Gateshead - what real landlords are actually charging right now

Forget the national averages for a moment. Here's what real Gateshead landlords are charging right now, from our own managed portfolio - and it might be more than you're charging.

📍 Real rents, by bedroom count

These are genuinely large samples across the borough - from Bensham and Dunston to Low Fell and beyond.

📈 Real rent increases we've just pushed through

Here are five rent reviews we've completed for Gateshead landlords in the last few months - real increases, already agreed:

Average across 12 completed reviews since August: +6.4%, ranging 3.8% to 10.0%, broadly in line with the boroughwide rent growth figure below.

Worth noting: all of these went through under the Renters' Rights Act, which came into force on 1st May. Rent review clauses no longer work, and Section 13 - a formal notice, Form 4A, with two months' notice - is now the only legal route to a rent increase. The process has changed, but as these reviews show, it hasn't stopped landlords from getting a fair increase when the numbers justify it.

📊 The boroughwide numbers

Gateshead's average house price is up 7.8% this year - more than four times the UK's own growth rate of 1.9%. Rent has grown 5.3%, only a little behind the North East's 6.3%.

Here's how that breaks down by property type:

💷 Buy-to-let snapshot by property type

Estimated gross yield, calculated from average price and average rent by property type. Excludes costs, fees, and void periods.

Both properties below are in Bensham, a densely residential inner suburb of Gateshead within walking distance of Saltwell Park.

🏠 Investment opportunities we're marketing

• 2 Bed Ground Floor Flat, Hyde Park Street, Gateshead — Offers over £84,950 — Investment Potential. A 2-bed on this street is achieving £635 pcm with us - ~9.0% yield.
• 2 Bed Ground Floor Flat, Patterdale Terrace, Gateshead — Offers over £95,000 — Homebuyer or Investor. ~16% below the £113,412 NE8 flat average, vacant possession.

For more properties we're marketing across Gateshead, visit nguhomes.co.uk.

That's what making money from property in Gateshead actually looks like right now - real rent increases, on real properties, not just a market average. If you'd like to talk through your rent, a purchase, or your wider portfolio, just reply and I'll go through the numbers with you.