Kettering house prices

Kettering house prices are built from 71,987 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +43.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.1%.

HM Land Registry71,987 sales9,033 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Kettering 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Kettering is £268,188 in 2025; the lowest is £41,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £41,500 to £259,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £92,150, so the real change over the whole record is +181.1% — about +3.39% 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: +43.9% in cash against +3.1% 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.

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.

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 Kettering values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Kettering is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 14,407 certificates cover Kettering, and their median floor area is 83 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +9.2%. 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.

4,935 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67,052 freehold — 6.9% 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 £90,000 and the median freehold sale £144,000 — a gap of +60.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +37.1%. 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 5,258 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Northamptonshire, 51.7% of 169,866 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Northamptonshire at £985 a month as of Jun 2026 — £679 for a one-bedroom home and £1,060 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £136,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.63% 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 NN14, 146 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 63 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 359,525 residents the 2021 census counted in North Northamptonshire, that is 0.41 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.

The 2021 census counted 359,525 residents in North Northamptonshire across 148,918 households. 66.2% of those households own their home and 33.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

22 state and independent schools have a NN14 postcode: 21 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Kettering sits below that national figure — -13.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,523 per square metre, across 9,033 of the 71,987 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 £2,600 to £19,500,000. 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.

Kettering sits in North Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Northamptonshire at 7.3 times median local earnings of £35,745 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.

Streets in Kettering

• High Street1,004 sales
• Station Road631 sales
• Wood Street486 sales
• Bath Road482 sales
• Havelock Street476 sales
• Regent Street447 sales
• Main Street432 sales
• Mill Road424 sales
• King Street415 sales
• Kingsley Avenue387 sales
• St Johns Road348 sales
• Gladstone Street345 sales
• Rushton Road327 sales
• Wellington Street326 sales
• Kettering Road317 sales
• St Peters Avenue313 sales
• Churchill Way294 sales
• Church Street293 sales
• Manor Road288 sales
• Union Street288 sales
• Harrington Road276 sales
• Windmill Avenue275 sales
• Stamford Road273 sales
• Duke Street260 sales
• Brambleside259 sales
• Queen Street254 sales
• Pioneer Avenue253 sales
• Russell Street245 sales
• Northampton Road242 sales
• Princes Street242 sales
• Ironwood Avenue234 sales
• Spencer Street233 sales
• Deeble Road227 sales
• Hawthorn Road223 sales
• Polwell Lane223 sales
• Barnwell Street219 sales
• Merrivale Close219 sales
• Queensway211 sales
• New Street210 sales
• Dunkirk Avenue206 sales
• Thistle Drive197 sales
• Thurston Drive197 sales
• Finedon Street195 sales
• Pipers Hill Road194 sales
• Reservoir Road191 sales
• Avondale Road189 sales
• Stratfield Way189 sales
• Alexandra Street187 sales
• Charles Street187 sales
• London Road184 sales
• Gordon Street183 sales
• Old Gorse Way182 sales
• Broadway179 sales
• Rockingham Road178 sales
• Pytchley Road177 sales
• Midland Road176 sales
• Springfield Avenue176 sales
• Neale Avenue175 sales
• William Street175 sales
• Lower Street174 sales

Postcode districts covering Kettering

• NN14£164,000 median
• NN15£147,000 median
• NN16£100,000 median

What is the average house price in Kettering?

The median price paid in Kettering across every sale on the register is £136,950. 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 Kettering?

71,987 sales are on record for Kettering, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Kettering house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +43.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Kettering house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £268,188, set in 2025. 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 Kettering?

£1,523 per square metre, from the 9,033 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 19 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, “Kettering 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.