In this note we prove the Banach space properties of the homogeneous Newton-Sobolev spaces HN 1,p (X) of functions on an unbounded metric measure space X equipped with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincaré inequality, and show that when 1 < p < ∞, even with the lack of global L p -integrability of functions in HN 1,p (X), we have that every bounded sequence in HN 1,p (X) has a strongly convergent convex-combination subsequence. The analogous properties for the inhomogeneous Newton-Sobolev classes N 1,p (X) are proven elsewhere in existing literature (as for example in [19,9]).