Gateshead
NE42 house prices in Gateshead
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Gateshead, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£166,000
Range £90,000–£330,200 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 20 Feb 2025 and 17 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in NE42: the typical (median) sold price is £166,000, well below the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). NE42 is a quiet market, with about 14 recorded sales a month. By property type, 39% were semi-detached homes (typically £155,000) and 32% were terraced homes (typically £130,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £2,716 a year: Gateshead's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Gateshead, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on NE42: a quiet market, so take your time
NE42 has seen just 250 sales since February 2025, which is too few for firm conclusions, so we would lean on individual sold homes rather than any average.
If you are selling, with detached homes at £300,000 and flats at £91,000, the £90,000 to £330,200 spread is really several markets, so benchmark against near-identical homes, not the headline; with so few sales, allow extra time and a local agent’s view; 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 buying, on price, NE42 is well below the UK average, so ask what is behind the lower prices before you assume a bargain.
Before an offer goes in on any NE42 home, look at what has been applied for nearby (437 applications on record within 500 m), long-term flood risk and council tax (Band D is £2,716 a year), and leave the title to your conveyancer.
For what the averages cannot tell you, the free NE42 OfferCheck brings flood, crime, planning and council tax together.
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At a glance
NE42 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£166,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
14.0
Across 250 sales
Council tax, Band D
£2,716
A year
The data, honestly
House prices in NE42
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in NE42 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £300,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £91,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 57 | £300,000 | £193,800–£427,000 |
| Semi-detached | 93 | £155,000 | £97,600–£228,200 |
| Terraced | 75 | £130,000 | £82,140–£235,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 13 | £91,000 | £69,000–£107,500 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 20 Feb 2025 and 17 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in NE42
The quarterly typical price rose 4.5%, from £190,000 in Q1 2025 (25 sales) to £198,500 in Q3 2026 (14 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | £190,000 | 25 |
| Q2 2025 | £149,000 | 36 |
| Q3 2025 | £160,000 | 47 |
| Q4 2025 | £179,000 | 63 |
| Q1 2026 | £155,000 | 39 |
| Q2 2026 | £159,750 | 26 |
| Q3 2026 | £198,500 | 14 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 20 Feb 2025 and 17 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of NE42 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most NE42 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £90,000 and £330,200, around a typical £166,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 20 Feb 2025 and 17 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in NE42
Semi-detached homes were 39% of recorded sales (93 of 238). 83% of sales were freehold and 17% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached24%
- Semi-detached39%
- Terraced32%
- Flat / maisonette5%
Tenure
- Freehold83%
- Leasehold17%
See the figures
208 freehold (83%) and 42 leasehold (17%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in NE42. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 20 Feb 2025 and 17 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.
THE MANORS, ADDERLANE ROAD, PRUDHOE
£86,250 (2025)£90,000 (2026)+4.3% over 0.5 yrs (+8.3%/yr)
8, APPLETREE DRIVE, PRUDHOE
£310,000 (2025)£325,000 (2025)+4.8% over 0.6 yrs (+8.2%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where NE42 sits in Gateshead
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in NE42
34, CASTLE CLOSE, PRUDHOE
Semi-detached · Freehold · 17 Aug 2026
£102,000
15, NEALE STREET, PRUDHOE
Terraced · Freehold · 17 Aug 2026
£120,000
36, HOLLY GROVE, PRUDHOE
Semi-detached · Freehold · 7 Aug 2026
£158,000
11, TENNYSON COURT, PRUDHOE
Detached · Leasehold · 6 Aug 2026
£330,000
24, SCHOOL ROW, PRUDHOE
Terraced · Freehold · 5 Aug 2026
£230,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). NE42 includes the Crawcrook & Greenside ward.
In plain English
What the Gateshead (NE42) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £300,000 against £91,000 for flats: about 3.3 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £90,000 and £330,200, so the median says little about any one home.
- This is a quiet district: only about 14 recorded sales a month.
Only 250 sales sit behind these figures, so they are a rough guide rather than a firm reading.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 20 February 2025 and 17 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 NE42
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 NE42
£2,716
Band D a year in Gateshead, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,811 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,112 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,414 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,716 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,319 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,923 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,526 |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,432 |
These are Gateshead's charges for 2026-27, the authority NE42 falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for Gateshead · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near NE42
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest Prudhoe West Academy.
All schools
Prudhoe West Academy
Primary · Academies · NE42 6HR
121 m
Good · 2015
St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Prudhoe
Primary · Academies · NE42 6EY
353 m
Good · 2023
Highfield Middle School
Secondary · Academies · NE42 6EY
353 m
Good · 2018
Adderlane Academy
Primary · Academies · NE42 5HX
697 m
Good · 2019
Prudhoe Castle First School
Primary · Academies · NE42 6PN
722 m
Good · 2019
Prudhoe Community High School
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · NE42 5LJ
742 m
Good · 2016
Ovingham Middle School
Secondary · Academies · NE42 6DE
1.3 km
Good · 2012
Ovingham Church of England First School
Primary · Academies · NE42 6DE
1.3 km
Good · 2023
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 NE42 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 8 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near NE42
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 NE42
437
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 20 October 2026.
