Birchfield Road East, Northampton house prices are built from 281 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 12 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +131.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +64.7%.
Median price paid
£130,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+131.2%
Change in real terms
+64.7%
Median per m²
£1,548
HM Land Registry281 sales69 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Birchfield Road East, Northampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Birchfield Road East, Northampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £49,500 | £109,913 |
| 2000s | 10 | £106,250 | £193,556 |
| 2010s | 9 | £134,500 | £189,645 |
| 2020s | 6 | £225,000 | £229,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Birchfield Road East, Northampton is £311,000 in 2025; the lowest is £43,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £311,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £93,277, so the real change over the whole record is +240.7% — about +4.32% 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: +131.2% in cash against +64.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 257 | 12 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| 291 | 30 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 416 | 29 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 173 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 347 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £288,130 |
| 215 | 24 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £297,000 | £303,457 |
| 427 | 5 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 342 | 13 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 328 | 22 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £266,000 | £279,896 |
| 357 | 20 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 389 | 29 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 295 | 5 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £193,000 | £203,082 |
| 311 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 193 | 8 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 285 | 27 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £226,000 | £237,806 |
| 248 | 1 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 307 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 309 | 27 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £204,000 | £220,414 |
| 284 | 4 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £207,000 | £223,655 |
| 224 | 28 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| 243 | 21 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| 323 | 9 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 285 | 21 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £92,000 | £99,402 |
| 341 | 20 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 310 | 4 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £303,000 | £351,052 |
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 Birchfield Road East, Northampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 257 Birchfield Road East | £60,000 (2002) | £228,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 291 Birchfield Road East | £65,000 (2001) | £200,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 347 Birchfield Road East | £130,750 (2005) | £282,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 173 Birchfield Road East | £118,500 (2001) | £375,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 215 Birchfield Road East | £220,000 (2018) | £297,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +0.5% |
| 328 Birchfield Road East | £87,500 (2000) | £266,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 357 Birchfield Road East | £142,000 (2005) | £240,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 389 Birchfield Road East | £100,000 (2010) | £240,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.3% |
| 311 Birchfield Road East | £117,000 (2002) | £315,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 285 Birchfield Road East | £92,000 (2023) | £226,000 (2024) | +145.7% | +139.2% |
| 307 Birchfield Road East | £27,500 (1998) | £250,000 (2023) | +9.2% | +6.4% |
| 243 Birchfield Road East | £90,250 (2004) | £220,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Birchfield Road East, Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 152 | 54.1% | £122,000 | £10,000 – £445,000 |
| Semi-detached | 114 | 40.6% | £142,000 | £27,500 – £340,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 3.6% | £160,000 | £60,000 – £279,995 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 1.8% | £65,000 | £59,995 – £105,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Birchfield Road East, Northampton
8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 273 freehold — 2.8% 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 £69,250 and the median freehold sale £132,500 — a gap of +91.3%. 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 | 8 | 2.8% | £69,250 |
| Freehold | 273 | 97.2% | £132,500 |
| New build | 4 | 1.4% | £62,498 |
| Existing home | 277 | 98.6% | £130,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -52.2%. 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 13 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 Birchfield Road East, Northampton
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,840 | 1.1% |
| B | 28,472 | 16.8% |
| C | 57,534 | 33.9% |
| D | 56,985 | 33.5% |
| E | 19,365 | 11.4% |
| F | 4,500 | 2.6% |
| G | 1,170 | 0.7% |
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 £130,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.09% 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 NN3, 316 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 105 violent, 4 burglary, 32 vehicle-related and 69 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 359,525 residents the 2021 census counted in North Northamptonshire, that is 0.88 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 Birchfield Road East, Northampton
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.
29 state and independent schools have a NN3 postcode: 20 primary, 6 secondary, 2 16 plus, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,712 |
| Northampton School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,670 |
| Moulton School and Science College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,450 |
| Weston Favell Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,431 |
| St Thomas Becket Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 912 |
| Bridgewater Primary School | Primary | Community school | 650 |
| Northampton School | Secondary | Free schools | 650 |
| Boothville Primary School | Primary | Community school | 601 |
| Moulton Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 597 |
| Ecton Brook Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 567 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Northampton Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Wellingborough Rail Station | Rail | 12.1 km |
| Kettering Rail Station | Rail | 16.2 km |
| Long Buckby Rail Station | Rail | 17.0 km |
Section 09
How Birchfield Road East, Northampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Birchfield Road East, Northampton sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Northampton the street ranks 2201 of 3280 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £146,001 (-11.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,548 per square metre, across 69 of the 281 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 £10,000 to £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.
Birchfield Road East, Northampton 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Swinford Hollow£75,000 median
- Overstone Road£140,000 median
- Beech Avenue£124,000 median
- The Headlands£157,500 median
- Church Way£267,500 median
- Bush Hill£149,998 median
- Hamsterly Park£84,000 median
- Manorfield Close£83,995 median
- Fullingdale Road£117,500 median
- Park Avenue North£225,500 median
- Spinney Hill Road£138,000 median
- Beaumont Drive£101,500 median
- Dore Close£74,000 median
- Longford Avenue£89,000 median
- Ecton Park Road£118,498 median
- Coppice Drive£155,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 164 and 164A Birchfield Road East6 sales
- 257 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 204 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 209 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 205 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 287 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 267 Birchfield Road East5 sales
- 357 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 311 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 307 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 243 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 310 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 383 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 230 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 246 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 201 Birchfield Road East4 sales
- 291 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 347 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 173 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 328 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 389 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 341 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 318 Birchfield Road East3 sales
- 273 Birchfield Road East3 sales
Back to Northampton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Birchfield Road East, Northampton?
The median price paid in Birchfield Road East, Northampton across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 Birchfield Road East, Northampton?
281 sales are on record for Birchfield Road East, Northampton, the most recent completing on 12 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Birchfield Road East, Northampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +131.2% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +64.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Birchfield Road East, Northampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £311,000, 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 Birchfield Road East, Northampton?
£1,548 per square metre, from the 69 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 Mar 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, “Birchfield Road East, Northampton 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.