Standing view · housing · West Northamptonshire
improving, held with strong confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2026-07.
Households served a no-fault eviction notice and owed a prevention duty in West Northamptonshire fell to 14 in the first quarter of 2026, when 109 households were owed a prevention duty and 268 a relief duty. Rents rose over the period: a two-bedroom home cost £943 a month in April 2026, £944 in May and £950 in July, and a terraced home £1,048 in March and £1,054 in June. Fewer eviction notices alongside rising rents is a divergence here.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about West Northamptonshire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Prevention duty, section 21 notice | 2026-Q1 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Prevention duty owed | 2026-Q1 | falling |
| Relief duty owed | 2026-Q1 | — |
| Average private rent, terraced | 2026-03 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-04 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-05 | — |
| Average private rent, terraced | 2026-06 | — |
| Average private rent, two bedrooms | 2026-07 | — |