School Lane, Market Harborough house prices are built from 132 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 9 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £220,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +100.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +54.4%.
Median price paid
£220,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+100.8%
Change in real terms
+54.4%
Median per m²
£1,118
HM Land Registry132 sales8 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Apr 2026
Section 01
How School Lane, Market Harborough prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Lane, Market Harborough house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2021. 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 | 3 | £72,750 | £161,539 |
| 2000s | 5 | £195,000 | £355,233 |
| 2010s | 4 | £228,500 | £322,185 |
| 2020s | 1 | £480,000 | £490,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Lane, Market Harborough is £480,000 in 2021; the lowest is £66,000 in 1998. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £72,750 to £480,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £157,812, so the real change over the whole record is +284.3% — about +5.53% 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: +100.8% in cash against +54.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £222,500 | £222,500 |
| 8 | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £815,000 | £815,000 |
| 24 | 30 Sep 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 1 | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| 4 | 13 Sep 2024 | Detached | £580,000 | £610,299 |
| Twin Pines, 12 | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £505,000 | £531,381 |
| Laurel House, 16b | 23 Mar 2023 | Detached | £1,445,000 | £1,561,264 |
| 42 | 25 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 8 | 17 Aug 2022 | Detached | £610,000 | £706,738 |
| 18 | 22 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £249,750 | £315,544 |
| 8 | 28 Jun 2021 | Detached | £641,000 | £809,866 |
| 8a | 25 Jun 2021 | Detached | £610,000 | £770,699 |
| 14 | 18 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £368,000 | £464,946 |
| 10 | 14 May 2021 | Detached | £480,000 | £606,452 |
| 6 | 10 Mar 2021 | Detached | £580,000 | £732,796 |
| 4 | 10 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| 11a | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| Churchill House, 16a | 12 Feb 2021 | Detached | £950,000 | £1,200,269 |
| 5 | 3 Nov 2020 | Detached | £310,000 | £401,377 |
| 12a | 26 Jun 2020 | Detached | £400,000 | £517,906 |
| 23 | 14 Feb 2020 | Detached | £288,000 | £372,893 |
| 11 | 21 Jun 2019 | Detached | £298,000 | £389,777 |
| Symington House, 14 | 14 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £225,000 | £299,858 |
| 5 | 20 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 25 | 10 Apr 2018 | Detached | £270,000 | £359,830 |
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 School Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 School Lane | £185,000 (2000) | £222,500 (2026) | +0.7% | -1.9% |
| 1 School Lane | £250,000 (2000) | £425,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.6% |
| 4 School Lane | £80,000 (1996) | £580,000 (2024) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
| TWIN PINES, 12 School Lane | £370,000 (2012) | £505,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 18 School Lane | £66,000 (1998) | £249,750 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 14 School Lane | £285,000 (2008) | £368,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| 10 School Lane | £33,000 (1999) | £480,000 (2021) | +12.9% | +10.5% |
| 6 School Lane | £355,000 (2007) | £580,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.2% |
| CHURCHILL HOUSE, 16A School Lane | £880,000 (2017) | £950,000 (2021) | +1.9% | +0.1% |
| 5 School Lane | £170,000 (1995) | £310,000 (2020) | +2.4% | +0.2% |
| 12A School Lane | £302,500 (2009) | £400,000 (2020) | +2.6% | +0.4% |
| 23 School Lane | £105,000 (1996) | £288,000 (2020) | +4.3% | +2.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School Lane, 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 | 69 | 52.3% | £295,000 | £55,000 – £1,445,000 |
| Terraced | 32 | 24.2% | £158,000 | £33,000 – £405,000 |
| Semi-detached | 31 | 23.5% | £173,000 | £40,000 – £475,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Lane, Market Harborough
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 132 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 132 | 100.0% | £220,000 |
| New build | 5 | 3.8% | £295,000 |
| Existing home | 127 | 96.2% | £220,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +34.1%. 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 3 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 School Lane, 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 £220,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.25% 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 School Lane, 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 School Lane, Market Harborough compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Lane, Market Harborough sits above that national figure — +39.7%.
Within Market Harborough the street ranks 302 of 590 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £195,000 (+12.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,118 per square metre, across 8 of the 132 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 £33,000 to £1,445,000. 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.
School Lane, 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 nearby
- Main Street£280,000 median
- Northampton Road£148,000 median
- St Marys Road£129,000 median
- Tymecrosse Gardens£148,000 median
- Logan Street£125,000 median
- Bath Street£122,000 median
- High Street£230,000 median
- Harborough Road£240,000 median
- Leicester Road£80,000 median
- The Green£240,000 median
- Caxton Street£132,000 median
- Thatch Meadow Drive£145,000 median
- Rainsborough Gardens£175,000 median
- Cromwell Crescent£167,000 median
- Highfield Street£120,000 median
- Tungstone Way£194,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 8 School Lane10 sales
- 4 School Lane8 sales
- 23 School Lane8 sales
- 11 School Lane7 sales
- 12 School Lane7 sales
- 18 School Lane6 sales
- 5 School Lane5 sales
- SYMINGTON HOUSE, 14 School Lane5 sales
- 10 School Lane4 sales
- 20 School Lane4 sales
- 33 School Lane4 sales
- 7 School Lane4 sales
- 1 School Lane3 sales
- 52 School Lane3 sales
- 2 School Lane3 sales
- BUADANS BARN, FIRS FARM School Lane3 sales
- TWIN PINES, 12 School Lane2 sales
- 14 School Lane2 sales
- 6 School Lane2 sales
- CHURCHILL HOUSE, 16A School Lane2 sales
- 12A School Lane2 sales
- 16 School Lane2 sales
- 41 School Lane2 sales
- 35A School Lane2 sales
Back to Market Harborough house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Lane, Market Harborough?
The median price paid in School Lane, Market Harborough across every sale on the register is £220,000. 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 School Lane, Market Harborough?
132 sales are on record for School Lane, Market Harborough, the most recent completing on 9 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Lane, Market Harborough house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +100.8% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +54.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Lane, Market Harborough house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £480,000, set in 2021. 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 School Lane, Market Harborough?
£1,118 per square metre, from the 8 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 9 Apr 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, “School Lane, 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.