Northampton house prices: £277,499 town average

There are two honest answers to “what do houses cost in Northampton”, and they are about £15,000 apart. The official index covers West Northamptonshire, a unitary authority that stretches from the town out to Towcester, Brackley and the villages along the M1. Northampton itself, the NN1 to NN5 postcodes where most people actually live and buy, sits below that. This page gives both figures, says where each comes from, and shows what the gap is made of.

The two headline numbers

The average home across West Northamptonshire sold for £292,000 in May 2026, up 1.8% on the £287,000 recorded a year earlier. That is the provisional figure from the UK House Price Index, built from completed sales that HM Land Registry has registered rather than from asking prices.

Narrow the lens to Northampton itself and the number falls. Of the 1,086 residential sales in the NN1 to NN5 postcodes that HM Land Registry had registered for 2026 when we checked on 9 August, the average price paid was £277,499. That is the town, not the district: Northampton, Duston, Kingsthorpe, Abington, Weston Favell, Wootton, Hardingstone and the estates around them.

Neither number is wrong. The district average is pulled up by South Northamptonshire, where Towcester, Brackley, Silverstone and the stone villages carry higher values, and by the rural parishes north of the town. Strip those out and you are left with a market that is, for the East Midlands, mid-priced rather than expensive. West Northamptonshire has the fifth highest average price of any authority in the East Midlands, but that ranking belongs to the whole unitary, not to Northampton.

Northampton prices by property type

This is where the town data earns its keep. The Land Registry records every completed sale with its property type, so the 2026 sales split cleanly:

The shape of that table is the most Northampton thing about it. Terraced houses are the single biggest slice of the market at 37%, a direct legacy of the boot and shoe trade that built street after street of workers’ terraces across Far Cotton, Semilong, St James and Abington. In a lot of comparable towns the semi-detached house dominates. Here the terrace does, and at £226,658 it is what sets the entry point for anyone buying a house rather than a flat.

How the district compares by type

The index publishes the same split for the whole of West Northamptonshire, and lining the two up shows exactly where the district premium sits:

The premium is almost entirely a detached-house story. A detached home costs about £53,000 more across the district than it does inside the town, because the district figure includes the large detached houses of the south Northamptonshire villages. On semis and terraces the gap narrows to under £10,000, and on flats the town is actually slightly ahead, since the district’s flats are mostly Northampton’s flats anyway.

Two of those district categories are moving in opposite directions. Semi-detached homes were up 2.8% over the year to May 2026. Flats and maisonettes were down 1.7%. That split, houses holding up while flats soften, has been the pattern across much of England since mortgage rates rose, and Northampton is not an exception to it.

First-time buyers and home movers

The index also splits buyers rather than buildings. Across West Northamptonshire a first-time buyer paid an average of £243,000 in May 2026, up 2.0% on the £238,000 of a year earlier. A home mover, someone selling one property to buy another, paid £355,000. The £112,000 between those two figures is the real size of the step from a first flat or terrace to a family house in this part of the county.

Buyers using a mortgage paid £291,000 on average and cash buyers £297,000, so there is no meaningful cash discount here, which tends to be the sign of a market with steady rather than distressed demand.

How Northampton sits regionally

Northampton is more expensive than the East Midlands region it belongs to and cheaper than the country as a whole is at its dearer end. The pull that keeps it there is mostly geography: fast trains to London Euston in under an hour and the M1 on the western edge put the town within commuting range of both London and Milton Keynes, and that supports prices in a way that the region’s wages alone would not.

Note the annual change column is left blank for the town. The Land Registry figure here is a straight average of sales registered in 2026, not an index, so it should not be compared with last year’s average to produce a percentage. A change in the mix of what sold, more detached houses in one year than another, would move it without any underlying price movement.

What it means for you

If you are buying, use the type-level numbers rather than the headline. A £277,499 average tells you almost nothing about a specific search; £226,658 for a terrace and £420,484 for a detached house tells you a great deal. Factor in the running costs too, including the council tax band and, if you will be driving into the town centre, what parking now costs, because at this price level the annual bills are a large share of what a home costs to own.

If you are selling, the district being up 1.8% over the year means this is a market that rewards accurate pricing rather than optimistic pricing. Flat and maisonette owners in particular should look at that -1.7% before setting an asking price.

If you are staying put, values have edged up slightly in cash terms over the year, which after several flat years is unremarkable in the best sense.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average house price in Northampton?

Homes in the NN1 to NN5 postcodes sold for an average of £277,499 across the 1,086 sales HM Land Registry had registered for 2026 as at 9 August. The wider West Northamptonshire average was £292,000 in May 2026, because that area also covers Towcester, Brackley, Daventry and the villages.

Are Northampton house prices rising in 2026?

Across West Northamptonshire, yes, but gently: up 1.8% in the year to May 2026. Semi-detached homes rose 2.8% while flats and maisonettes fell 1.7%, so the direction depends on what you own.

How much is a terraced house in Northampton?

An average of £226,658 in 2026. Terraces are the largest part of the Northampton market, making up 37% of all sales, which is unusually high and reflects the town’s shoemaking-era housing stock.

How much is a detached house in Northampton?

£420,484 on average inside the town. Across the whole of West Northamptonshire the figure is £474,000, the difference being the larger detached homes in the south of the district.

Is Northampton expensive compared with the rest of the East Midlands?

West Northamptonshire has the fifth highest average price in the East Midlands and sits about £51,000 above the regional average of £241,000. Northampton town itself is closer to the regional figure than the district ranking suggests.

Where can I check what a specific house sold for?

Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search a street or address for free on HM Land Registry Price Paid.

Sources

• UK House Price Index, West Northamptonshire (ONS / HM Land Registry) for the district average, property-type and buyer-type figures and the regional comparison.
• HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for the Northampton town figures, queried for the NN1 to NN5 postcode districts on 9 August 2026.
• HM Land Registry Price Paid search to check any individual address.

Land Registry data lags completion by a month or two, so the 2026 town figures will rise slightly as more sales are registered. Index figures are provisional and revised. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision.