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Longbenton market report NE12 8, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE12 8 (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: 4,524 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE12 8 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NE12 8 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) came in at £180,000, out of 48 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £191,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,524 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NE12 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NE12 (Newcastle Upon Tyne). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NE12 8 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.
NE12 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the NE12 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £180,000, from 48 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £191,600, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in NE12 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NE12 8 costs about £2,170 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE12 8 trades 37% below the country as a whole.
A typical NE12 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £185,000 | £189,424 | 145 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 121 |
| 2023 | £167,000 | £183,492 | 133 |
| 2022 | £165,000 | £193,481 | 142 |
| 2021 | £157,900 | £199,922 | 156 |
| 2020 | £152,000 | £197,223 | 115 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 113 |
| 2018 | £145,000 | £193,288 | 143 |
| 2017 | £141,500 | £192,992 | 162 |
| 2016 | £137,000 | £191,664 | 169 |
| 2015 | £134,500 | £190,049 | 150 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 169 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 116 |
| 2012 | £119,000 | £175,153 | 94 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 95 |
| 2010 | £133,200 | £208,892 | 112 |
| 2009 | £129,100 | £207,529 | 152 |
| 2008 | £132,000 | £216,376 | 119 |
| 2007 | £137,500 | £233,238 | 266 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 261 |
| 2005 | £131,200 | £233,483 | 252 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 258 |
| 2003 | £102,000 | £187,909 | 214 |
| 2002 | £83,000 | £156,164 | 197 |
| 2001 | £70,000 | £134,571 | 186 |
| 2000 | £58,500 | £114,806 | 112 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 77 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 68 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 53 |
| 1996 | £37,400 | £78,875 | 61 |
| 1995 | £72,500 | £157,604 | 65 |
In cash terms the typical NE12 8 home went from £72,500 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 2.5 times the price. In today's money, though, the move is modest, around 14%. The cash growth mostly records inflation, with homes themselves changing little in real value. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE12 8 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 2000 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−48.4%). 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) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
NE12 8 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 218 sales a year before the financial crisis and 118 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market NE12 8 is
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NE12 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within NE12, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around NE12 8
NE12 8 falls under North Tyneside, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £577 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,197 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Tyneside
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £180,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about NE12 8 (Longbenton)
Are property prices falling in NE12 8 (Longbenton)?
Is NE12 8 (Longbenton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE12 8 (Longbenton)?
Are NE12 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in NE12 today
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 2% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 7 | £240,000 | 46 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE12 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NE12 8.
Take it further
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See every individual NE12 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.