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Duston market report NN5, Northampton
The NN5 (Duston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 25,659 HM Land Registry entries for NN5 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 235 registered 2026 sales put the NN5 (Northampton) median at £260,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £275,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,150 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 25,659 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district NN5 covering Duston, New Duston Kings Heath, St James sits in Northampton. 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 NN5 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.
The going rate for a home in NN5
The 2026 median for NN5 is £260,000, taken from 235 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £275,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in NN5
A square metre of NN5 home has cost about £3,150 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, NN5 sits 9% below the national market.
NN5'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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 235 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 699 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 624 |
| 2023 | £252,200 | £277,106 | 582 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 1,014 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 938 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 606 |
| 2019 | £213,000 | £279,192 | 653 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 673 |
| 2017 | £203,000 | £276,872 | 828 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 993 |
| 2015 | £187,500 | £264,938 | 930 |
| 2014 | £162,000 | £229,825 | 891 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 774 |
| 2012 | £146,000 | £214,894 | 659 |
| 2011 | £146,200 | £220,706 | 538 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 543 |
| 2009 | £136,000 | £218,621 | 608 |
| 2008 | £143,000 | £234,407 | 630 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 1,223 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 1,327 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 1,029 |
| 2004 | £127,000 | £230,657 | 1,009 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 964 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 1,043 |
| 2001 | £77,500 | £148,990 | 954 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 811 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 867 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 759 |
| 1997 | £48,500 | £99,464 | 869 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 811 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 575 |
In cash terms the typical NN5 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NN5 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 (+22.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, NN5
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 | £375,000 | 56 | 5,339 |
| Semi-detached | £262,000 | 85 | 8,529 |
| Terraced | £237,000 | 69 | 8,292 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 25 | 3,499 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.7% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 533 NN5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,045 sales a year before the financial crisis and 631 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 homes rent for around NN5
NN5 falls under West Northamptonshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,072 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £744 a month here against £1,665 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £260,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
Common questions on NN5 (Duston)
Are property prices falling in NN5 (Duston)?
Is NN5 (Duston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NN5 (Duston)?
Where do NN5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 NN5 now
Everything above is what homes in NN5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 178 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the NN5 median sold price.
26% 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.
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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 NN5 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
NN5 ranks 12 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 NN5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NN5 4 | £295,000 | 43 |
| NN5 5 | £240,000 | 27 |
| NN5 6 | £275,000 | 127 |
| NN5 7 | £212,500 | 38 |
How NN5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NN6 | £350,000 | +1% |
| NN12 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in NN5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NN5'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.
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Dig further
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The live map plots every individual NN5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.