A straight cash deal for your Toon property.
We buy property across Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland outright — our own money, our own decision, no middlemen involved.
Roughly, what would we pay for it?
Slide the figures to match your property and see a ballpark cash figure. Nothing is recorded and nobody gets in touch unless you ask us to.
This is only a rough guide — what we actually offer depends on the property, the area, the lease and the market. We'll always look at your place properly before putting a real number on it.
One River, Two Different Markets
North of the Tyne or south of the Wear, the problems aren't the same
Newcastle and Sunderland grew up for different reasons, and it shows in the housing stock. Whichever side you're on, we've bought there before.
Famous flats, awkward paperwork
The classic upper-and-lower Tyneside flat is everywhere on this side of the river, and most of them still share one freehold between the two owners. Get that paperwork wrong, or try selling without the other owner's cooperation, and a mortgage buyer's solicitor will stall the whole thing.
Old industry left its mark
Sunderland was built around the shipyards, and a lot of the streets that housed that workforce are still standing — often with the original wiring, roofs that have had their time, and damp nobody's dealt with. That's exactly the sort of thing a standard mortgage valuer flags and walks away from.
What Trips Up A Normal Sale
Four things that make estate agents nervous round here
None of this puts us off — it's the exact reason people come to us instead of listing.
One freehold, two owners
The classic Tyneside upper/lower flat set-up means a shared freehold with the flat above or below — and lenders don't love that arrangement.
Built on a slope down to the river
Plenty of older houses sit on the steep banks towards the Tyne, and movement or retaining-wall issues are common enough that surveys come back cautious.
Houses built for the yards and the pits
Terraces built fast and cheap for shipyard and colliery workers often still have the original wiring and roof — which is exactly what spooks a mortgage valuer.
Living close to the quayside
Anything near the Tyne or Wear quays gets a closer look from insurers and surveyors on flood risk, which can quietly scupper a mortgage near the finish line.
Worth Checking Yourself
A few official places to look before you do anything
You don't need to pay a solicitor for any of this — it answers most of what a buyer's surveyor would ask anyway.
Got a Tyneside flat with a shared freehold, or a place inside Newcastle's Grainger Town conservation area? Newcastle City Council's planning pages set out what can and can't be changed — a valuer checks exactly the same thing. The Historic England list will confirm a building's listing grade in seconds, wherever it sits.
For council tax, planning history and building control, Newcastle City Council covers the city itself, with Gateshead Council and Sunderland City Council handling their own patches. Anything near the Tyne or Wear quays is worth running through the gov.uk flood risk map before you list — a cautious solicitor will do exactly that. Got a short lease or a shared Tyneside freehold to sort out? gov.uk's leasehold guidance lays out extension rights and rough costs plainly.
The landmarks that make this place what it is — the Angel of the North, the Tyne Bridge, Sunderland's riverside and the National Glass Centre — won't fix a dodgy freehold or a failed survey on their own. A straight cash sale will.
A Bit More Detail
Thinking of selling a Newcastle property fast? Here's how it actually works
Most people who want to sell a house fast in Newcastle have already bumped into the same problem: the open market just isn't built for the kind of property that's common round here. Tyneside flats with a shared freehold, old shipyard terraces that need rewiring, places near the river with a flood history — none of it makes a house unsellable, but it does make a normal agency listing the wrong tool for a quick, clean sale.
Why selling here can drag on
Houses across Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland can sit on Rightmove for months. A mortgage lender gets nervous about shared Tyneside freeholds, older terraces needing a rewire, or anything near the Tyne or Wear with a flood history. A survey flags one of those, the buyer's lender gets cold feet, and a sale you thought was done quietly collapses — leaving you covering the mortgage, council tax and insurance on a house you'd already mentally sold.
That's the gap we fill. We're buying with our own money, not someone else's mortgage approval that can be pulled at the last minute — so a shared freehold, flood history or tired damp course is something we just price in, not a reason to walk away.
Whatever state it's in, whatever's going on
We buy houses, Tyneside flats, terraces and ex-council properties right across Newcastle and the surrounding towns — move-in ready, needing a full renovation, sat empty for a while, or passed to you through probate. Fire damage, flood damage, subsidence, an unmortgageable short lease, a difficult tenant — chances are we've already bought through whatever situation you're dealing with.
How quickly this actually moves
Most people who get in touch for a quick house sale in Newcastle hear back from us within 60 minutes with a verbal figure, and a written offer the same day once we've looked at the property properly. After that, completion can happen in as little as 7 days if you're in a hurry — or on whatever timescale actually suits you. No viewings, no listing, no chain above or below you waiting to fall apart. No commission, no legal bill to find upfront, and genuinely no pressure to say yes.
Where we're buying right now
We're active across Newcastle city centre, Jesmond, Heaton, Byker, Fenham and Gosforth, plus Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside, South Shields and Durham. If you've typed "sell my house fast Newcastle", "cash buyers North East", or just want a straight number on what your place is worth, get in touch — the conversation costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
Where We Buy
Every corner of the North East, not just the postcode on the sign
We know this patch properly: a Tyneside flat with a shared freehold can sit stuck on a lease check for months, and a Sunderland terrace near the Wear often trips a valuer up on flood risk alone. We've priced round both often enough that neither one holds our offer up.