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Belford market report NE70
The NE70 (Belford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 992 registered sales in NE70 (Belford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 12 registered 2026 sales put the NE70 (Belford) median at £240,000, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £269,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,510 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 992 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
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
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.
The going rate for a home in NE70
12 sales were registered in NE70 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £240,000. The mean works out at £269,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in NE70
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NE70 costs about £2,510 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NE70 sits 16% below the national market.
A typical NE70 home, priced year by year (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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 12 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 26 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 23 |
| 2023 | £232,200 | £255,131 | 20 |
| 2022 | £252,500 | £296,085 | 42 |
| 2021 | £239,500 | £303,238 | 45 |
| 2020 | £202,500 | £262,748 | 50 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 31 |
| 2018 | £167,000 | £222,614 | 36 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 43 |
| 2016 | £187,000 | £261,615 | 43 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 27 |
| 2014 | £177,500 | £251,815 | 30 |
| 2013 | £116,000 | £166,912 | 26 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 19 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 27 |
| 2010 | £182,500 | £286,207 | 18 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 25 |
| 2008 | £217,500 | £356,528 | 26 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 35 |
| 2006 | £149,500 | £259,513 | 42 |
| 2005 | £158,500 | £282,066 | 32 |
| 2004 | £157,500 | £286,051 | 37 |
| 2003 | £138,800 | £255,703 | 66 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 51 |
| 2001 | £73,500 | £141,300 | 26 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 23 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 30 |
| 1998 | £52,200 | £105,369 | 12 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 28 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 21 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 20 |
In cash terms the typical NE70 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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 (+63.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−32.4%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2006, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £275,000 against £157,500 for a flat, 1.7 times the price.
Median by property type, NE70
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 | £345,000 (2025) | – | 356 |
| Semi-detached | £175,000 (2025) | – | 198 |
| Terraced | £230,000 | 5 | 309 |
| Flats | £157,500 (2006) | – | 31 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in NE70
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 24 NE70 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 39 sales a year before the financial crisis and 25 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.
What kind of market NE70 is
This is a thin market: 24 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.
What tenants pay around NE70
For renting purposes NE70 sits in Northumberland. The ONS average private rent there is £679 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £483 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,107 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Northumberland
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £240,000 median purchase price, a rent of £679 a month (£8,148 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
NE70 (Belford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in NE70 (Belford)?
Is NE70 (Belford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NE70 (Belford)?
Where do NE70 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
What is for sale in NE70 right now
Everything above is what homes in NE70 sold for. The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 66% above the NE70 median sold price.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 NE70 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
Real sold prices by size across the NE area, straight 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
NE70 ranks 48 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.
Winners and losers across the NE area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside NE70, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NE70 7 | £240,000 | 12 |
How NE70 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NE area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £240,000 | +0% |
| NE71 | £240,000 | +54% |
Thinking of selling in NE70? 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 NE70'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.
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Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every NE70 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.