That is the middle of 1,193 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Daventry’s sales are semi-detached houses
1,193 homes sold in three years: 366 detached houses, 423 semi-detached houses, 291 terraced houses and 113 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£360K
median sale · 366 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£418K
Last 12 months
£363K106 sold
New build
£378K
Semi-detached houses£255K
median sale · 423 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£218K–£295K
Last 12 months
£260K115 sold
New build
£310K
Terraced houses£210K
median sale · 291 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£241K
Last 12 months
£210K98 sold
New build
£320K
Flats and maisonettes£130K
median sale · 113 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£140K
Last 12 months
£133K30 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses35%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes9%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Daventry’s homes sold for between £200K and £320K
One sale in ten was under £145K and one in ten over £392K. 46% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £260,000, sits in the £250–300K band
1,193 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,500 in 1995 to £258,000 in the last 12 months (£220,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
349 sales in the last 12 months, against 949 in 2002, the busiest year, and 293 in 2012. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 26% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Daventry costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Daventry, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£70K
£115K
£195K
£208K
£238K
£308K
£363K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£70K
£133K
£137K
£169K
£216K
£260K
Terraced houses
£35K
£57K
£114K
£110K
£136K
£179K
£210K
Flats and maisonettes
£25K
£45K
£100K
£89K
£111K
£124K
£133K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
3% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
3,471 new homes have been sold in Daventry since 1995; the share peaked at 32% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £331,219
against £245,000 for a home sold on, 35% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.3% sold leasehold in Daventry. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Timken Way is Daventry’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
83 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 26 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Timken Way
NN11
22
£229,000
Mixed
2
Farnborough Drive
NN11
20
£232,500
Mixed
3
Morning Star Road
NN11
20
£133,500
Mostly flats
4
Meadowsweet Close
NN11
16
£341,958
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Linden Way
NN11
16
£335,745
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Mallow Way
NN11
16
£330,000
Mixed · new builds
7
Fennel Close
NN11
14
£325,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
8
The Haystack
NN11
14
£289,000
Mixed
9
Hemans Road
NN11
14
£192,500
Mixed
10
The Medway
NN11
14
£190,500
Mostly terraced houses
11
Lavender Way
NN11
13
£320,625
Mixed · new builds
12
Primrose Hill
NN11
13
£138,000
Mostly flats
13
Cornflower Close
NN11
12
£485,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
14
Cartmel Road
NN11
12
£312,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Abbotsbury Drive
NN11
12
£310,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Buttercup Drive: £550,000
Daventry median£260K
Buttercup Drive£550K
Cornflower Close£485K
Forget Me Not Way£480K
Edgehill Drive£432K
Cheriton Close£390K
Cheapest streets
Newstead Way: £92,500
Daventry median£260K
Newstead Way£93K
Morning Star Road£134K
Daneholme Close£136K
Primrose Hill£138K
Hanbury Close£139K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Northamptonshire
Daventry is the 22nd most expensive of 31 towns in Northamptonshire
Daventry is in the middle of Northamptonshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Daventry
What is the average house price in Daventry?
The median home in Daventry sold for £260,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,193 standard sales (£258,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £360,000, semi-detached houses £255,000, terraced houses £210,000 and flats and maisonettes £130,000.
Are house prices going up in Daventry?
The median was £257,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£260,000), and £258,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Daventry each year?
349 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 468 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Daventry?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Buttercup Drive (NN11, £550,000), Cornflower Close (NN11, £485,000) and Forget Me Not Way (NN11, £480,000).
How much does a new build cost in Daventry?
New homes sold for a median £331,219 over three years, against £245,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 11% of sales.
Is Daventry expensive for Northamptonshire?
Daventry is the 21st most expensive of 31 towns of 2,500 or more in Northamptonshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.