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Abthorpe market report NN12 7, Towcester
The NN12 7 (Abthorpe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,831 HM Land Registry entries for NN12 7 (Towcester), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NN12 7 (Towcester) came in at £380,000, out of 35 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £449,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,831 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like NN12 7 is a single group of streets within NN12 (Towcester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NN12 7 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.
NN12 7 sold prices: where the market stands
35 sales were registered in NN12 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £380,000. The mean works out at £449,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in NN12 7
Per square metre, NN12 7 homes have averaged around £3,860 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NN12 7 sits 33% above the national market.
A typical NN12 7 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 91 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 88 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 67 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 97 |
| 2021 | £383,800 | £485,940 | 120 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 84 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 101 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 92 |
| 2017 | £310,500 | £423,491 | 116 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 96 |
| 2015 | £279,800 | £395,357 | 102 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 114 |
| 2013 | £254,800 | £366,632 | 134 |
| 2012 | £198,500 | £292,167 | 92 |
| 2011 | £217,500 | £328,341 | 106 |
| 2010 | £273,000 | £428,134 | 95 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 81 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 81 |
| 2007 | £225,500 | £382,511 | 160 |
| 2006 | £215,500 | £374,080 | 192 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 125 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 146 |
| 2003 | £188,000 | £346,342 | 202 |
| 2002 | £159,000 | £299,157 | 229 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 175 |
| 2000 | £110,800 | £217,445 | 208 |
| 1999 | £89,500 | £178,369 | 164 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 130 |
| 1997 | £96,000 | £196,877 | 157 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 93 |
| 1995 | £68,700 | £149,343 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical NN12 7 home went from £68,700 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NN12 7 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 1997 (+37.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.3% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in NN12 7
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in NN12 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 180 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the NN12 7 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NN12 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within NN12, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around NN12 7
The local authority for NN12 7 is West Northamptonshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,072 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £744 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,665 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Northamptonshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £380,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,072 a month (£12,864 a year) works out at a 3.4% 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.
NN12 7 (Abthorpe): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in NN12 7 (Abthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in NN12 7 (Abthorpe)?
Is NN12 7 (Abthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
Will NN12 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
NN12's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 139 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NN12 district, not just NN12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 NN12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: NN prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NN area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NN12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of NN12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN12 6 | £313,800 | 96 |
| NN12 8 | £405,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full NN12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NN12 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in NN12 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NN12 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the NN12 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NN12 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NN12 7.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NN12 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual NN12 7 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.