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Abthorpe market report NN12, Towcester
The standing NN12 (Abthorpe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 15,988 registered sales in NN12 (Towcester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NN12 (Towcester) came in at £344,300, out of 180 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £393,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,910 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 15,988 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district NN12 covering Towcester, Abthorpe, Caswell sits in Towcester. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where NN12 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 prices, from the sold record
Across 180 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) NN12 home went for £344,300. The mean is £393,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in NN12
By floor space, homes in NN12 have sold for about £3,910 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NN12 runs 21% above it.
NN12's median sold price, 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 | £344,300 | £344,300 | 180 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 595 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 589 |
| 2023 | £345,000 | £379,071 | 521 |
| 2022 | £376,000 | £440,903 | 611 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 711 |
| 2020 | £330,000 | £428,182 | 542 |
| 2019 | £328,000 | £429,929 | 558 |
| 2018 | £336,000 | £447,894 | 518 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 500 |
| 2016 | £288,000 | £402,915 | 443 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 415 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 452 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 462 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 306 |
| 2011 | £223,000 | £336,644 | 385 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 331 |
| 2009 | £192,000 | £308,642 | 300 |
| 2008 | £209,000 | £342,595 | 251 |
| 2007 | £207,500 | £351,978 | 593 |
| 2006 | £198,200 | £344,050 | 698 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 469 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 503 |
| 2003 | £173,000 | £318,708 | 591 |
| 2002 | £147,000 | £276,579 | 693 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 553 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 563 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 556 |
| 1998 | £85,500 | £172,588 | 557 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 629 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 509 |
| 1995 | £77,200 | £167,821 | 404 |
In cash terms the typical NN12 home went from £77,200 in 1995 to £344,300 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 105%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NN12 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 2000 (+23.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−13.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £475,000 against £185,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, NN12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £475,000 | 69 | 7,352 |
| Semi-detached | £316,500 | 56 | 5,023 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 39 | 2,811 |
| Flats | £185,000 | 16 | 802 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 421 NN12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 499 sales a year recently, against 583 a year before 2008. 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 market
Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, NN12 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of NN12
NN12 falls under West Northamptonshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,072 a month is £12,864 a year, which against the £344,300 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
NN12 (Abthorpe): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in NN12 (Abthorpe)?
Are property prices falling in NN12 (Abthorpe)?
Is NN12 (Abthorpe) a good place to buy a house?
Are NN12 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
What is for sale in NN12 right now
Everything above is what homes in NN12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 139 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% above the NN12 median sold price.
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
Real sold prices by size across the NN area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
NN12 ranks 19 of 19 in the NN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, NN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside NN12, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN12 6 | £313,800 | 96 |
| NN12 7 | £380,000 | 35 |
| NN12 8 | £405,000 | 49 |
How NN12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NN6 | £350,000 | +1% |
| NN12 (this report) | £344,300 | +0% |
| NN13 | £342,000 | +9% |
| NN7 | £335,000 | +8% |
| NN4 | £300,000 | +7% |
| NN29 | £283,800 | +11% |
| NN14 | £275,000 | +6% |
| NN11 | £272,000 | +6% |
| NN3 | £270,000 | +6% |
| NN15 | £261,000 | +4% |
| NN5 | £260,000 | +4% |
| NN2 | £249,600 | +4% |
| NN9 | £246,800 | +1% |
| NN8 | £235,000 | +5% |
| NN10 | £235,000 | +4% |
| NN17 | £235,000 | +6% |
| NN18 | £228,000 | +7% |
| NN1 | £205,000 | +3% |
| NN16 | £196,000 | +2% |
Selling a home in NN12? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NN12's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NN12.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NN12 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NN12 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.