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Longbenton market report NE12, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The NE12 (Longbenton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 19,089 HM Land Registry entries for NE12 (Newcastle Upon Tyne), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in NE12 (Newcastle Upon Tyne) sold for £200,000 in 2026, the median of 217 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £222,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,360 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,089 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NE12 is a postcode district covering Longbenton, Killingworth, Benton in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NE12 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
Take the 217 registered 2026 sales in NE12 and the middle price, the median, is £200,000. The mean lands at £222,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in NE12
A square metre of NE12 home has cost about £2,360 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving NE12 30% below the national figure.
NE12's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 217 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 548 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 491 |
| 2023 | £180,000 | £197,776 | 558 |
| 2022 | £187,500 | £219,865 | 613 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 715 |
| 2020 | £165,500 | £214,740 | 521 |
| 2019 | £158,900 | £208,280 | 546 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 667 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 659 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 581 |
| 2015 | £150,000 | £211,950 | 637 |
| 2014 | £134,500 | £190,812 | 613 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 466 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 372 |
| 2011 | £125,000 | £188,702 | 386 |
| 2010 | £136,000 | £213,283 | 370 |
| 2009 | £129,000 | £207,369 | 408 |
| 2008 | £131,300 | £215,228 | 380 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 823 |
| 2006 | £139,000 | £241,286 | 873 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 814 |
| 2004 | £126,000 | £228,841 | 825 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 806 |
| 2002 | £76,000 | £142,993 | 842 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 760 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 648 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 809 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 729 |
| 1997 | £55,800 | £114,435 | 564 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 465 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 383 |
In cash terms the typical NE12 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 84%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2006, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2006 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NE12 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 2003 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £322,000 against £109,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, NE12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £322,000 | 49 | 3,756 |
| Semi-detached | £206,000 | 68 | 6,661 |
| Terraced | £171,500 | 72 | 6,079 |
| Flats | £109,000 | 28 | 2,593 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 430 NE12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 799 sales a year before the financial crisis and 485 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around NE12
The local authority for NE12 is North Tyneside, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £200,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: NE12 (Longbenton)
How much did a house sell for in NE12 (Longbenton)?
Are property prices falling in NE12 (Longbenton)?
Is NE12 (Longbenton) a good place to buy a house?
Will NE12 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in NE12 now
Everything above is what homes in NE12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 46 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the NE12 median sold price.
2% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in NE
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NE area. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
NE12 ranks 20 of 59 in the NE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
NE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NE12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| NE12 9 | £250,000 | 58 |
How NE12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the NE area, and NE12 itself, which ranks 28 of 59 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NE44 | £692,500 | +57% |
| NE69 | £617,500 | +2% |
| NE45 | £557,500 | +35% |
| NE20 | £472,500 | +8% |
| NE18 | £375,000 | +58% |
| NE67 | £335,000 | +4% |
| NE26 | £330,000 | +17% |
| NE46 | £297,200 | +8% |
| NE3 | £290,000 | +26% |
| NE47 | £290,000 | +18% |
| NE43 | £288,500 | -10% |
| NE30 | £280,000 | +18% |
| NE41 | £267,800 | -1% |
| NE2 | £265,800 | +12% |
| NE19 | £265,000 | +8% |
| NE25 | £260,000 | +18% |
| NE66 | £252,500 | +3% |
| NE65 | £251,500 | +12% |
| NE36 | £247,500 | +15% |
| NE27 | £241,200 | +24% |
| NE61 | £240,000 | +14% |
| NE68 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE70 | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE12 (this report) | £200,000 | +18% |
Thinking of selling in NE12? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NE12'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NE12.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NE12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NE12 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.