Areas on the move: North East

North East local authorities ranked by how their average price moved in the year to July 2026, on the official UK House Price Index

In the year to July 2026 the average price in the North East rose 4.9% to £166,943. All 12 local authorities ranked in the North East rose. The biggest rise was in Northumberland, up 7.3%.

Rising fastest over the year

  1. Northumberland: +7.3%, average price £212,563
  2. North Tyneside: +6.5%, average price £205,744
  3. Hartlepool: +5.5%, average price £136,894
  4. South Tyneside: +5.3%, average price £161,559
  5. Sunderland: +4.8%, average price £147,114
  6. County Durham: +4.7%, average price £140,447
  7. Redcar and Cleveland: +4.2%, average price £151,341
  8. Newcastle upon Tyne: +4.1%, average price £207,547
  9. Gateshead: +3.7%, average price £155,550
  10. Middlesbrough: +3.7%, average price £140,909
  11. Stockton-on-Tees: +3.0%, average price £170,029
  12. Darlington: +2.9%, average price £159,988

Falling fastest over the year

No local authority in the North East fell over the year to July 2026; all 12 rose.

Figures are HM Land Registry's UK House Price Index for July 2026. For a local authority the index is a three-month average (May to July 2026), and the annual change compares it with May to July 2025. The average price is the index's standardised average, a mix-adjusted geometric mean, not the mean or median of sales, so it will not match a list of sold prices.

July 2026 is a first estimate: HM Land Registry make it from around 40% of the sales they expect to register, and revise it and the 11 months before it every month. This page updates with each monthly release. HM Land Registry warn that figures for local authorities with few sales are volatile, so read a small gap between two authorities as no gap.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, and Office for National Statistics data, both licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.