Sold Price History


Countess Road, Northampton house prices

Countess Road, Northampton house prices are built from 266 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 10 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £87,000. Across the 13 years from 2012 to 2025 the median moved +104.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +40.1%.

Median price paid

£87,000

Change in cash, 2012–2025

+104.8%

Change in real terms

+40.1%

Median per m²

£2,411

HM Land Registry266 sales117 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Apr 2026

Section 01

How Countess Road, Northampton prices moved

The chart tracks the median Countess Road, 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.

Countess Road, Northampton house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s4£32,250£71,610
2000s8£73,995£134,797
2010s3£136,137£191,952
2020s3£153,000£156,326
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Countess Road, Northampton is £169,998 in 2025; the lowest is £27,475 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £27,475 to £169,998.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £59,600, so the real change over the whole record is +191.4% — about +3.76% 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: +104.8% in cash against +40.1% 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.

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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
Flat 7 the Barker Building10 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£130,000£130,000
Flat 3 Countess Court31 Mar 2026Flat or maisonette£80,000£80,000
Flat 6 Brook House26 Feb 2026Flat or maisonette£180,000£180,000
4015 Dec 2025Terraced£180,000£183,913
Flat 10 the Barker Building30 Oct 2025Flat or maisonette£169,995£173,691
Flat 35 the Barker Building4 Aug 2025Flat or maisonette£170,000£173,696
1211 Jul 2025Terraced£225,000£229,891
Flat 28 the Barker Building21 May 2025Flat or maisonette£155,000£158,370
Flat 19 the Barker Building21 Mar 2025Flat or maisonette£155,000£158,370
Flat 22 the Barker Building26 Nov 2024Flat or maisonette£155,000£163,097
Flat 43 the Barker Building28 May 2024Flat or maisonette£151,000£158,888
Flat 14 the Barker Building27 Mar 2024Flat or maisonette£131,000£137,843
Flat 50 the Barker Building1 Mar 2024Flat or maisonette£195,000£205,187
43e30 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£120,000£129,655
47b27 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£141,000£152,345
Flat 27 the Barker Building20 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£170,000£183,678
Flat 3 Brook House31 Mar 2023Flat or maisonette£210,000£226,897
Flat 13 the Barker Building8 Feb 2023Flat or maisonette£140,000£151,264
Flat 6 Brook House13 Dec 2022Flat or maisonette£175,000£202,753
Flat 12 Brook House18 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£175,000£202,753
Flat 5 Brook House18 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£170,000£196,960
Flat 9 Brook House28 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£170,000£196,960
Flat 48 the Barker Building21 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£150,000£173,788
Flat 7 the Barker Building14 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£135,000£156,409
Flat 11 Brook House3 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£170,000£196,960
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Countess Road, Northampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 7 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£135,000 (2022)£130,000 (2026)-0.9%-4.5%
FLAT 3 COUNTESS COURT Countess Road£43,500 (2000)£80,000 (2026)+2.4%-0.3%
FLAT 6 BROOK HOUSE Countess Road£175,000 (2022)£180,000 (2026)+0.7%-2.9%
40 Countess Road£49,000 (1999)£180,000 (2025)+5.1%+2.4%
FLAT 10 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£160,000 (2022)£169,995 (2025)+2.0%-2.1%
FLAT 35 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£169,000 (2022)£170,000 (2025)+0.2%-3.9%
12 Countess Road£32,500 (1995)£225,000 (2025)+6.7%+3.9%
FLAT 28 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£160,000 (2022)£155,000 (2025)-1.1%-5.1%
FLAT 19 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£150,000 (2022)£155,000 (2025)+1.1%-3.0%
FLAT 22 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£155,000 (2022)£155,000 (2024)0.0%-4.7%
FLAT 43 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£160,000 (2022)£151,000 (2024)-2.9%-7.4%
FLAT 14 the BARKER BUILDING Countess Road£140,000 (2022)£131,000 (2024)-3.3%-7.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette13249.6%£93,500£21,500 – £210,000
Terraced9736.5%£84,000£20,000 – £225,000
Semi-detached2910.9%£92,000£17,850 – £176,000
Detached83.0%£44,500£33,000 – £52,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Countess Road, Northampton

138 of the sales on record are leasehold and 128 freehold — 51.9% 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 £91,625 and the median freehold sale £84,000 — a gap of -8.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold13851.9%£91,625
Freehold12848.1%£84,000
New build4717.7%£155,000
Existing home21982.3%£74,995
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +106.7%. 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 44 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 Countess Road, Northampton

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 bandCertificatesShare
A1,5030.8%
B31,90916.0%
C65,75432.9%
D69,16534.6%
E23,95912.0%
F6,2123.1%
G1,5270.8%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in West Northamptonshire.

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 £87,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.83% 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 NN5, 304 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 75 violent, 10 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 98 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.

Against the 425,725 residents the 2021 census counted in West Northamptonshire, that is 0.71 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 Countess Road, Northampton

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.

13 state and independent schools have a NN5 postcode: 11 primary, 1 nursery, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
The Duston SchoolAll-throughAcademy converter2,064
St James Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter445
Hopping Hill Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school423
Duston Eldean Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school418
St Luke's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter391
Upton Meadows Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter387
Earl Spencer Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school352
Kings Heath Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led350
Millway Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school343
Lyncrest Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school228
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Northampton Rail StationRail2.3 km
Long Buckby Rail StationRail11.5 km
Wellingborough Rail StationRail18.8 km
Kettering Rail StationRail21.5 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Countess Road, Northampton compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Countess Road, Northampton sits below that national figure — -44.8%.

Within Northampton the street ranks 2983 of 3280 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £146,001 (-40.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,411 per square metre, across 117 of the 266 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 £17,850 to £225,000. 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.

Countess Road, Northampton 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

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Northampton house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Countess Road, Northampton?

The median price paid in Countess Road, Northampton across every sale on the register is £87,000. 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 Countess Road, Northampton?

266 sales are on record for Countess Road, Northampton, the most recent completing on 10 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Countess Road, Northampton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +104.8% between 2012 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +40.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Countess Road, Northampton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £169,998, 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 Countess Road, Northampton?

£2,411 per square metre, from the 117 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 10 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, “Countess Road, 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.