Forest Road, Northampton house prices are built from 246 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £154,750. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +93.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +39.8%.
Median price paid
£154,750
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+93.0%
Change in real terms
+39.8%
Median per m²
£1,476
HM Land Registry246 sales20 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Forest Road, Northampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Forest Road, Northampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £59,750 | £132,673 |
| 2000s | 10 | £132,500 | £241,376 |
| 2010s | 7 | £184,995 | £260,843 |
| 2020s | 5 | £270,000 | £275,870 |
The highest yearly median on record for Forest Road, Northampton is £389,000 in 2021; the lowest is £36,000 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £330,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +176.1% — about +3.44% 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: +93.0% in cash against +39.8% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 17 Mar 2026 | Detached | £635,000 | £635,000 |
| 55 | 28 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £490,000 | £500,652 |
| Hazeldene, 3a | 11 Jul 2025 | Detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 50 | 13 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 30 | 22 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 25 | 12 Mar 2025 | Detached | £297,825 | £304,299 |
| 38 | 4 Nov 2024 | Detached | £585,000 | £615,560 |
| 48 | 31 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £505,075 |
| 35 | 28 Feb 2024 | Detached | £535,000 | £562,948 |
| 29 | 14 Dec 2023 | Detached | £242,500 | £262,011 |
| 18 | 14 Sep 2023 | Detached | £535,000 | £578,046 |
| 118 | 10 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £240,000 | £259,310 |
| 25 | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £137,500 | £148,563 |
| 24 | 9 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £263,000 | £284,161 |
| Flat 6 the Old Chapel | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £208,546 |
| 48 | 16 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| Flat 4 the Old Chapel | 2 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £207,500 | £240,407 |
| 17a | 16 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £341,783 |
| 26 | 1 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 40 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £229,447 | £265,834 |
| 30 | 16 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 25 | 16 Feb 2022 | Detached | £317,500 | £367,851 |
| 116 | 29 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| Cleveland House | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £850,000 | £1,073,925 |
| 10 | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £650,000 | £821,237 |
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 Forest Road, Northampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 Forest Road | £110,000 (1997) | £490,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| HAZELDENE, 3A Forest Road | £285,000 (2014) | £500,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.0% |
| 50 Forest Road | £151,500 (2000) | £240,000 (2025) | +1.9% | -0.8% |
| 30 Forest Road | £61,700 (1996) | £330,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 25 Forest Road | £94,000 (1999) | £297,825 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 38 Forest Road | £367,500 (2001) | £585,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.7% |
| 48 Forest Road | £13,000 (2000) | £480,000 (2024) | +16.2% | +13.2% |
| 35 Forest Road | £392,000 (2014) | £535,000 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.0% |
| 29 Forest Road | £85,000 (2009) | £242,500 (2023) | +7.8% | +4.6% |
| 18 Forest Road | £33,500 (1996) | £535,000 (2023) | +10.8% | +8.0% |
| 118 Forest Road | £47,995 (1999) | £240,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 24 Forest Road | £70,000 (1997) | £263,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Forest Road, 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 | 80 | 32.5% | £115,000 | £13,000 – £372,500 |
| Detached | 78 | 31.7% | £238,000 | £32,500 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 74 | 30.1% | £160,000 | £32,500 – £490,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 14 | 5.7% | £137,500 | £100,000 – £207,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Forest Road, Northampton
14 of the sales on record are leasehold and 232 freehold — 5.7% 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 £146,000 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +6.2%. 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 | 14 | 5.7% | £146,000 |
| Freehold | 232 | 94.3% | £155,000 |
| New build | 11 | 4.5% | £130,000 |
| Existing home | 235 | 95.5% | £160,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.8%. 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 Forest Road, Northampton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Milton Keynes, 61.7% of 143,446 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,947 | 1.4% |
| B | 30,877 | 21.5% |
| C | 55,637 | 38.8% |
| D | 43,510 | 30.3% |
| E | 9,458 | 6.6% |
| F | 1,625 | 1.1% |
| G | 392 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Milton Keynes at £1,340 a month as of Jun 2026 — £974 for a one-bedroom home and £1,447 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £154,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.39% 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 NN7, 56 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 16 violent, 1 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.0 times quieter.
Against the 287,060 residents the 2021 census counted in Milton Keynes, that is 0.20 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 Forest Road, Northampton
The 2021 census counted 287,060 residents in Milton Keynes across 113,103 households. 60.9% of those households own their home and 39.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
23 state and independent schools have a NN7 postcode: 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campion School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,309 |
| Elizabeth Woodville School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,124 |
| Roade Primary School | Primary | Community school | 315 |
| Hartwell Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| Bugbrooke Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 192 |
| Cogenhoe Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 191 |
| Harpole Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 186 |
| Hackleton CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 183 |
| Weedon Bec Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 182 |
| The Bliss Charity School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 177 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Northampton Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Long Buckby Rail Station | Rail | 14.1 km |
| Wolverton Rail Station | Rail | 18.2 km |
| Wellingborough Rail Station | Rail | 20.3 km |
Section 09
How Forest Road, Northampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Forest Road, Northampton sits below that national figure — -1.7%.
Within Northampton the street ranks 1780 of 3280 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £146,001 (+6.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,476 per square metre, across 20 of the 246 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 £13,000 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.
Forest Road, Northampton sits in Milton Keynes, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Milton Keynes at 8.4 times median local earnings of £41,516 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
- Station Road£195,000 median
- West Street£211,000 median
- Manor Road£175,000 median
- Main Street£285,000 median
- Church Lane£260,413 median
- Towcester Road£149,995 median
- Bedford Road£153,000 median
- School Lane£312,500 median
- Glebe Road£280,000 median
- Orchard Way£163,000 median
- West End£296,000 median
- New Street£193,500 median
- Mill Lane£218,000 median
- Hartwell Road£315,025 median
- Queen Street£177,875 median
- Fusilier Way£154,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 23 Forest Road11 sales
- 25 Forest Road8 sales
- 30 Forest Road7 sales
- 50 Forest Road6 sales
- 38 Forest Road6 sales
- 26 Forest Road6 sales
- 7 Forest Road6 sales
- 108 Forest Road6 sales
- 48 Forest Road5 sales
- 18 Forest Road5 sales
- 6 Forest Road5 sales
- 67 Forest Road5 sales
- 36 Forest Road5 sales
- 55 Forest Road4 sales
- 118 Forest Road4 sales
- 24 Forest Road4 sales
- 102 Forest Road4 sales
- 20 Forest Road4 sales
- 2 Forest Road4 sales
- 110 Forest Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, the OLD CHAPEL Forest Road3 sales
- 116 Forest Road3 sales
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, 3 Forest Road3 sales
- 88 Forest Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Forest Road, Northampton?
The median price paid in Forest Road, Northampton across every sale on the register is £154,750. 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 Forest Road, Northampton?
246 sales are on record for Forest Road, Northampton, the most recent completing on 17 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Forest Road, Northampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +93.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +39.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Forest Road, Northampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £389,000, 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 Forest Road, Northampton?
£1,476 per square metre, from the 20 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 17 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, “Forest 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.