Northampton Property Market: House Prices, Sold Data & Development Finance, Q3 2026 Review

Northampton: County town with major town centre and waterside regeneration, university campus, and logistics employment.

The Northampton property market recorded 4,932 residential sales in the 12 months to 30 June 2026, with a median sale price of £275,000. This places Northampton £19k above the Northamptonshire county median of £256,500, and £10k below the approximate UK median of £285,000.

Prices in Northampton have been broadly stable, a year-on-year change of -1.8%. Within Northamptonshire, Northampton ranks 3rd by price out of 7 principal towns, and 1st by transaction volume.

On a quarterly view, Northampton median prices moved from £281,166 in Q1 2025 to £270,000 in Q2 2026, a change of -4.0% over 5 quarters.

West Northamptonshire, the local planning authority covering Northampton, approved 53 residential planning applications and refused 20 in Q3 2026 (1 July to 30 September 2026), with 148 still awaiting a decision. That is an approval rate of 73%. A further 3 residential decisions in the period have no recorded outcome in the source data and are not counted above. Planning figures come from local planning authority records compiled by Landstack, retrieved on 3 October 2026. Councils and Landstack can take several days to publish decisions, so decisions made in the final days of Q3 2026 may not all be included yet.

Schemes approved in Q3 2026, together with those still awaiting a decision, propose around 4,492 homes, an estimated £1.2bn of development value at local sale prices. Treat the unit total as an upper bound, since an outline permission and its reserved-matters application both count.

West Northamptonshire covers more than one town in Northamptonshire, so these figures are authority-wide rather than specific to Northampton alone.

Property prices in Northampton vary significantly by type. The table below compares Northampton prices with Northamptonshire county averages and UK national figures.

Detached homes in Northampton command £400,000, while flat properties are most accessible at £145,000. The £255k spread between the most and least expensive types indicates a diverse market with opportunities across the development spectrum.

HM Land Registry has so far registered 228 new-build sales in Northampton for the past 12 months, 4.6% of registered transactions. New-build sales are typically registered 6 to 18 months after completion, so this understates current delivery and is not a completions figure.

On those registered sales, new builds in Northampton sold at a premium of 26.2% to existing stock.

Across the wider Northamptonshire market, 609 new-build sales have registered so far. See our Northamptonshire property market report for the full county picture.

The table below shows the most recently registered residential sales in Northampton, evidence of achieved prices for buyers, sellers and developers:

These transactions are sourced from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and represent completed, registered sales. The range from £152,500 to £950,000 illustrates the breadth of the Northampton market.

For developers considering Northampton, the local market data translates directly into finance structuring. With a median value of £275,000 and detached homes at £400,000, lenders can assess scheme viability with confidence.

A typical development finance facility for a scheme in Northampton with a GDV of £400,000 would attract senior debt of approximately £260,000 at 65% LTGDV. Mezzanine finance can stretch total borrowing to 85-90% of costs, while bridging loans enable rapid site acquisitions completing in as little as 5 working days.

While prices have softened 1.8% year-on-year, experienced developers can still generate strong returns in Northampton by targeting well-located sites with clear demand drivers.

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To put Northampton's market in context, the table below compares it with similarly-priced towns across Northamptonshire:

For the full Northamptonshire town-by-town breakdown, see our comprehensive Northamptonshire property market report.