School Lane, Northampton house prices are built from 184 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £312,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved -9.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -33.5%.
Median price paid
£312,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
-9.3%
Change in real terms
-33.5%
HM Land Registry184 salesLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How School Lane, Northampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Lane, Northampton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | 2 | £107,794 | £239,352 |
| 2000s | 6 | £200,000 | £364,341 |
| 2010s | 10 | £412,500 | £581,625 |
| 2020s | 4 | £375,000 | £383,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Lane, Northampton is £532,500 in 2023; the lowest is £107,794 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £107,794 to £340,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £233,829, so the real change over the whole record is +53.0% — about +1.53% 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: -9.3% in cash against -33.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| The Old Post Office | 13 Feb 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 2a | 19 Dec 2025 | Detached | £290,000 | £296,304 |
| The Paddocks | 16 Apr 2025 | Detached | £880,000 | £899,130 |
| 33 | 7 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 3 | 20 Sep 2024 | Detached | £420,000 | £441,940 |
| 17 | 31 Jul 2024 | Detached | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 7 | 3 Jun 2024 | Detached | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| Chestnut View | 12 Jan 2024 | Detached | £497,500 | £523,489 |
| 55 | 4 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £255,000 | £275,517 |
| 2 | 26 Oct 2023 | Detached | £470,000 | £507,816 |
| 1 | 25 Oct 2023 | Detached | £575,000 | £621,264 |
| 39 | 1 Sep 2023 | Detached | £532,500 | £575,345 |
| Dinas | 10 Feb 2023 | Detached | £630,000 | £680,690 |
| 37 | 7 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| Stanmore House | 27 Sep 2022 | Detached | £935,000 | £1,083,279 |
| Forge Cottage | 20 Sep 2022 | Detached | £440,000 | £509,778 |
| 28 | 16 Sep 2022 | Detached | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| Battle House | 6 May 2022 | Detached | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| School House | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £475,021 |
| Ash View | 10 Mar 2022 | Detached | £655,000 | £758,874 |
| 6 | 24 Feb 2022 | Detached | £555,000 | £643,016 |
| 9 | 27 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| Corner Cottage | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £565,000 | £713,844 |
| Forge Cottage | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £375,000 | £485,537 |
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, Northampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 School Lane | £90,000 (1996) | £270,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +1.1% |
| THE OLD POST OFFICE School Lane | £135,000 (1996) | £515,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 2A School Lane | £159,000 (2011) | £290,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| THE PADDOCKS School Lane | £291,000 (2004) | £880,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
| 33 School Lane | £126,950 (2002) | £340,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 3 School Lane | £115,000 (2001) | £420,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 17 School Lane | £175,000 (2003) | £315,000 (2024) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| 7 School Lane | £425,000 (2009) | £230,000 (2024) | -4.0% | -6.8% |
| 55 School Lane | £90,000 (2001) | £255,000 (2023) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 2 School Lane | £109,000 (1996) | £470,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 1 School Lane | £89,000 (1997) | £575,000 (2023) | +7.4% | +4.7% |
| 39 School Lane | £390,000 (2013) | £532,500 (2023) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School Lane, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 134 | 72.8% | £380,000 | £90,000 – £935,000 |
| Semi-detached | 29 | 15.8% | £166,000 | £43,000 – £410,000 |
| Terraced | 21 | 11.4% | £195,000 | £78,500 – £380,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Lane, Northampton
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 184 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 | 184 | 100.0% | £312,500 |
| New build | 24 | 13.0% | £365,000 |
| Existing home | 160 | 87.0% | £300,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +21.5%. 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 6 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, 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 £312,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.15% 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 School Lane, 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 School Lane, Northampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Lane, Northampton sits above that national figure — +98.4%.
Within Northampton the street ranks 449 of 3280 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £146,001 (+114.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £43,000 to £935,000. 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, 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
- Forest Road£154,750 median
- Bedford Road£153,000 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
- 34 School Lane8 sales
- 4 School Lane6 sales
- 55 School Lane6 sales
- 2 School Lane6 sales
- FORGE COTTAGE School Lane6 sales
- THE OLD POST OFFICE School Lane5 sales
- 33 School Lane5 sales
- 1 School Lane5 sales
- 5 School Lane5 sales
- 3 School Lane4 sales
- 17 School Lane4 sales
- 6 School Lane4 sales
- LIBRARY COTTAGE, 33 School Lane4 sales
- 39 School Lane3 sales
- CORNER COTTAGE School Lane3 sales
- 47 School Lane3 sales
- 32 School Lane3 sales
- WINSMOOR School Lane3 sales
- EVERGREEN School Lane3 sales
- 23 School Lane3 sales
- 46 School Lane3 sales
- POST COTTAGE School Lane3 sales
- STABLES COTTAGE School Lane3 sales
- ANVIL COTTAGE School Lane3 sales
Back to Northampton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Lane, Northampton?
The median price paid in School Lane, Northampton across every sale on the register is £312,500. 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, Northampton?
184 sales are on record for School Lane, Northampton, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Lane, Northampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -9.3% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -33.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Lane, Northampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £532,500, set in 2023. 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, Northampton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 5 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, “School Lane, 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.