That is the middle of 1,575 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,575 homes sold in three years: 400 detached houses, 566 semi-detached houses, 472 terraced houses and 137 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£255K
median sale · 400 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£221K–£308K
Last 12 months
£251K86 sold
New build
£316K
Semi-detached houses£155K
median sale · 566 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£124K–£185K
Last 12 months
£160K169 sold
New build
£198K
Terraced houses£120K
median sale · 472 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£90K–£150K
Last 12 months
£121K134 sold
New build
£214K
Flats and maisonettes£69K
median sale · 137 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£53K–£85K
Last 12 months
£67K37 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes9%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Blyth’s homes sold for between £110K and £215K
One sale in ten was under £74K and one in ten over £288K. 85% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £155,000, sits in the £150–200K band
1,575 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £35,875 in 1995 to £152,750 in the last 12 months (£121,997 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
426 sales in the last 12 months, against 997 in 2007, the busiest year, and 302 in 2009. Sales fell by 70% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 38% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Blyth costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Blyth, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£68K
£80K
£185K
£190K
£191K
£205K
£251K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£48K
£105K
£110K
£124K
£130K
£160K
Terraced houses
£29K
£30K
£78K
£90K
£95K
£93K
£121K
Flats and maisonettes
£23K
£24K
£62K
£80K
£53K
£57K
£67K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 33% in 2018
3,128 new homes have been sold in Blyth since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £292,495
against £145,000 for a home sold on, 102% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 5.4% sold leasehold in Blyth. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Plessey Road is Blyth’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
112 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 24 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Plessey Road
NE24
33
£125,000
Mixed
2
Crayford Street
NE24
32
£234,832
Mixed · new builds
3
Blackwood Road
NE24
27
£297,495
Mostly detached houses · new builds
4
Haggerston Road
NE24
25
£150,000
Mixed
5
Dilston Road
NE24
22
£301,495
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Bensom Way
NE24
20
£311,701
Mostly detached houses · new builds
7
Font Drive
NE24
17
£161,495
Mixed
8
Heather Lea
NE24
16
£200,000
Mixed
9
Nautilus Place
NE24
15
£199,950
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
10
Kings Gardens
NE24
15
£110,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Newsham Road
NE24
14
£77,750
Mixed
12
Druridge Drive
NE24
13
£120,000
Mixed
13
Blagdon Drive
NE24
12
£183,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Princess Louise Road
NE24
12
£78,500
Mixed
15
Disraeli Street
NE24
12
£46,500
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Britannia Drive: £390,000
Blyth median£155K
Britannia Drive£390K
Kirkwall Close£325K
Sweetbriar Way£320K
Bensom Way£312K
Dilston Road£301K
Cheapest streets
Disraeli Street: £46,500
Blyth median£155K
Disraeli Street£47K
Wright Street£50K
Percy Street£51K
Wellington Street£55K
Ridley Terrace£57K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Northumberland
Blyth is the 15th most expensive of 20 towns in Northumberland
Blyth is in the middle of Northumberland’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Blyth
What is the average house price in Blyth?
The median home in Blyth sold for £155,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,575 standard sales (£152,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £255,000, semi-detached houses £155,000, terraced houses £120,000 and flats and maisonettes £68,500.
Are house prices going up in Blyth?
The median was £148,500 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£160,000), and £152,750 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Blyth each year?
426 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 627 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Blyth?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Britannia Drive (NE24, £390,000), Kirkwall Close (NE24, £325,375) and Sweetbriar Way (NE24, £320,000).
How much does a new build cost in Blyth?
New homes sold for a median £292,495 over three years, against £145,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 9% of sales.
Is Blyth expensive for Northumberland?
Blyth is the 14th most expensive of 20 towns of 2,500 or more in Northumberland by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.