Highfield Road, South Shields house prices are built from 114 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £92,500. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +91.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +39.0%.
Median price paid
£92,500
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+91.5%
Change in real terms
+39.0%
Median per m²
£1,181
HM Land Registry114 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Highfield Road, South Shields prices moved
The chart tracks the median Highfield Road, South Shields house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £36,000 | £79,937 |
| 2000s | 4 | £50,000 | £91,085 |
| 2010s | 2 | £101,300 | £142,833 |
| 2020s | 2 | £194,000 | £198,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Highfield Road, South Shields is £220,000 in 2021; the lowest is £35,950 in 1998. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £51,250 to £194,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,665, so the real change over the whole record is +106.8% — about +2.95% 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: +91.5% in cash against +39.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 27 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 70 | 3 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 51 | 22 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 87 | 22 Mar 2024 | Detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 208 | 14 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £97,500 | £105,345 |
| 138 | 28 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 172 | 25 Nov 2022 | Detached | £194,000 | £224,766 |
| 62 | 29 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 94 | 29 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £110,066 |
| 232 | 1 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £110,000 | £127,445 |
| 60 | 21 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 71 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £202,151 |
| 148 | 23 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £239,000 | £301,962 |
| 158 | 23 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 134 | 5 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 41 | 26 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £283,250 | £357,870 |
| 170 | 7 Oct 2020 | Detached | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 124 | 4 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 89 | 19 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £181,730 | £235,298 |
| 57 | 12 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £187,000 | £242,121 |
| 70 | 19 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £163,000 | £213,200 |
| 61 | 16 Dec 2019 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £311,299 |
| 76 | 15 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £193,000 | £252,440 |
| 166 | 17 Jul 2019 | Detached | £187,500 | £245,246 |
| 54 | 29 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £294,000 | £384,545 |
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 Highfield Road, South Shields values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Highfield Road | £60,000 (1998) | £170,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 70 Highfield Road | £141,000 (2003) | £315,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 51 Highfield Road | £175,000 (2007) | £275,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 208 Highfield Road | £74,000 (2012) | £97,500 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 94 Highfield Road | £25,000 (1999) | £95,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.4% |
| 232 Highfield Road | £30,000 (1997) | £110,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.8% |
| 60 Highfield Road | £59,999 (1996) | £260,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
| 158 Highfield Road | £71,500 (1997) | £220,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
| 41 Highfield Road | £93,000 (2000) | £283,250 (2021) | +5.4% | +3.2% |
| 89 Highfield Road | £70,000 (1998) | £181,730 (2020) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 61 Highfield Road | £153,650 (2017) | £238,000 (2019) | +24.5% | +22.0% |
| 76 Highfield Road | £158,000 (2006) | £193,000 (2019) | +1.6% | -0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highfield Road, South Shields 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 | 63 | 55.3% | £160,000 | £7,000 – £315,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 24 | 21.1% | £37,950 | £16,000 – £100,000 |
| Terraced | 21 | 18.4% | £66,000 | £21,000 – £110,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 5.3% | £187,500 | £116,500 – £290,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Highfield Road, South Shields
27 of the sales on record are leasehold and 87 freehold — 23.7% 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 £140,000 — a gap of +100.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 27 | 23.7% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 87 | 76.3% | £140,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.9% | £25,000 |
| Existing home | 113 | 99.1% | £93,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -73.1%. 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 8 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 Highfield Road, South Shields
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 183 | 0.2% |
| B | 5,961 | 7.5% |
| C | 30,762 | 38.5% |
| D | 34,047 | 42.6% |
| E | 7,676 | 9.6% |
| F | 1,102 | 1.4% |
| G | 228 | 0.3% |
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 £92,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.48% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Highfield Road, South Shields
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,599 |
| St Wilfrid's RC College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,271 |
| Harton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 636 |
| Mortimer Primary School | Primary | Community school | 588 |
| Ridgeway Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 452 |
| Ashley Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 396 |
| Sea View Primary School | Primary | Community school | 366 |
| Lord Blyton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 229 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Academy (South Shields) | Primary | Academy converter | 228 |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, South Shields | Primary | Academy converter | 226 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Tyne Dock (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
| Tyne Dock (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.3 km |
| Chichester (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 1.7 km |
| Simonside (Tyne and Wear Metro Station) | Metro or underground | 2.1 km |
Section 09
How Highfield Road, South Shields compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highfield Road, South Shields sits below that national figure — -41.3%.
Within South Shields the street ranks 327 of 721 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £89,950 (+2.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,181 per square metre, across 25 of the 114 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 £7,000 to £315,000. 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.
Highfield Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Sunderland Road£145,000 median
- Beaconside£132,250 median
- Beacon Glade£95,950 median
- King George Road£225,000 median
- Harton House Road£120,000 median
- Bamburgh Avenue£137,500 median
- Ashley Road£79,950 median
- Harton Lane£125,000 median
- Talbot Road£59,950 median
- Westcliffe Way£102,475 median
- Lynwood Way£159,995 median
- Richmond Road£58,950 median
- Marsden Road£140,000 median
- Warwick Road£90,000 median
- Redwood Avenue£110,000 median
- Lumley Avenue£115,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 121 Highfield Road5 sales
- 60 Highfield Road4 sales
- 104 Highfield Road4 sales
- 70 Highfield Road3 sales
- 94 Highfield Road3 sales
- 158 Highfield Road3 sales
- 76 Highfield Road3 sales
- 37 Highfield Road3 sales
- 196 Highfield Road3 sales
- 135 Highfield Road3 sales
- 133 Highfield Road3 sales
- 81 Highfield Road2 sales
- 51 Highfield Road2 sales
- 208 Highfield Road2 sales
- 232 Highfield Road2 sales
- 41 Highfield Road2 sales
- 89 Highfield Road2 sales
- 61 Highfield Road2 sales
- 54 Highfield Road2 sales
- 160 Highfield Road2 sales
- 198 Highfield Road2 sales
- 137 Highfield Road2 sales
- 156 Highfield Road2 sales
- 130 Highfield Road2 sales
Back to South Shields house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Highfield Road, South Shields?
The median price paid in Highfield Road, South Shields across every sale on the register is £92,500. 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 Highfield Road, South Shields?
114 sales are on record for Highfield Road, South Shields, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Highfield Road, South Shields house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +91.5% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +39.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Highfield Road, South Shields house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £220,000, set in 2021. 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 Highfield Road, South Shields?
£1,181 per square metre, from the 25 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 27 Mar 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, “Highfield Road, 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.