£50,000
2026-04-21
19, WHITTONSTALL TERRACE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7LF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£103,000
2026-04-09
33, DERWENT CRESCENT, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7PD · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£99,000
2026-04-08
7, DERWENT VALLEY VILLAS, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7HF · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 recorded sales
£39,999
2026-03-30
3, BROADOAK MEWS, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7PF · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£210,000
2026-03-18
2, TWEED STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE17 7DL · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£57,000
2026-03-13
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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The NE17 report: your questions
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Nearby
Postcode districts near NE17
The closest districts to NE17 by straight-line distance between district centres.
- House prices in NE39 (Rowlands Gill) 2.3 miles
- House prices in NE42 (Prudhoe) 3.7 miles
- House prices in NE40 (Ryton) 4.1 miles
- House prices in DH8 (Consett) 4.1 miles
- House prices in NE43 (Stocksfield) 4.3 miles
- House prices in NE41 (Wylam) 4.4 miles
- House prices in NE21 (Blaydon-on-Tyne) 4.9 miles
- House prices in NE16 (Newcastle upon Tyne) 5.1 miles
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Data sources
Every NE17 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.