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Longbenton market report NE12 7, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE12 7 (Longbenton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,151 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE12 7 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NE12 7 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) is £240,000, from 46 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £259,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,151 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NE12 7 is one sector of NE12 (Newcastle Upon Tyne): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NE12 7 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What NE12 7 homes really sell for
46 sales were registered in NE12 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £240,000. The mean works out at £259,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in NE12 7
A square metre of NE12 7 home has cost about £2,590 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE12 7 trades 16% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NE12 7 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £232,000 | £237,548 | 103 |
| 2024 | £210,000 | £223,273 | 85 |
| 2023 | £292,500 | £321,386 | 132 |
| 2022 | £333,000 | £390,480 | 164 |
| 2021 | £236,800 | £299,819 | 172 |
| 2020 | £237,000 | £307,512 | 139 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 149 |
| 2018 | £222,000 | £295,930 | 123 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 129 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 75 |
| 2015 | £151,500 | £214,070 | 80 |
| 2014 | £159,200 | £225,853 | 76 |
| 2013 | £146,800 | £211,231 | 66 |
| 2012 | £132,000 | £194,288 | 50 |
| 2011 | £146,000 | £220,404 | 48 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 50 |
| 2009 | £136,000 | £218,621 | 54 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 61 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 135 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 153 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 106 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 88 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 89 |
| 2002 | £77,200 | £145,251 | 110 |
| 2001 | £65,900 | £126,689 | 100 |
| 2000 | £59,900 | £117,554 | 112 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 133 |
| 1998 | £57,700 | £116,472 | 112 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 79 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 64 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical NE12 7 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 39% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NE12 7 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2022 (+40.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−28.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in NE12 7
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 NE12 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 106 sales a year recently, against 112 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around NE12 7
The local authority for NE12 7 is North Tyneside, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £577 a month here against £1,197 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Tyneside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 4.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the NE12 7 market
This is a thin market: 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within NE12, this sector trades 20% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
NE12 7 (Longbenton): the questions that come up
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Are NE12 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
NE12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 46 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE12 district, not just NE12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 2% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every NE12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: NE prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NE area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £239,250 | £322,500 (+35%) | £498,100 (+54%) | £700,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £157,000 | £168,000 (+7%) | £216,000 (+29%) | £335,000 (+55%) | £521,000 (+56%) |
| Terraced | £127,500 | £136,000 (+7%) | £170,000 (+25%) | £282,250 (+66%) | £393,500 (+39%) |
| Flat | £95,000 | £127,980 (+35%) | £190,000 (+48%) | £340,000 (+79%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, NE area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NE12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NE12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE12 5 | £155,000 | 17 |
| NE12 6 | £180,000 | 48 |
| NE12 8 | £180,000 | 48 |
| NE12 9 | £250,000 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full NE12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NE12 7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NE12 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the NE12 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NE12 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NE12 7.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual NE12 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.