Sell Your Property Fast in the North East

• (i) The average price for property in North East England stood at £185,713 in October 2020. This was a fall of 0.07% in the last three months (since July 2020) and fall of 6.15% since 12 months ago. In terms of property types, flats in North East England sold for an average of £133,717 and terraced houses for £134,937 (zoopla)
• (ii) North East England includes the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and the former county of Cleveland (now in North Yorkshire).
• (iii) The region is home to three large conurbations: Teesside, Wearside, and Tyneside, the last of which is the largest of the three and the eighth most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom.
• (iv) There are three cities in the region: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland and Durham. Large towns in the region include Ashington, Barnard Castle, Berwick Upon Tweed, Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Hexham, Middlesbrough, South Shields, Stockton-on-Tees, Washington and Yarm. (Wikipedia)
• (v) The population in 2018 was 2,657,909.
• (vi) The vikings were regular visitors (maybe attackers is a better term) to the region in history. They first arrived in June 793 to the shores of North-East England with a raiding party from Norway who attacked the monastic settlement on Lindisfarne. The next 300 years were dominated by Viking raids. On occasions the vikings would estable settlements and remain in the region.

There is a strong sense of continuity of building styles in traditional homes in the North East. The use of hard sand and gritstones and slate has traditionally led to a no-nonsense type of squat four-square building that constitutes a type seen from coast-to-coast, traversing the Pennine hills that form the backbone of northern England.