Lower Street, Kettering house prices

Lower Street, Kettering house prices are built from 174 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 26 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved -27.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -43.8%.

HM Land Registry174 sales32 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Feb 2026

The chart tracks the median Lower Street, Kettering house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. 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 Lower Street, Kettering is £250,000 in 2012; the lowest is £46,500 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £46,500 to £181,250.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £98,594, so the real change over the whole record is +113.0% — about +3.07% 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: -27.5% in cash against -43.8% 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 Lower Street, 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. Lower Street, Kettering is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

60 of the sales on record are leasehold and 114 freehold — 34.5% 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 £128,000 and the median freehold sale £155,975 — a gap of +21.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.6%. 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 9 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 £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.76% 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. Lower Street, Kettering sits below that national figure — -14.3%.

Within Kettering the street ranks 890 of 1505 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £136,950 (-1.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,656 per square metre, across 32 of the 174 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 £17,500 to £850,000. 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.

Lower Street, 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 nearby

• Station Road£130,000 median
• Main Street£249,950 median
• Rushton Road£133,000 median
• Kettering Road£160,000 median
• Church Street£238,000 median
• Manor Road£264,950 median
• Harrington Road£150,000 median
• Stamford Road£120,000 median
• Brambleside£113,000 median
• Queen Street£109,750 median
• Ironwood Avenue£204,623 median
• Spencer Street£105,000 median
• New Street£81,500 median
• Dunkirk Avenue£157,250 median
• Thistle Drive£174,995 median
• Old Gorse Way£245,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 107 Lower Street5 sales
• THE LONG HOUSE Lower Street5 sales
• 102 Lower Street4 sales
• 5 Lower Street4 sales
• 93 Lower Street4 sales
• 100 Lower Street4 sales
• FLAT 22, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street4 sales
• 96A Lower Street4 sales
• FLAT 9, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street4 sales
• 113 Lower Street4 sales
• 117 Lower Street4 sales
• WILLOW VIEW, 5 Lower Street4 sales
• 30 Lower Street4 sales
• 111 Lower Street4 sales
• WHITEHART HOUSE Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 13, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 6, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 15, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• THE BUNGALOW Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 11, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• 96 Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 5, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• FLAT 8, LILLYCOURT HOUSE, 74 Lower Street3 sales
• 97 Lower Street3 sales

Back to Kettering house prices.

What is the average house price in Lower Street, Kettering?

The median price paid in Lower Street, Kettering across every sale on the register is £135,000. 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 Lower Street, Kettering?

174 sales are on record for Lower Street, Kettering, the most recent completing on 26 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Lower Street, Kettering house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -27.5% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -43.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Lower Street, Kettering house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2012. 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 Lower Street, Kettering?

£1,656 per square metre, from the 32 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 26 Feb 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, “Lower Street, 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.