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Northampton market report NN1 5
The standing NN1 5 (Northampton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,776 HM Land Registry entries for NN1 5 (Northampton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for NN1 5 (Northampton) is £221,000, from 37 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £255,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,720 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,776 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NN1 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NN1 (Northampton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NN1 5 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.
NN1 5 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 37 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NN1 5 home went for £221,000. The mean is £255,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in NN1 5
By floor space, homes in NN1 5 have sold for about £2,720 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NN1 5 22% below the country at large.
A typical NN1 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £221,000 | £221,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 112 |
| 2024 | £248,000 | £263,675 | 115 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 108 |
| 2022 | £237,600 | £278,613 | 152 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 152 |
| 2020 | £226,800 | £294,278 | 108 |
| 2019 | £183,000 | £239,869 | 139 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 140 |
| 2017 | £187,500 | £255,731 | 156 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 172 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 185 |
| 2014 | £162,000 | £229,825 | 146 |
| 2013 | £156,500 | £225,188 | 145 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 101 |
| 2011 | £128,000 | £193,231 | 112 |
| 2010 | £142,500 | £223,477 | 104 |
| 2009 | £131,000 | £210,584 | 100 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 126 |
| 2007 | £147,000 | £249,353 | 287 |
| 2006 | £143,000 | £248,230 | 259 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 243 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 303 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 309 |
| 2002 | £116,400 | £219,006 | 343 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 279 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 213 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 237 |
| 1998 | £59,800 | £120,711 | 270 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 241 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 218 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 164 |
In cash terms the typical NN1 5 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £221,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NN1 5 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 2002 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NN1 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.5% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in NN1 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 280 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around NN1 5
NN1 5 falls under West Northamptonshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,072 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £744 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,665, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Northamptonshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £221,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,072 a month (£12,864 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
The shape of the NN1 5 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NN1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the NN1 district median, NN1 5 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
NN1 5 (Northampton): the questions that come up
Is NN1 5 (Northampton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NN1 5 (Northampton)?
Are property prices falling in NN1 5 (Northampton)?
Are NN1 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in NN1 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 169 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NN1 district, not just NN1 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every NN1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in NN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the NN 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 | — | £291,500 | £385,000 (+32%) | £569,996 (+48%) | £752,854 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £220,250 | £250,000 (+14%) | £287,810 (+15%) | £360,000 (+25%) | £525,000 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £196,000 | £210,000 (+7%) | £239,000 (+14%) | £305,000 (+28%) | £393,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £132,500 | £164,972 (+25%) | £210,000 (+27%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, NN area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NN1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NN1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN1 1 | £145,000 | 9 |
| NN1 2 | £135,000 | 5 |
| NN1 3 | £180,000 | 24 |
| NN1 4 | £209,000 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full NN1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NN1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NN1 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NN1 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the NN1 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NN1 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NN1 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NN1 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.