Green premium in NE70
Energy-efficient houses here sell for +11.6% per m² more than inefficient houses — age-adjusted across 100 sales.
In NE70, EPC-rated A-C houses sold for a median £2,579/m² against £2,312/m² for D-G-rated houses — a difference of +11.6% per square metre (too few sales in any single construction era here to age-adjust reliably, so this is the direct comparison). Figures cover HM Land Registry sales in the last 5 years matched to EPC certificates by address.
Why age-adjusted, not raw
A city-wide comparison of every efficient sale against every inefficient one is misleading on its own: older homes carry their own price premium or discount that has nothing to do with energy efficiency, and EPC ratings correlate strongly with build era. A Victorian terrace rated D can still out-price a 2005-built terrace rated B, simply because of where and when it was built — not because being less efficient made it more valuable.
How this compares to national projections
A national dataset published July 2026 models a uniform England-wide retrofit premium of +5.8% (medium retrofit) to +10.9% (predicted retrofit) by 2050 — Panakaduwa, Figshare 2026 (CC BY 4.0). That figure is a single projection assumption applied equally to every English dwelling type — not a measurement, and not specific to NE70. The +11.6% above is what NE70 buyers actually paid, today, and — like most outcodes we've measured — it doesn't match the national assumption. The premium varies by area and by construction era in ways a single national number can't capture.
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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid · MHCLG EPC Register · Open Government Licence v3.0. Reliable from 20+ sales per band, last 5 years.