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Longbenton market report NE12 9, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The standing NE12 9 (Longbenton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,238 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE12 9 (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: a typical NE12 9 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) home changed hands for £250,000 in 2026 (median of 58 registered sales, up 47% on five years earlier), with the mean at £247,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,400 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,238 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like NE12 9 is a single group of streets within NE12 (Newcastle Upon Tyne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NE12 9 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 buyers actually paid in NE12 9
Across 58 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NE12 9 home went for £250,000. The mean is £247,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in NE12 9
By floor space, homes in NE12 9 have sold for about £2,400 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NE12 9 trades 12% below the country as a whole.
A typical NE12 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 58 |
| 2025 | £205,000 | £209,902 | 139 |
| 2024 | £184,500 | £196,161 | 130 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 133 |
| 2022 | £171,000 | £200,517 | 138 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 157 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 130 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 142 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 176 |
| 2017 | £163,000 | £222,316 | 168 |
| 2016 | £160,500 | £224,541 | 166 |
| 2015 | £194,000 | £274,122 | 223 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 189 |
| 2013 | £141,500 | £203,604 | 154 |
| 2012 | £126,200 | £185,751 | 86 |
| 2011 | £124,500 | £187,947 | 112 |
| 2010 | £138,500 | £217,204 | 92 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 77 |
| 2008 | £129,200 | £211,786 | 90 |
| 2007 | £142,000 | £240,872 | 198 |
| 2006 | £141,000 | £244,758 | 235 |
| 2005 | £148,000 | £263,380 | 215 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 248 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 237 |
| 2002 | £81,000 | £152,401 | 245 |
| 2001 | £58,500 | £112,463 | 206 |
| 2000 | £64,500 | £126,581 | 196 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 304 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 225 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 165 |
| 1996 | £47,500 | £100,175 | 115 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical NE12 9 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 135%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2015, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2015 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NE12 9 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 2002 (+38.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−17.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +22.0% | +19.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.0% | +3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in NE12 9
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
NE12 9 recorded 58 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 223 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the NE12 9 market
This is a thin market: 58 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the NE12 district median, NE12 9 sits 25% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around NE12 9
NE12 9 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.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £838 a month (£10,056 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
Asked and answered: NE12 9 (Longbenton)
How much did a house sell for in NE12 9 (Longbenton)?
Are property prices falling in NE12 9 (Longbenton)?
Is NE12 9 (Longbenton) a good place to buy a house?
Are NE12 9 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 47% over five years in cash and up 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
NE12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 46 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NE12 district, not just NE12 9: 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NE12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NE12, each linking to 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 8 | £180,000 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full NE12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NE12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in NE12 9? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NE12 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NE12 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NE12 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE12 9.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NE12 9. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual NE12 9 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.