Orme Road, Newcastle house prices

Orme Road, Newcastle house prices are built from 233 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £65,999. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -2.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.1%.

HM Land Registry233 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Orme Road, Newcastle house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Orme Road, Newcastle is £112,000 in 2018; the lowest is £27,000 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £27,000 to £88,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £57,248, so the real change over the whole record is +57.1% — about +1.63% 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: -2.2% in cash against -29.1% 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 Orme Road, Newcastle values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

97 of the sales on record are leasehold and 136 freehold — 41.6% 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 £64,999 and the median freehold sale £85,000 — a gap of +30.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.5%. 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 46 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme, 39.9% of 55,315 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme at £827 a month as of Jun 2026 — £575 for a one-bedroom home and £888 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £65,999 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.04% 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 ST5, 367 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 133 violent, 14 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 73 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.

Against the 123,299 residents the 2021 census counted in Newcastle-under-Lyme, that is 2.98 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 123,299 residents in Newcastle-under-Lyme across 53,423 households. 68.3% of those households own their home and 31.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

31 state and independent schools have a ST5 postcode: 24 primary, 5 secondary, 1 nursery, 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. Orme Road, Newcastle sits below that national figure — -58.1%.

Within Newcastle the street ranks 915 of 996 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £110,000 (-40.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,173 per square metre, across 50 of the 233 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 £10,000 to £190,000. 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.

Orme Road, Newcastle sits in Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 6.2 times median local earnings of £31,507 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 nearby

• London Road£69,999 median
• High Street£99,000 median
• Oxford Road£79,975 median
• The Midway£65,000 median
• Liverpool Road£85,000 median
• Fearns Avenue£110,000 median
• Clayton Road£148,000 median
• Basford Park Road£99,475 median
• Watlands View£75,000 median
• Dimsdale Parade West£101,000 median
• Heaton Terrace£79,975 median
• Old Hall Drive£119,975 median
• Sutton Avenue£209,713 median
• Keeling Street£68,500 median
• Galingale View£175,000 median
• Dimsdale Parade East£89,475 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 47 Orme Road5 sales
• 220 Orme Road5 sales
• 172 Orme Road5 sales
• 187 Orme Road5 sales
• 156 Orme Road5 sales
• 82 Orme Road4 sales
• 134 Orme Road3 sales
• 264 Orme Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 89, ORME HOUSE, 1 Orme Road3 sales
• APARTMENT 65, ORME HOUSE, 1 Orme Road3 sales
• 43 Orme Road3 sales
• 132 Orme Road3 sales
• 127 Orme Road3 sales
• 139 Orme Road3 sales
• 64 Orme Road3 sales
• 222 Orme Road3 sales
• 230 Orme Road3 sales
• 18 Orme Road3 sales
• 36 Orme Road2 sales
• 130 Orme Road2 sales
• 6 Orme Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 12, ORME HOUSE, 1 Orme Road2 sales
• APARTMENT 76, ORME HOUSE, 1 Orme Road2 sales
• 150 Orme Road2 sales

Back to Newcastle house prices.

What is the average house price in Orme Road, Newcastle?

The median price paid in Orme Road, Newcastle across every sale on the register is £65,999. 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 Orme Road, Newcastle?

233 sales are on record for Orme Road, Newcastle, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Orme Road, Newcastle house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -2.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Orme Road, Newcastle house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £112,000, set in 2018. 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 Orme Road, Newcastle?

£1,173 per square metre, from the 50 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 17 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, “Orme Road, Newcastle 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.