Market Harborough house prices are built from 24,517 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £195,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +35.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.3%.
Median price paid
£195,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+35.1%
Change in real terms
-3.3%
Median per m²
£2,351
HM Land Registry24,517 sales4,779 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Market Harborough prices moved
The chart tracks the median Market Harborough house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £65,000 | £144,331 |
| 2000s | 10 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 10 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 2020s | 7 | £339,998 | £347,389 |
The highest yearly median on record for Market Harborough is £366,495 in 2023; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £327,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +168.2% — about +3.23% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +35.1% in cash against -3.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Fern Ley Close | 29 Jun 2026 | Detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 7B Ashley Road | 25 Jun 2026 | Detached | £620,000 | £620,000 |
| 18 Wartnaby Street | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 23 Guiver Drive | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £304,000 | £304,000 |
| 45 Granville Street | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £223,000 | £223,000 |
| 7 Heygate Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £250,525 | £250,525 |
| 21 Coales Gardens | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 23 Jerwood Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £235,000 | £235,000 |
| 69 Owen Way | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 31 Fleetwood Gardens | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £344,000 | £344,000 |
| 45 Hopton Fields | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 38 Medbourne Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £885,000 | £885,000 |
| 1 Frank Burditt Drive | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £665,000 | £665,000 |
| 18 Lindsey Gardens | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 2 Peake Close | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| 80 Station Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 4 the Hill | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 12 Charles Street | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 19 Harborough Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 94 Station Road | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £477,000 | £477,000 |
| 1 Arden Close | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 22 Medbourne Road | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| 29 Logan Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 76 Main Street | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £218,000 | £218,000 |
| FLAT 35 MAXWELL LODGE Northampton Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Market Harborough values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Fern Ley Close | £113,000 (2001) | £385,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 7B Ashley Road | £362,000 (2002) | £620,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 18 Wartnaby Street | £69,000 (1996) | £360,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 45 Granville Street | £41,000 (1997) | £223,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 23 Guiver Drive | £250,000 (2021) | £304,000 (2026) | +4.0% | -0.8% |
| 21 Coales Gardens | £172,995 (2000) | £575,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 23 Jerwood Way | £65,000 (1999) | £235,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 45 Hopton Fields | £52,000 (1999) | £275,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 69 Owen Way | £504,995 (2022) | £510,000 (2026) | +0.2% | -3.4% |
| 31 Fleetwood Gardens | £190,000 (2010) | £344,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 18 Lindsey Gardens | £35,500 (1996) | £255,000 (2026) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 38 Medbourne Road | £735,000 (2021) | £885,000 (2026) | +3.8% | -1.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Market Harborough is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 10,771 | 43.9% | £285,000 | £5,000 – £3,600,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6,273 | 25.6% | £175,000 | £15,000 – £1,150,000 |
| Terraced | 5,543 | 22.6% | £140,000 | £4,000 – £1,250,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,930 | 7.9% | £135,000 | £6,500 – £590,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Market Harborough
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,617 certificates cover Market Harborough, and their median floor area is 89 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +17.1%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 89 m² | about 958 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 67 m² | about 721 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 126 m² | about 1,356 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 18.9% | 1,064 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 14.8% | 833 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Market Harborough
2,177 of the sales on record are leasehold and 22,340 freehold — 8.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £130,000 and the median freehold sale £205,000 — a gap of +57.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2,177 | 8.9% | £130,000 |
| Freehold | 22,340 | 91.1% | £205,000 |
| New build | 5,010 | 20.4% | £232,500 |
| Existing home | 19,507 | 79.6% | £188,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +23.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 1,147 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Market Harborough
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Harborough, 50.4% of 45,538 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 349 | 0.8% |
| B | 9,947 | 21.8% |
| C | 12,670 | 27.8% |
| D | 14,712 | 32.3% |
| E | 5,691 | 12.5% |
| F | 1,712 | 3.8% |
| G | 457 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Harborough at £962 a month as of Jun 2026 — £706 for a one-bedroom home and £1,104 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £195,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.92% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of LE16, 36 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 16 violent, 1 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.6 times quieter.
Against the 97,625 residents the 2021 census counted in Harborough, that is 0.37 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Market Harborough
The 2021 census counted 97,625 residents in Harborough across 40,414 households. 77.8% of those households own their home and 22.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a LE16 postcode: 16 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Robert Smyth Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,349 |
| Welland Park Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,014 |
| Farndon Fields Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 410 |
| Market Harborough Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 392 |
| Meadowdale Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 389 |
| Little Bowden School | Primary | Community school | 368 |
| Ridgeway Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 234 |
| Church Langton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 190 |
| Bringhurst Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 157 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Market Harborough Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Corby Rail Station | Rail | 14.2 km |
| Kettering Rail Station | Rail | 15.3 km |
| South Wigston Rail Station | Rail | 19.2 km |
Section 09
How Market Harborough compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Market Harborough sits above that national figure — +23.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,351 per square metre, across 4,779 of the 24,517 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £4,000 to £3,600,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Market Harborough sits in Harborough, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Harborough at 10.4 times median local earnings of £31,890 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Market Harborough
- Main Street989 sales
- Northampton Road469 sales
- St Marys Road315 sales
- Tymecrosse Gardens253 sales
- Logan Street248 sales
- Bath Street233 sales
- High Street216 sales
- Harborough Road192 sales
- Leicester Road191 sales
- The Green187 sales
- Caxton Street185 sales
- Thatch Meadow Drive177 sales
- Rainsborough Gardens166 sales
- Cromwell Crescent163 sales
- Highfield Street163 sales
- Tungstone Way152 sales
- Ashley Way151 sales
- Alvington Way149 sales
- Angell Drive149 sales
- Lathkill Street148 sales
- Granville Street147 sales
- Nelson Street147 sales
- Park Drive143 sales
- Welland Park Road143 sales
- Harvest Road141 sales
- Symington Way138 sales
- Burnmill Road133 sales
- The Furlongs133 sales
- Middlebrook Green132 sales
- School Lane132 sales
- Clarence Street128 sales
- Coales Gardens128 sales
- Lubenham Hill126 sales
- Welland Avenue120 sales
- Shelland Close117 sales
- Stuart Road116 sales
- Heygate Street114 sales
- Woodbreach Drive114 sales
- Station Road112 sales
- Nithsdale Avenue108 sales
- Western Avenue108 sales
- Hammond Way107 sales
- Jordan Close107 sales
- Gardiner Street106 sales
- Scotland Road106 sales
- Patrick Street105 sales
- Britannia Walk104 sales
- Hartland Drive104 sales
- Coventry Road103 sales
- Norbury Close103 sales
- The Headlands103 sales
- Willow Crescent102 sales
- Arden Way101 sales
- Freshman Way101 sales
- Hearth Street100 sales
- Ryelands Close100 sales
- Gladstone Street97 sales
- Steeplechase Way97 sales
- Dunmore Road96 sales
- Deene Close95 sales
Postcode districts covering Market Harborough
- LE16£195,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Market Harborough?
The median price paid in Market Harborough across every sale on the register is £195,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Market Harborough?
24,517 sales are on record for Market Harborough, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Market Harborough house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +35.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Market Harborough house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £366,495, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Market Harborough?
£2,351 per square metre, from the 4,779 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Market Harborough house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.