Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne house prices are built from 432 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £172,995. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +33.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.4%.
Median price paid
£172,995
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+33.3%
Change in real terms
-3.4%
Median per m²
£1,966
HM Land Registry432 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 7 | £169,495 | £308,770 |
| 2010s | 10 | £173,000 | £243,930 |
| 2020s | 6 | £200,000 | £204,348 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne is £302,000 in 2022; the lowest is £127,500 in 2011. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £167,995 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £317,524, so the real change over the whole record is -16.3% — about -0.81% 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: +33.3% in cash against -3.4% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £136,000 | £136,000 |
| 100 | 13 Mar 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 57 | 20 Feb 2026 | Detached | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 44a | 11 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 53 | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 134 | 31 Oct 2025 | Detached | £201,000 | £205,370 |
| 203 | 10 Sep 2025 | Detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 151 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 38 | 4 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £220,000 | £224,783 |
| 18 | 22 May 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 130 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £172,500 | £176,250 |
| 61 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £150,000 | £153,261 |
| 202 | 26 Mar 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 89 | 6 Jan 2025 | Detached | £327,500 | £334,620 |
| 16 | 29 Nov 2024 | Detached | £249,950 | £263,007 |
| 160 | 25 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 161 | 2 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £166,000 | £174,672 |
| 189 | 21 Jun 2024 | Detached | £371,500 | £390,907 |
| 66 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £168,000 | £176,776 |
| 70 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £110,000 | £115,746 |
| 121 | 23 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £187,500 | £197,295 |
| 80 | 5 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £158,000 | £166,254 |
| 19 | 30 Nov 2023 | Detached | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 50 | 24 Nov 2023 | Detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 205 | 4 Aug 2023 | Detached | £335,000 | £361,954 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 Forest Gate | £113,995 (2006) | £136,000 (2026) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| 100 Forest Gate | £233,995 (2005) | £325,000 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 57 Forest Gate | £204,995 (2005) | £325,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 44A Forest Gate | £164,995 (2005) | £250,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 134 Forest Gate | £139,995 (2005) | £201,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 53 Forest Gate | £249,995 (2005) | £370,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 203 Forest Gate | £145,995 (2003) | £260,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 151 Forest Gate | £265,995 (2005) | £395,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 38 Forest Gate | £194,995 (2006) | £220,000 (2025) | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| 18 Forest Gate | £152,995 (2003) | £320,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 130 Forest Gate | £137,995 (2005) | £172,500 (2025) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 61 Forest Gate | £138,995 (2006) | £150,000 (2025) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 244 | 56.5% | £215,000 | £45,000 – £395,000 |
| Terraced | 161 | 37.3% | £139,995 | £47,250 – £250,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 6.0% | £149,995 | £120,000 – £200,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.2% | £104,995 | £104,995 – £104,995 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 432 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 432 | 100.0% | £172,995 |
| New build | 206 | 47.7% | £168,995 |
| Existing home | 226 | 52.3% | £182,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -7.4%. 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 17 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.
Section 07
Living in Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Tyneside, 50.6% of 103,790 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 827 | 0.8% |
| B | 10,642 | 10.3% |
| C | 41,095 | 39.6% |
| D | 39,255 | 37.8% |
| E | 9,907 | 9.5% |
| F | 1,702 | 1.6% |
| G | 362 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Tyneside at £846 a month as of Jun 2026 — £582 for a one-bedroom home and £893 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £172,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.87% 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 NE12, 140 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 42 violent, 7 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 25 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times quieter.
Against the 208,967 residents the 2021 census counted in North Tyneside, that is 0.67 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne
The 2021 census counted 208,967 residents in North Tyneside across 96,232 households. 64.2% of those households own their home and 35.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a NE12 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Stephenson High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,233 |
| Longbenton High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 995 |
| Bailey Green Primary School | Primary | Community school | 469 |
| Benton Dene Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 466 |
| Amberley Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 405 |
| Westmoor Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 343 |
| St Stephen's Catholic Primary School, Newcastle | Primary | Academy converter | 230 |
| St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School (Aided) | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 213 |
| St Marys Catholic Primary School, Forest Hall | Primary | Academy converter | 208 |
| Forest Hall Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 148 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Benton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.2 km |
| Benton (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.2 km |
| Four Lane Ends (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.7 km |
| Four Lane Ends (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.7 km |
Section 09
How Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne sits above that national figure — +9.8%.
Within Newcastle upon Tyne the street ranks 1176 of 4056 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £126,000 (+37.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,966 per square metre, across 65 of the 432 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 £45,000 to £395,000. 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.
Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne sits in North Tyneside, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Tyneside at 5.7 times median local earnings of £37,005 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Greenhills£105,475 median
- Bede Close£121,927 median
- Woodlea£110,000 median
- Front Street£88,500 median
- Belvedere Gardens£92,750 median
- Housesteads Gardens£140,995 median
- West Farm Wynd£125,000 median
- Williams Park£125,000 median
- Weardale Avenue£105,000 median
- Edgemount£79,960 median
- Park Terrace£61,000 median
- Chesters Avenue£118,750 median
- Hawks Edge£173,500 median
- Woodlands Grange£135,500 median
- White Swan Close£144,995 median
- Garth Twentyfour£85,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 160 Forest Gate5 sales
- 50 Forest Gate5 sales
- 45A Forest Gate5 sales
- 70 Forest Gate4 sales
- 61 Forest Gate4 sales
- 89 Forest Gate4 sales
- 189 Forest Gate4 sales
- 159 Forest Gate4 sales
- 126 Forest Gate4 sales
- 77 Forest Gate4 sales
- 7 Forest Gate4 sales
- 84 Forest Gate4 sales
- 43 Forest Gate4 sales
- 11 Forest Gate4 sales
- 124 Forest Gate4 sales
- 180 Forest Gate4 sales
- 166 Forest Gate4 sales
- 165 Forest Gate4 sales
- 163 Forest Gate4 sales
- 10 Forest Gate4 sales
- 44A Forest Gate3 sales
- 134 Forest Gate3 sales
- 203 Forest Gate3 sales
- 151 Forest Gate3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne?
The median price paid in Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne across every sale on the register is £172,995. 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 Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne?
432 sales are on record for Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £302,000, set in 2022. 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 Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne?
£1,966 per square metre, from the 65 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 29 May 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, “Forest Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne 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.