Southgate Drive, Towcester house prices are built from 78 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £95,250. Across the 8 years from 1996 to 2004 the median moved +202.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +159.0%.
Median price paid
£95,250
Change in cash, 1996–2004
+202.9%
Change in real terms
+159.0%
Median per m²
£1,778
HM Land Registry78 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Southgate Drive, Towcester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Southgate Drive, Towcester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2004. 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 | 3 | £42,750 | £94,925 |
| 2000s | 2 | £53,000 | £96,550 |
The highest yearly median on record for Southgate Drive, Towcester is £106,000 in 2004; the lowest is £35,000 in 1996. Across the full 9-year record the cash median has moved from £35,000 to £106,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £75,923, so the real change over the whole record is +159.0% — about +12.63% 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: +202.9% in cash against +159.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 29 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 36 | 20 Sep 2024 | Detached | £336,000 | £353,552 |
| 20 | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 1 | 25 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 14 | 3 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £249,950 | £315,797 |
| 3 | 27 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £192,500 | £243,212 |
| 7 | 29 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 16 | 27 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £319,147 |
| 9 | 6 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £235,436 |
| 25 | 16 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £154,500 | £205,903 |
| 24 | 29 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £293,195 |
| 18 | 2 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £230,000 | £313,031 |
| 3 | 22 May 2017 | Terraced | £172,000 | £234,093 |
| 29 | 24 Oct 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £162,000 | £226,158 |
| 23 | 22 Jun 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £138,750 | £193,700 |
| 7 | 30 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £170,000 | £237,327 |
| 6 | 5 Mar 2015 | Terraced | £155,250 | £218,903 |
| 4 | 26 Sep 2014 | Terraced | £149,000 | £213,723 |
| 6 | 24 Aug 2012 | Terraced | £137,000 | £204,629 |
| 10 | 4 May 2012 | Terraced | £124,995 | £186,698 |
| 11 | 20 Mar 2012 | Terraced | £131,000 | £195,667 |
| 16 | 5 Aug 2011 | Semi-detached | £145,500 | £222,995 |
| 4 | 20 Aug 2010 | Terraced | £122,000 | £194,813 |
| 17 | 4 Jun 2010 | Semi-detached | £107,000 | £170,861 |
| 17 | 17 Sep 2007 | Semi-detached | £104,995 | £182,544 |
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 Southgate Drive, Towcester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Southgate Drive | £39,000 (1996) | £260,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 1 Southgate Drive | £35,000 (1996) | £215,000 (2023) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 14 Southgate Drive | £45,000 (1997) | £249,950 (2021) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
| 3 Southgate Drive | £172,000 (2017) | £192,500 (2021) | +2.9% | +1.0% |
| 16 Southgate Drive | £91,000 (2003) | £244,000 (2019) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 9 Southgate Drive | £108,000 (2004) | £180,000 (2019) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 25 Southgate Drive | £37,500 (1999) | £154,500 (2018) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 24 Southgate Drive | £39,500 (1996) | £220,000 (2018) | +8.1% | +5.8% |
| 18 Southgate Drive | £172,000 (2007) | £230,000 (2017) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 23 Southgate Drive | £34,000 (1997) | £138,750 (2016) | +7.7% | +5.3% |
| 6 Southgate Drive | £53,000 (2000) | £155,250 (2015) | +7.4% | +5.0% |
| 4 Southgate Drive | £50,000 (2000) | £149,000 (2014) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Southgate Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 37 | 47.4% | £96,000 | £35,000 – £260,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 19 | 24.4% | £55,000 | £24,800 – £162,000 |
| Semi-detached | 19 | 24.4% | £107,000 | £34,000 – £300,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 3.8% | £76,500 | £59,995 – £336,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Southgate Drive, Towcester
25 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 32.1% 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 £55,000 and the median freehold sale £107,500 — a gap of +95.5%. 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 | 25 | 32.1% | £55,000 |
| Freehold | 53 | 67.9% | £107,500 |
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 Southgate Drive, 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 £95,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 18.60% 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 Southgate Drive, 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 Southgate Drive, Towcester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Southgate Drive, Towcester sits below that national figure — -39.5%.
Within Towcester the street ranks 409 of 418 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £229,950 (-58.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,778 per square metre, across 27 of the 78 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 £24,800 to £336,000. 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.
Southgate Drive, 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
- 7 Southgate Drive8 sales
- 16 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 25 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 24 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 23 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 6 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 11 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 21 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 27 Southgate Drive4 sales
- 1 Southgate Drive3 sales
- 14 Southgate Drive3 sales
- 4 Southgate Drive3 sales
- 17 Southgate Drive3 sales
- 2 Southgate Drive3 sales
- 3 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 9 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 18 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 10 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 33 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 12 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 19 Southgate Drive2 sales
- 30 Southgate Drive2 sales
Back to Towcester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Southgate Drive, Towcester?
The median price paid in Southgate Drive, Towcester across every sale on the register is £95,250. 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 Southgate Drive, Towcester?
78 sales are on record for Southgate Drive, Towcester, the most recent completing on 29 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Southgate Drive, Towcester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +202.9% between 1996 and 2004. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +159.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Southgate Drive, Towcester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £106,000, set in 2004. 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 Southgate Drive, Towcester?
£1,778 per square metre, from the 27 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 29 Aug 2025. 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, “Southgate Drive, 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.