NN2 8 house prices are built from 8,578 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £159,998. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +37.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.5%.
Median price paid
£159,998
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+37.5%
Change in real terms
-1.5%
Median per m²
£2,015
HM Land Registry8,578 sales1,733 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How NN2 8 prices moved
The chart tracks the median NN2 8 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 | £57,500 | £127,677 |
| 2000s | 10 | £138,500 | £252,306 |
| 2010s | 10 | £173,000 | £243,930 |
| 2020s | 7 | £285,000 | £291,196 |
The highest yearly median on record for NN2 8 is £299,950 in 2022; the lowest is £51,995 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £52,000 to £275,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £115,465, so the real change over the whole record is +138.2% — about +2.84% 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: +37.5% in cash against -1.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Central Avenue | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £192,500 | £192,500 |
| 3 Whitehills Crescent | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £105,000 |
| 40 Ash Rise | 8 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 171 Sherwood Avenue | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| DAVENPORT Moulton Lane | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £1,990,000 | £1,990,000 |
| 219 Reynard Way | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| 14 Stubble Close | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 9 Cottage Close | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 16 Howard Lane | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £609,500 | £609,500 |
| 7 Folly Way | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 58 Kentstone Close | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 169 Sherwood Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 110 Sherwood Avenue | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 21 Rookery Lane | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 54 Chalcombe Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £218,000 | £218,000 |
| 9 Crawley Close | 21 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 4 Dixon Road | 5 May 2026 | Detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 6 Penfold Close | 5 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 56 Foxgrove Avenue | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 5 Ringwood Close | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 18 Highwayman Close | 29 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £328,000 | £328,000 |
| 9 Pegasus Close | 29 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £110,250 | £110,250 |
| 4 Devonshire Close | 24 Apr 2026 | Detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| 16 Haycroft Walk | 20 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 65 Rookery Lane | 20 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £258,000 | £258,000 |
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 NN2 8 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Central Avenue | £46,000 (1997) | £192,500 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 3 Whitehills Crescent | £30,250 (1997) | £105,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 171 Sherwood Avenue | £59,000 (1995) | £380,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 219 Reynard Way | £185,000 (2007) | £310,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| DAVENPORT Moulton Lane | £635,000 (2018) | £1,990,000 (2026) | +15.3% | +11.3% |
| 9 Cottage Close | £84,000 (2000) | £305,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 110 Sherwood Avenue | £141,000 (2013) | £270,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 58 Kentstone Close | £88,750 (1997) | £390,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 54 Chalcombe Road | £110,000 (2013) | £218,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.4% |
| 16 Howard Lane | £400,000 (2018) | £609,500 (2026) | +5.4% | +1.7% |
| 7 Folly Way | £374,950 (2020) | £410,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -2.8% |
| 169 Sherwood Avenue | £293,000 (2023) | £345,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. NN2 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 3,947 | 46.0% | £150,000 | £11,700 – £1,425,000 |
| Detached | 2,702 | 31.5% | £230,000 | £28,500 – £1,990,000 |
| Terraced | 1,556 | 18.1% | £127,000 | £8,000 – £755,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 373 | 4.3% | £110,000 | £19,600 – £380,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in NN2 8
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,791 certificates cover NN2 8, and their median floor area is 81 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +6.6%. 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 | 81 m² | about 872 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 103 m² | about 1,109 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 21.5% | 385 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.8% | 86 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in NN2 8
406 of the sales on record are leasehold and 8,172 freehold — 4.7% 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 £107,250 and the median freehold sale £162,500 — a gap of +51.5%. 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 | 406 | 4.7% | £107,250 |
| Freehold | 8,172 | 95.3% | £162,500 |
| New build | 922 | 10.7% | £285,000 |
| Existing home | 7,656 | 89.3% | £151,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +88.7%. 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 481 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 NN2 8
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Northamptonshire, 49.6% of 200,029 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,503 | 0.8% |
| B | 31,909 | 16.0% |
| C | 65,754 | 32.9% |
| D | 69,165 | 34.6% |
| E | 23,959 | 12.0% |
| F | 6,212 | 3.1% |
| G | 1,527 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Northamptonshire at £1,075 a month as of Jun 2026 — £746 for a one-bedroom home and £1,157 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £159,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.06% 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 NN2, 319 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 121 violent, 17 burglary, 20 vehicle-related and 85 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.
Against the 425,725 residents the 2021 census counted in West Northamptonshire, that is 0.75 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 NN2 8
The 2021 census counted 425,725 residents in West Northamptonshire across 172,639 households. 66.4% of those households own their home and 33.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a NN2 postcode: 11 primary, 2 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsthorpe College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,415 |
| Malcolm Arnold Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,278 |
| Kingsthorpe Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 471 |
| Whitehills Primary School | Primary | Community school | 415 |
| All Saints CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 402 |
| Kingsley Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 401 |
| Malcolm Arnold Preparatory School | Primary | Free schools | 401 |
| Sunnyside Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 364 |
| Buckton Fields Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 289 |
| The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 282 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Northampton Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Long Buckby Rail Station | Rail | 13.8 km |
| Wellingborough Rail Station | Rail | 15.2 km |
| Kettering Rail Station | Rail | 18.1 km |
Section 09
How NN2 8 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. NN2 8 sits above that national figure — +1.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,015 per square metre, across 1,733 of the 8,578 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 £8,000 to £1,990,000. 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.
NN2 8 sits in West Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Northamptonshire at 7.8 times median local earnings of £38,313 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
Other sectors in NN2
The wider district is NN2.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in NN2 8?
The median price paid in NN2 8 across every sale on the register is £159,998. 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 NN2 8?
8,578 sales are on record for NN2 8, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have NN2 8 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were NN2 8 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £299,950, set in 2022. 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 NN2 8?
£2,015 per square metre, from the 1,733 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 12 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, “NN2 8 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.