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Median price
£222,500
Eligible sales · trailing 24 months
Per square metre
£2,687/m²
Matched sales · trailing 24 months
5-year change
+5.0%
Rolling 12-month medians, five years apart
From rolling peak
-7.3%
Against the highest rolling 12-month median
Market read
Backworth, Murton (NE27) has a median sale price of £222,500 — around £2,687 for each square metre of floor area. Prices sit 25.8% under the local peak set in 2020. Floor area varies far more than room counts suggest: properties recorded with 2 habitable rooms — bedrooms and receptions together — range from 35 to 62 m² here. At 6.0 times median local earnings, that is an unremarkable ratio. Transaction volumes are down 11% on the preceding period.
Floor-area evidence
Repeat EPC records in this area usually report similar floor areas.
Among 1,224 dwellings with repeat EPCs in Backworth, Murton, the typical recorded floor-area range was 4%. This describes the consistency of repeated records, not the condition or value of an individual home.
Market signal
Each point is the median of sales in the three months ending that month.
Market shape
Lower-quarter price
£141,250
25% of recent eligible sales were below this
Median price
See headline
Same 24-month sale population
Upper-quarter price
£302,227
25% of recent eligible sales were above this
Property types
£337,500
£3,070/m²
£126,500
£2,034/m²
£177,500
£2,327/m²
£150,000
£2,201/m²
Energy-rating evidence
These are matched-sale associations, not a valuation of energy efficiency. Each rating cell contains at least five sales.
£423,652
£2,931/m²
£315,000
£2,973/m²
£218,500
£2,586/m²
£146,500
£1,802/m²
£144,750
£1,987/m²
Energy-transition evidence
This is the latest available EPC record for each identifiable certified dwelling, not a census of every home or an assessment of an individual property.
EPC sample
5,560
Latest certificate to 30 July 2026
Rated D–G
25%
Current EPC rating in the certificate sample
Potentially higher rating
77%
Potential EPC rating exceeds current rating
EPC potential values are modelled certificate outputs, not quotes for retrofit work, future bills, a value uplift or a letting/compliance conclusion. Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register domestic certificates.
The space signal
Property listings describe homes by bedroom count, but that is not recorded in any public dataset. What is recorded is the number of habitable rooms — bedrooms and reception rooms together — and the total floor area. In Backworth, Murton, homes with the same number of habitable rooms vary enormously in size.
| Habitable rooms | Smaller (10th) | Typical | Larger (90th) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 35 m² | 50 m² | 62 m² | 22 |
| 3 | 52 m² | 60 m² | 70 m² | 222 |
| 4 | 59 m² | 75 m² | 90 m² | 378 |
| 5 | 72 m² | 84 m² | 103 m² | 418 |
| 6 | 94 m² | 111 m² | 138 m² | 369 |
| 7 | 106 m² | 126 m² | 153 m² | 170 |
| 8 | 122 m² | 150 m² | 170 m² | 90 |
| 9 | 147 m² | 165 m² | 223 m² | 8 |
The widest spread here is among homes with 2 habitable rooms, ranging from 35 to 62 m². Two properties advertised the same way can differ by more than half their floor area, which is why price per square metre is a more useful comparison than price alone.
Data current to 19 June 2026.