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Abthorpe market report NN12 8, Towcester
The standing NN12 8 (Abthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,090 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NN12 8 (Towcester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in NN12 8 (Towcester) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 49 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £476,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,790 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,090 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like NN12 8 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 8 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.
Today's NN12 8 prices, from the sold record
49 sales were registered in NN12 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £405,000. The mean works out at £476,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
NN12 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NN12 8 costs about £3,790 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NN12 8 sits 42% above the national market.
A typical NN12 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 171 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 121 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 104 |
| 2022 | £453,000 | £531,194 | 138 |
| 2021 | £374,000 | £473,532 | 181 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 134 |
| 2019 | £361,200 | £473,447 | 134 |
| 2018 | £355,000 | £473,222 | 160 |
| 2017 | £325,500 | £443,949 | 186 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 162 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 169 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 179 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 182 |
| 2012 | £292,000 | £429,788 | 117 |
| 2011 | £269,200 | £406,388 | 158 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 121 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 108 |
| 2008 | £242,500 | £397,509 | 88 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 171 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 227 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 159 |
| 2004 | £219,000 | £397,747 | 165 |
| 2003 | £207,500 | £382,265 | 195 |
| 2002 | £193,000 | £363,128 | 213 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 173 |
| 2000 | £143,500 | £281,619 | 164 |
| 1999 | £126,500 | £252,108 | 180 |
| 1998 | £124,000 | £250,303 | 180 |
| 1997 | £93,800 | £192,365 | 214 |
| 1996 | £87,800 | £185,166 | 196 |
| 1995 | £91,500 | £198,907 | 191 |
In cash terms the typical NN12 8 home went from £91,500 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 104%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NN12 8 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 1998 (+32.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−14.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NN12 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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, 49 sales completed in NN12 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 183 sales a year before the financial crisis and 117 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.
What tenants pay around NN12 8
The local authority for NN12 8 is West Northamptonshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £405,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,072 a month (£12,864 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
How NN12 8 trades
This is a thin market: 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the NN12 district median, NN12 8 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
NN12 8 (Abthorpe): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in NN12 8 (Abthorpe)?
Is NN12 8 (Abthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NN12 8 (Abthorpe)?
Where do NN12 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
NN12's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 139 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NN12 district, not just NN12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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.
Moving up a bedroom in NN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NN area, from the Land Registry record. 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.
Winners and losers across the NN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NN12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NN12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN12 6 | £313,800 | 96 |
| NN12 7 | £380,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full NN12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NN12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NN12 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NN12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NN12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NN12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NN12 8.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NN12 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NN12 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.