Main Street, Towcester house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £290,000. Across the 15 years from 2006 to 2021 the median moved +165.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +88.2%.
Median price paid
£290,000
Change in cash, 2006–2021
+165.2%
Change in real terms
+88.2%
HM Land Registry106 salesLatest sale 5 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Main Street, Towcester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Main Street, Towcester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £125,000 | £277,559 |
| 2000s | 1 | £240,000 | £437,209 |
| 2010s | 1 | £288,250 | £406,433 |
| 2020s | 1 | £636,500 | £650,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Towcester is £636,500 in 2021; the lowest is £125,000 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £125,000 to £636,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £254,697, so the real change over the whole record is +215.7% — about +5.37% 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: +165.2% in cash against +88.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Birches | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £502,500 | £502,500 |
| Christacorn House | 16 Mar 2026 | Detached | £1,300,000 | £1,300,000 |
| Home Farm House | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,175,000 |
| Home Farm House | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £730,000 | £745,870 |
| Church View | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £339,000 | £346,370 |
| The Kestrels | 24 Oct 2024 | Detached | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 2 Council Houses | 17 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £378,806 |
| Stallturn | 8 Dec 2023 | Detached | £685,000 | £740,115 |
| Willow Barn | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £535,000 | £578,046 |
| Blossom Cottage | 16 Jan 2023 | Detached | £450,000 | £486,207 |
| The Old Bakehouse | 28 Jul 2022 | Detached | £727,000 | £842,293 |
| 3 | 12 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £315,500 | £365,534 |
| Willow Barn | 29 Nov 2021 | Detached | £495,500 | £626,035 |
| Manor House | 21 Sep 2021 | Detached | £1,875,000 | £2,368,952 |
| Manor Cottage | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £850,000 | £1,073,925 |
| Home Farm Cottage | 29 Jun 2021 | Detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| The Chapel | 3 Jun 2021 | Detached | £670,000 | £846,505 |
| The Old Bakehouse | 16 Mar 2021 | Detached | £603,000 | £761,855 |
| Cedar Tree House | 1 Oct 2020 | Detached | £690,000 | £893,388 |
| Yew Tree Cottage | 28 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £395,000 | £511,433 |
| Corner Cottage | 18 Jun 2020 | Detached | £354,000 | £458,347 |
| Holly Cottage | 27 Mar 2020 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| Home Farm House | 12 Nov 2019 | Detached | £862,500 | £1,128,131 |
| 4 | 18 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £261,596 |
| 1 | 20 Dec 2018 | Semi-detached | £282,500 | £376,489 |
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 Main Street, Towcester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE BIRCHES Main Street | £125,000 (1999) | £502,500 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| HOME FARM HOUSE Main Street | £862,500 (2019) | £730,000 (2025) | -2.7% | -6.7% |
| CHURCH VIEW Main Street | £160,000 (2008) | £339,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
| THE KESTRELS Main Street | £395,000 (2010) | £625,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| STALLTURN Main Street | £588,000 (2016) | £685,000 (2023) | +2.2% | -1.5% |
| WILLOW BARN Main Street | £405,000 (2018) | £535,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +1.4% |
| BLOSSOM COTTAGE Main Street | £170,000 (2002) | £450,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| THE OLD BAKEHOUSE Main Street | £603,000 (2021) | £727,000 (2022) | +20.6% | +10.6% |
| 3 Main Street | £47,000 (1996) | £315,500 (2022) | +7.6% | +5.0% |
| MANOR COTTAGE Main Street | £215,000 (1998) | £850,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| HOME FARM COTTAGE Main Street | £145,000 (1998) | £415,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| THE CHAPEL Main Street | £173,000 (1997) | £670,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Towcester 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 | 66 | 62.3% | £366,500 | £84,000 – £1,875,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 21.7% | £195,000 | £47,000 – £600,000 |
| Terraced | 17 | 16.0% | £240,000 | £73,000 – £440,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Main Street, Towcester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 106 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 | 106 | 100.0% | £290,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.9% | £208,500 |
| Existing home | 104 | 98.1% | £295,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -29.4%. 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 1 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 Main Street, Towcester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £290,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.11% 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 NN12, 47 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 18 violent, 0 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 11 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.6 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.08 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 Main Street, Towcester
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a NN12 postcode: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sponne School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,410 |
| Silverstone UTC | Secondary | University technical college | 463 |
| Nicholas Hawksmoor Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Towcester Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 267 |
| Marie Weller Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 245 |
| Silverstone Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 224 |
| John Hellins Primary School | Primary | Community school | 202 |
| Pattishall Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 155 |
| Greens Norton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 129 |
| Blakesley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 104 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Northampton Rail Station | Rail | 13.9 km |
| Wolverton Rail Station | Rail | 14.9 km |
| Milton Keynes Central Rail Station | Rail | 18.4 km |
| Long Buckby Rail Station | Rail | 19.7 km |
Section 09
How Main Street, Towcester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Towcester sits above that national figure — +84.1%.
Within Towcester the street ranks 159 of 418 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £229,950 (+26.1%).
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 £47,000 to £1,875,000. 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.
Main Street, Towcester sits in Buckinghamshire, in the East Midlands.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 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
- High Street£250,000 median
- Alchester Court£170,750 median
- Brackley Road£234,500 median
- Belle Baulk£201,250 median
- Tyrrell Way£143,000 median
- Redcar Road£349,750 median
- Campbell Close£150,000 median
- Hexham Street£324,975 median
- Mays Way£173,000 median
- Docklewell Close£138,000 median
- Highfields£165,000 median
- Clare Crescent£182,000 median
- Northampton Road£320,000 median
- Hesketh Road£197,000 median
- Plessey Close£137,500 median
- Simons Walk£133,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- YEW TREE COTTAGE Main Street6 sales
- CORNER COTTAGE Main Street5 sales
- 4 Main Street5 sales
- THE BIRCHES Main Street4 sales
- CHURCH VIEW Main Street4 sales
- 3 Main Street4 sales
- HOME FARM HOUSE Main Street3 sales
- THE KESTRELS Main Street3 sales
- WILLOW BARN Main Street3 sales
- BLOSSOM COTTAGE Main Street3 sales
- 2 Main Street3 sales
- FIELD VIEW BARN Main Street3 sales
- ROZEL Main Street3 sales
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE Main Street3 sales
- HILLVIEW Main Street3 sales
- MIDDLE COTTAGE Main Street3 sales
- BRICK COTTAGE Main Street3 sales
- ORCHARD COTTAGE Main Street3 sales
- STALLTURN Main Street2 sales
- THE OLD BAKEHOUSE Main Street2 sales
- HOME FARM COTTAGE Main Street2 sales
- MANOR COTTAGE Main Street2 sales
- THE CHAPEL Main Street2 sales
- CEDAR TREE HOUSE Main Street2 sales
Back to Towcester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Main Street, Towcester?
The median price paid in Main Street, Towcester across every sale on the register is £290,000. 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 Main Street, Towcester?
106 sales are on record for Main Street, Towcester, 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 Main Street, Towcester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +165.2% between 2006 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +88.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Main Street, Towcester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £636,500, 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 Main Street, Towcester?
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, “Main Street, Towcester 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.