Tower Gardens, Ryton house prices are built from 55 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2017 and the most recent on 7 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,250. Across the 8 years from 2017 to 2025 the median moved +58.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +18.9%.
Median price paid
£98,250
Change in cash, 2017–2025
+58.3%
Change in real terms
+18.9%
Median per m²
£1,787
HM Land Registry55 sales13 with floor areaLatest sale 7 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Tower Gardens, Ryton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Tower Gardens, Ryton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2017 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1 | £90,000 | £126,900 |
| 2020s | 2 | £102,125 | £104,345 |
The highest yearly median on record for Tower Gardens, Ryton is £142,500 in 2025; the lowest is £90,000 in 2017. Across the full 9-year record the cash median has moved from £90,000 to £142,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,490, so the real change over the whole record is +18.9% — about +2.18% 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: +58.3% in cash against +18.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 7 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £188,000 | £188,000 |
| 22 | 19 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £115,000 | £117,500 |
| 38 | 13 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £213,500 | £218,141 |
| 28 | 30 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| 12 | 17 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 36 | 17 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 10 | 26 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 6 | 22 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £108,000 | £116,690 |
| 50 | 16 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 8 | 17 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £109,000 | £126,286 |
| 33 | 15 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 10 | 4 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 7 | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £157,930 |
| 2 | 10 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £98,250 | £124,133 |
| 14 | 30 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £119,000 | £150,349 |
| 11 | 14 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £106,000 | £133,925 |
| 31 | 5 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 38 | 15 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £167,500 | £211,626 |
| 39 | 8 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £90,000 | £113,710 |
| 12 | 14 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £161,846 |
| 36 | 7 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £100,500 | £130,124 |
| 34 | 28 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £82,500 | £109,948 |
| 12 | 27 Apr 2018 | Semi-detached | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| 33 | 29 Sep 2017 | Semi-detached | £98,000 | £133,378 |
| 32 | 11 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £90,000 | £122,490 |
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 Tower Gardens, Ryton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 Tower Gardens | £54,000 (2002) | £188,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 38 Tower Gardens | £90,000 (2017) | £213,500 (2025) | +11.4% | +7.5% |
| 12 Tower Gardens | £52,000 (1996) | £155,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +1.2% |
| 36 Tower Gardens | £100,500 (2020) | £145,000 (2025) | +7.6% | +2.6% |
| 10 Tower Gardens | £90,000 (2021) | £140,000 (2025) | +11.7% | +5.9% |
| 33 Tower Gardens | £97,000 (2009) | £130,000 (2022) | +2.3% | -0.4% |
| 7 Tower Gardens | £44,500 (1995) | £125,000 (2021) | +4.1% | +1.8% |
| 14 Tower Gardens | £116,500 (2016) | £119,000 (2021) | +0.4% | -1.6% |
| 11 Tower Gardens | £36,000 (2000) | £106,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.0% |
| 31 Tower Gardens | £31,500 (1997) | £85,000 (2021) | +4.2% | +2.0% |
| 32 Tower Gardens | £102,000 (2005) | £90,000 (2017) | -1.0% | -3.4% |
| 16 Tower Gardens | £90,000 (2009) | £95,000 (2017) | +0.7% | -1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Tower Gardens, Ryton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 51 | 92.7% | £98,250 | £31,500 – £213,500 |
| Detached | 2 | 3.6% | £55,000 | £55,000 – £115,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 3.6% | £90,000 | £90,000 – £102,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Tower Gardens, Ryton
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 55 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 | 55 | 100.0% | £98,250 |
A further 1 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 Tower Gardens, Ryton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Gateshead, 45.8% of 97,763 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 194 | 0.2% |
| B | 7,489 | 7.7% |
| C | 37,122 | 38.0% |
| D | 40,200 | 41.1% |
| E | 10,603 | 10.8% |
| F | 1,774 | 1.8% |
| G | 381 | 0.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Gateshead at £793 a month as of Jun 2026 — £583 for a one-bedroom home and £832 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £98,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.69% 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 NE40, 97 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 27 violent, 1 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 26 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.
Against the 196,151 residents the 2021 census counted in Gateshead, that is 0.49 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 Tower Gardens, Ryton
The 2021 census counted 196,151 residents in Gateshead across 88,999 households. 58.4% of those households own their home and 41.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a NE40 postcode: 6 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorp Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,442 |
| Emmaville Primary School | Primary | Community school | 442 |
| St Agnes' Catholic Primary School, Crawcrook | Primary | Academy converter | 189 |
| Crookhill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 186 |
| Greenside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 172 |
| Ryton Junior School | Primary | Community school | 133 |
| Ryton Community Infant School | Primary | Community school | 121 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wylam Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Blaydon Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Prudhoe Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
| Metrocentre Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
Section 09
How Tower Gardens, Ryton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Tower Gardens, Ryton sits below that national figure — -37.6%.
Within Ryton the street ranks 189 of 306 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £110,500 (-11.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,787 per square metre, across 13 of the 55 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 £31,500 to £213,500. 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.
Tower Gardens, Ryton sits in Gateshead, in the North East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Gateshead at 4.9 times median local earnings of £33,670 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
- Kepier Chare£106,000 median
- Silvermere Drive£85,000 median
- Grayling Way£284,995 median
- Park Field£106,000 median
- Rosedale Road£80,000 median
- Horsley Avenue£131,475 median
- Jarvis Drive£188,500 median
- Milton Street£79,975 median
- Mollyfair Close£43,000 median
- South View£93,750 median
- Younghall Close£130,750 median
- Westwood View£101,000 median
- Garden House Estate£101,000 median
- North View£110,000 median
- Rockwood Hill Estate£118,000 median
- Ryton Village£118,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Tower Gardens6 sales
- 12 Tower Gardens5 sales
- 50 Tower Gardens4 sales
- 38 Tower Gardens3 sales
- 33 Tower Gardens3 sales
- 11 Tower Gardens3 sales
- 16 Tower Gardens3 sales
- 36 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 10 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 14 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 31 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 32 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 51 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 29 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 47 Tower Gardens2 sales
- 49 Tower Gardens2 sales
Back to Ryton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Tower Gardens, Ryton?
The median price paid in Tower Gardens, Ryton across every sale on the register is £98,250. 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 Tower Gardens, Ryton?
55 sales are on record for Tower Gardens, Ryton, the most recent completing on 7 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Tower Gardens, Ryton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.3% between 2017 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +18.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Tower Gardens, Ryton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £142,500, 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 Tower Gardens, Ryton?
£1,787 per square metre, from the 13 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 7 Jan 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, “Tower Gardens, Ryton 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.