South Shields house prices

South Shields house prices are built from 31,982 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +27.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -8.7%.

HM Land Registry31,982 sales7,349 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median South Shields house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for South Shields is £157,500 in 2025; the lowest is £38,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £38,000 to £153,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £84,378, so the real change over the whole record is +81.3% — about +1.94% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +27.5% in cash against -8.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to South Shields values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. South Shields is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 11,932 certificates cover South Shields, and their median floor area is 73 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

9,038 of the sales on record are leasehold and 22,944 freehold — 28.3% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £70,000 and the median freehold sale £100,000 — a gap of +42.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +56.3%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 3,022 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across South Tyneside, 46.2% of 79,959 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in South Tyneside at £731 a month as of Jun 2026 — £512 for a one-bedroom home and £763 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £89,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.75% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of NE34, 290 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 8 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 80 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times busier.

Against the 147,776 residents the 2021 census counted in South Tyneside, that is 1.96 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 147,776 residents in South Tyneside across 68,288 households. 57.1% of those households own their home and 42.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

17 state and independent schools have a NE34 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. South Shields sits below that national figure — -42.9%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,149 per square metre, across 7,349 of the 31,982 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £150 to £1,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

South Shields sits in South Tyneside, in the North East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in South Tyneside at 5.2 times median local earnings of £31,604 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in South Shields

• St Vincent Street419 sales
• Stanhope Road419 sales
• Sunderland Road415 sales
• Mowbray Road374 sales
• Beaconside298 sales
• Sea Winnings Way292 sales
• Mortimer Road278 sales
• Beacon Glade267 sales
• Birchington Avenue246 sales
• Coleridge Avenue242 sales
• Harton House Road229 sales
• King George Road229 sales
• Bamburgh Avenue212 sales
• Dean Road204 sales
• Ashley Road198 sales
• Harton Lane198 sales
• Brass Thill Way197 sales
• Talbot Road195 sales
• Osborne Avenue185 sales
• North Main Court180 sales
• Westoe Road180 sales
• Westcliffe Way176 sales
• Beach Road174 sales
• Eglesfield Road167 sales
• Lynwood Way164 sales
• Leighton Street159 sales
• Richmond Road159 sales
• Waverdale Way158 sales
• Greenside Drift155 sales
• Roman Road151 sales
• Harbour View150 sales
• Hutton Row149 sales
• Marine Approach146 sales
• Marsden Road146 sales
• Wharton Street146 sales
• Bents Park Road144 sales
• Grosvenor Road144 sales
• Spohr Terrace143 sales
• Horsley Hill Road135 sales
• Imeary Street134 sales
• Warwick Road132 sales
• Redwood Avenue128 sales
• Broughton Road127 sales
• Lumley Avenue127 sales
• Northcote Street127 sales
• West Avenue122 sales
• Strathmore Gardens121 sales
• Cheviot Road120 sales
• Baring Street119 sales
• Whiteleas Way119 sales
• Prince Edward Road118 sales
• John Williamson Street115 sales
• Highfield Road114 sales
• Morpeth Avenue111 sales
• Baltic Court110 sales
• Marshall Wallis Road109 sales
• Captains Wharf107 sales
• Canterbury Street106 sales
• Fennel Grove106 sales
• Lawe Road105 sales

Postcode districts covering South Shields

• NE34£97,500 median
• NE33£80,000 median

What is the average house price in South Shields?

The median price paid in South Shields across every sale on the register is £89,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in South Shields?

31,982 sales are on record for South Shields, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have South Shields house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +27.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -8.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were South Shields house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £157,500, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in South Shields?

£1,149 per square metre, from the 7,349 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “South Shields house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.