Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,070 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NE70 (Belford) 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 data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
NE70 is the postcode district covering Belford in Belford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where NE70 sits
Click the map to open NE70 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£230,000median sold price, 2026
-4%five-year change (cash)
44sales in the last 12 months
3.5%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in NE70 sells for
The 2026 median in NE70 is £230,000, from 7 registered sales; the mean, £273,300, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so NE70 trades 16% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NE70 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£230,000
£230,000
7
2025
£242,500
£242,500
32
2024
£262,500
£272,573
32
2023
£240,000
£257,543
27
2022
£250,000
£286,307
51
2021
£239,500
£296,156
57
2020
£200,000
£253,444
55
2019
£177,600
£227,354
38
2018
£169,500
£220,670
48
2017
£165,000
£219,788
48
2016
£186,500
£254,822
48
2015
£120,000
£165,600
29
2014
£181,200
£251,060
32
2013
£120,000
£168,635
27
2012
£155,000
£222,813
19
2011
£175,000
£258,013
27
2010
£182,500
£279,523
18
2009
£165,000
£259,044
25
2008
£217,500
£348,202
26
2007
£180,000
£298,199
35
2006
£149,500
£253,452
42
2005
£158,500
£275,479
32
2004
£157,500
£279,370
37
2003
£140,000
£251,890
67
2002
£85,000
£156,192
51
2001
£73,500
£138,000
26
2000
£70,000
£134,167
23
1999
£57,500
£111,918
30
1998
£52,200
£102,909
12
1997
£65,000
£130,189
28
1996
£49,000
£100,925
21
1995
£47,000
£99,785
20
In cash terms the typical NE70 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 34% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NE70 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 (+64.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−33.8%). 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)
−5.2%
−5.2%
5 years (since 2021)
−0.8%
−4.9%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.1%
−1.0%
20 years (since 2006)
+2.2%
−0.5%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
NE70 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 39 sales a year before the financial crisis and 30 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 homes rent for around NE70
NE70 falls under Northumberland, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £679 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £483 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,107, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £679 a month is £8,148 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
Will NE70 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
NE70 ranks 51 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.
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.
Inside NE70, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.