Gateshead - Houses, Property and Homes to Rent and Buy

'When Hadrian built his wall across Northern England, he also built a bridge over the river Tyne - roughly where Newcastle's swing bridge stands today. To tell illiterate Britons they owed their dry feet to the emperor, Hadrian fixed his goat's head badge to the bridge's southern pier. That carved head is remembered in the name of the town that grew up by the south bank of the Tyne: Gateshead. Gateshead is a great place and offers some of the best properties throughout the North East, Sanderson Young will be happy to offer properties to view, homes to buy and properties to rent in Gateshead.

Though Gateshead may seem part of the Tyneside conurbation, the town is fiercely independent. For centuries Gateshead belonged to County Durham not Northumberland and with the demise of the artificial (and unloved) Tyne & Wear Metropolitan County, Gateshead became a separate borough of South Tyneside.

Yet in these days of globalisation, big is most definitely beautiful and Gateshead and Newcastle have buried ancient rivalries to create a unified waterfront that is a model of urban regeneration. Gateshead council sponsored the unique 'blinking eye' Millennium Bridge that gives Newcastle's pedestrians access to the new Baltic Gallery and Sage music centre on Gateshead Quays.

The waterfront may be the shop window for 21st Century Gateshead, but the town's ambitious regeneration plans do not stop here. The MetroCentre shopping mall arrived in the early 1980s and local landmark Swalwell Park has received a multi million pound facelift. Last but not least the former coaling yard of Dunston Staithes has become Staiths South Bank, a superb modern estate built by Wimpey and designed by fashion gurus Wayne & Geraldine Hemmingway.

Naturally a large, vibrant town like Gateshead has a full range of residential property. Prestigious penthouses, with price tags as breathtaking as the views, can be found on Baltic Quays but there's ample affordable accommodation in suburbs like Low Fell. Here a three bedroom semi can be had for just £125,000 and a four storey, four bedroom, Edwardian townhouse for £325,000. In less fashionable districts like Bensham there are still some bargains with houses, euphemistically described as 'investment opportunities', fetching bargain basement prices of just £40,000.

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