School Lane, Rushden house prices are built from 144 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £173,375. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +63.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +18.9%.
Median price paid
£173,375
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+63.9%
Change in real terms
+18.9%
Median per m²
£2,158
HM Land Registry144 sales2 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How School Lane, Rushden prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Lane, Rushden house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2022. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | £149,950 | £273,165 |
| 2010s | 6 | £187,000 | £263,670 |
| 2020s | 2 | £222,500 | £227,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Lane, Rushden is £250,000 in 2022; the lowest is £143,000 in 2003. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £143,000 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £270,282, so the real change over the whole record is +7.2% — about +0.36% 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: +63.9% in cash against +18.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 19 | 5 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 60 | 4 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £262,500 | £268,207 |
| 62 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| 37 | 7 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £271,250 | £285,420 |
| 5 | 18 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £257,000 | £277,678 |
| 6 | 1 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £263,000 | £284,161 |
| 37 | 21 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 57 | 22 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £249,950 | £289,589 |
| 21 | 16 May 2022 | Terraced | £238,000 | £275,744 |
| 79 | 10 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 35 | 17 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 73 | 22 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 89 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £217,000 | £274,167 |
| 51 | 12 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 44 | 12 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 63 | 22 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £217,500 | £274,798 |
| 75 | 21 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 47 | 18 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 85 | 10 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £256,500 | £332,107 |
| 8 | 17 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 66 | 19 Dec 2019 | Detached | £380,000 | £497,032 |
| 64 | 15 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £302,500 | £395,663 |
| 87 | 28 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £190,000 | £248,516 |
| 23 | 13 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £226,000 | £295,603 |
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, Rushden values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 School Lane | £140,000 (2003) | £255,000 (2026) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 19 School Lane | £180,000 (2006) | £275,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.7% |
| 60 School Lane | £169,950 (2005) | £262,500 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 62 School Lane | £165,000 (2006) | £245,000 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 37 School Lane | £143,500 (2003) | £271,250 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.2% |
| 5 School Lane | £184,500 (2005) | £257,000 (2023) | +1.9% | -1.1% |
| 6 School Lane | £161,870 (2005) | £263,000 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 57 School Lane | £161,490 (2004) | £249,950 (2022) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| 21 School Lane | £115,000 (2003) | £238,000 (2022) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 79 School Lane | £161,950 (2005) | £250,000 (2022) | +2.6% | -0.1% |
| 35 School Lane | £114,000 (2003) | £250,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.6% |
| 73 School Lane | £165,000 (2005) | £225,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School Lane, Rushden 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 | 92 | 63.9% | £169,950 | £114,000 – £302,500 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 19.4% | £187,000 | £144,000 – £325,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 14.6% | £187,500 | £142,000 – £380,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 2.1% | £123,495 | £120,000 – £143,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Lane, Rushden
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 141 freehold — 2.1% 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 £123,495 and the median freehold sale £174,950 — a gap of +41.7%. 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 | 3 | 2.1% | £123,495 |
| Freehold | 141 | 97.9% | £174,950 |
| New build | 64 | 44.4% | £169,850 |
| Existing home | 80 | 55.6% | £189,998 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.6%. 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 8 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, Rushden
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bedford, 53.4% of 89,810 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 533 | 0.6% |
| B | 15,837 | 17.6% |
| C | 31,561 | 35.1% |
| D | 27,652 | 30.8% |
| E | 10,931 | 12.2% |
| F | 2,620 | 2.9% |
| G | 676 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bedford at £1,169 a month as of Jun 2026 — £797 for a one-bedroom home and £1,255 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £173,375 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.09% 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 NN10, 287 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 86 violent, 6 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 77 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times busier.
Against the 185,225 residents the 2021 census counted in Bedford, that is 1.55 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, Rushden
The 2021 census counted 185,225 residents in Bedford across 74,949 households. 64.6% of those households own their home and 35.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a NN10 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rushden Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 961 |
| The Ferrers School | Secondary | Academy converter | 937 |
| Denfield Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 444 |
| Whitefriars Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 397 |
| Rushden Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 388 |
| Henry Chichele Primary School | Primary | Community school | 341 |
| South End Junior School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| Higham Ferrers Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 322 |
| Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 255 |
| Newton Road School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 196 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Wellingborough Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Kettering Rail Station | Rail | 14.4 km |
| Bedford Rail Station | Rail | 19.2 km |
| Bedford St Johns Rail Station | Rail | 20.2 km |
Section 09
How School Lane, Rushden compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Lane, Rushden sits above that national figure — +10.1%.
Within Rushden the street ranks 138 of 484 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £132,000 (+31.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,158 per square metre, across 2 of the 144 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 £114,000 to £380,000. 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, Rushden sits in Bedford, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bedford at 9.1 times median local earnings of £37,994 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
- Wellingborough Road£120,000 median
- Newton Road£142,500 median
- Queen Street£83,000 median
- St Margarets Avenue£128,000 median
- High Street South£109,995 median
- Glassbrook Road£94,000 median
- Rectory Road£62,000 median
- Grangeway£105,500 median
- Washbrook Road£96,500 median
- Cromwell Road£87,500 median
- Portland Road£88,500 median
- High Street£116,500 median
- Irchester Road£127,500 median
- Station Road£74,375 median
- Lime Street£145,000 median
- Hall Avenue£157,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 31 School Lane4 sales
- 37 School Lane4 sales
- 57 School Lane4 sales
- 21 School Lane4 sales
- 79 School Lane4 sales
- 35 School Lane4 sales
- 63 School Lane4 sales
- 85 School Lane4 sales
- 55 School Lane4 sales
- 19 School Lane3 sales
- 60 School Lane3 sales
- 73 School Lane3 sales
- 89 School Lane3 sales
- 51 School Lane3 sales
- 44 School Lane3 sales
- 75 School Lane3 sales
- 47 School Lane3 sales
- 8 School Lane3 sales
- 49 School Lane3 sales
- 52 School Lane3 sales
- 4 School Lane3 sales
- 81 School Lane3 sales
- 69 School Lane3 sales
- 33 School Lane3 sales
Back to Rushden house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Lane, Rushden?
The median price paid in School Lane, Rushden across every sale on the register is £173,375. 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, Rushden?
144 sales are on record for School Lane, Rushden, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Lane, Rushden house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +63.9% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +18.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Lane, Rushden house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, 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 School Lane, Rushden?
£2,158 per square metre, from the 2 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 1 May 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, Rushden 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.