Recent applications
Northumberland/26/03457/CLPROPUndecided
471 m
Certificate of lawfulness of proposed works to convert the existing building into residential accommodation
Received 2026-09-29
Northumberland/26/03370/FULUndecided
258 m
Retrospective application for siting a WashME freestanding launderette
Received 2026-09-23
Northumberland/26/03106/FULUndecided
264 m
Proposed installation of a Street Hub 3 telecom unit
Received 2026-09-03
Northumberland/26/03107/ADEUndecided
264 m
Advertisement consent: 2no digital 75-inch LCD display screens, one on each side of the Street Hub unit
Received 2026-09-03
Northumberland/26/02886/ADEUndecided
262 m
Advertisement consent for 2no. Fascia Non Illuminated, 1no. Projecting Sign Illuminated, 3no. Remote totem sign and 1no. Entrance Vinyl
Received 2026-08-13
Northumberland/26/02593/DISCONPermitted
174 m
Discharge of Condition 3 (BNG) on approved application 26/01024/FUL
Received 2026-07-23 · decided 2026-08-07
Applications are matched within 500 m of the NE42 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 NE42 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 437 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 20 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for NE42
Decile 6 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
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Across the 12 sampled NE42 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 3 to decile 8, with a median of decile 6 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
NE42 6AT, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 6 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 NE42 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in NE42: 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
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in NE42, band by band
Gateshead's council tax for 2026-27 set against the NE42 median sold price of £166,000 across 250 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearGateshead | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £166,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,811 | £151 | 1.09% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £2,112 | £176 | 1.27% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,414 | £201 | 1.45% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,716 | £226 | 1.64% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £3,319 | £277 | 2.00% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,923 | £327 | 2.36% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,526 | £377 | 2.73% |
| H | over £320,000 | £5,432 | £453 | 3.27% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the NE42 median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 250 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Gateshead, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in NE42 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 240 distinct addresses in the records we hold for NE42. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
34, CASTLE CLOSE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6NF · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£102,000
2026-08-17
15, NEALE STREET, PRUDHOE
NE42 5HP · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-08-17
36, HOLLY GROVE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6PS · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£158,000
2026-08-07
11, TENNYSON COURT, PRUDHOE
NE42 6RJ · Detached · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£330,000
2026-08-06
24, SCHOOL ROW, PRUDHOE
NE42 5FE · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£230,000
2026-08-05
8, LEAWAY, PRUDHOE
NE42 6QE · Semi-detached · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£240,000
2026-08-05
13, WESLEY STREET, PRUDHOE
NE42 5AD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£81,500
2026-08-03
23, CASTLE VIEW, PRUDHOE
NE42 6AT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£325,000
2026-07-31
47, BIVERFIELD ROAD, PRUDHOE
NE42 5ER · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£130,000
2026-07-24
5, BURNSIDE CLOSE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6BS · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£635,000
2026-07-23
95, MOORLANDS, PRUDHOE
NE42 5LR · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£221,000
2026-07-20
17, WELBURN CLOSE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6BD · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£180,000
2026-07-17
10, OLD ELTRINGHAM COURT, PRUDHOE
NE42 6QJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£217,000
2026-07-13
12, WESTERN AVENUE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6NU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£155,000
2026-07-06
7, HAZEL CLOSE, PRUDHOE
NE42 5PT · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£365,000
2026-06-26
19, HILLCREST, PRUDHOE
NE42 5LE · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£133,500
2026-06-23
15, LEABURN TERRACE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6JA · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£115,000
2026-06-15
26, BROOMHOUSE ROAD, PRUDHOE
NE42 5EJ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£142,500
2026-06-12
51, ADDERLANE ROAD, PRUDHOE
NE42 5HS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£130,000
2026-06-01
54, PIPER ROAD, PRUDHOE
NE42 6AZ · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£140,000
2026-06-01
13, COLDWELL ROAD, PRUDHOE
NE42 5DY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£137,000
2026-05-29
3, EDGEWELL ROAD WEST, PRUDHOE
NE42 6JP · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£110,000
2026-05-29
68, WESTERN AVENUE, PRUDHOE
NE42 6PA · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£177,000
2026-05-15
87, CHEVIOT VIEW, PRUDHOE
NE42 5AU · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£120,000
2026-05-08
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 closest districts to NE42 by straight-line distance between district centres.
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- House prices in NE40 (Ryton) 3.2 miles
- House prices in NE17 (Newcastle upon Tyne) 3.7 miles
- House prices in NE39 (Rowlands Gill) 4.5 miles
- House prices in NE44 (Riding Mill) 5.1 miles
- House prices in NE21 (Blaydon-on-Tyne) 5.3 miles
- House prices in NE18 (Newcastle upon Tyne) 5.3 miles
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Data sources
Every NE42 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.