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Brackmills market report NN4 8, Northampton
The NN4 8 (Brackmills) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,752 HM Land Registry entries for NN4 8 (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 NN4 8 (Northampton) is £245,000, from 59 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £249,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,970 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,752 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NN4 8 is one sector of NN4 (Northampton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NN4 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.
What a home in NN4 8 sells for
The 2026 median for NN4 8 is £245,000, taken from 59 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £249,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
NN4 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of NN4 8 sales average about £2,970 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NN4 8 trades 14% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical NN4 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 178 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 141 |
| 2023 | £227,500 | £249,967 | 159 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 222 |
| 2021 | £214,000 | £270,952 | 273 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 154 |
| 2019 | £189,000 | £247,734 | 175 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 223 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 247 |
| 2016 | £163,000 | £228,039 | 317 |
| 2015 | £145,500 | £205,592 | 276 |
| 2014 | £136,000 | £192,940 | 262 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 221 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 186 |
| 2011 | £122,200 | £184,475 | 174 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 160 |
| 2009 | £119,000 | £191,294 | 145 |
| 2008 | £131,000 | £214,737 | 239 |
| 2007 | £140,000 | £237,479 | 485 |
| 2006 | £133,000 | £230,871 | 515 |
| 2005 | £129,000 | £229,568 | 597 |
| 2004 | £124,000 | £225,208 | 517 |
| 2003 | £109,500 | £201,726 | 479 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 573 |
| 2001 | £78,200 | £150,336 | 462 |
| 2000 | £71,400 | £140,123 | 482 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 425 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 414 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 429 |
| 1996 | £43,500 | £91,740 | 328 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 235 |
In cash terms the typical NN4 8 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 182%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NN4 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 2003 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in NN4 8
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
NN4 8 recorded 59 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 514 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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.
The shape of the NN4 8 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NN4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the NN4 district median, NN4 8 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around NN4 8
NN4 8 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.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,072 a month (£12,864 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
What people ask about NN4 8 (Brackmills)
Is NN4 8 (Brackmills) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NN4 8 (Brackmills)?
Are property prices falling in NN4 8 (Brackmills)?
Are NN4 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in NN4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 130 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NN4 district, not just NN4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
48% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every NN4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in NN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NN area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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 NN4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NN4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN4 0 | £280,000 | 67 |
| NN4 5 | £325,000 | 27 |
| NN4 6 | £339,000 | 74 |
| NN4 7 | £286,500 | 4 |
| NN4 9 | £312,500 | 46 |
Zoom out to the full NN4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NN4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NN4 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NN4 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the NN4 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NN4 8 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 NN4 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about NN4 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual NN4 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.