Guaranteed rent in Northampton
Guaranteed rent in Northampton works simply: VividSpaces takes a three to five year company let on your home and pays the same rent on the same date each month, whether or not anyone is living there.
No fees, no void months · NN1, NN2, NN3, NN4, NN5, NN6, NN7 covered · Three to five year agreements
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Guaranteed rent for landlords in Northampton
Northampton is the county town of Northamptonshire, with a market square at its centre, the University of Northampton's Waterside Campus beside the River Nene, and the estates built after the town was designated a New Town in 1968 spreading east and south.
VividSpaces leases Northampton homes for three to five years in our company's name and pays one fixed rent on the same date every month. The figure is agreed in writing before you sign, at or above market rent, and it does not depend on whether the home is occupied. We manage the family, the repairs and the inspections.
What Northampton landlords get
- One fixed rent across NN1 to NN7, paid on the agreed date
- Victorian terraces and estate houses both considered
- We check your street against the additional licensing map
- Inspections, repairs and occupant contact run through our office
West Northamptonshire area, September 2026
What does a rental property in Northampton earn?
The Office for National Statistics puts the average private rent in the West Northamptonshire area at £1,088 a month.
| Home size | Average rent a month |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £754 |
| Two bedrooms | £958 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,171 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,686 |
Source: ONS, Housing prices in West Northamptonshire, September 2026.
These are borough averages, not an offer. The figure we pay for your Northampton home is set after we have seen it, at or above what it would fetch on the open market, and it is fixed in writing for the term of the lease.
You keep the whole amount. There is no management fee, no letting fee, and no empty month taken out of it.
Do you need a licence to let a property in Northampton?
For a home let to one family, usually not. West Northamptonshire licenses shared houses, and in Northampton its rules for those go further than the national minimum.
What applies, and to whom
- Mandatory licensing applies anywhere to a home rented to five or more people from more than one household who share a kitchen, bathroom or toilet.
- An additional licensing scheme started on 24 February 2025 and runs for five years. Inside its area, a house or flat with three or more people forming two or more households and sharing facilities needs a licence, as do some converted blocks of flats known as section 257 HMOs.
- The additional area takes in the area of the 2020 to 2025 scheme plus further parts of Northampton and Daventry. West Northamptonshire publishes a map; check it, or ask West Northamptonshire's licensing team, for your street.
- A home let to one family is not an HMO, and that is how we let, with VividSpaces named on the lease. We confirm the position for your address before you sign.
Source: West Northamptonshire, property licensing. Schemes change, so confirm the current position with West Northamptonshire before you let.
What a year of rent looks like for a Northampton landlord
Take a home that would let for £1,900* a month on the open market. Let the usual way, a normal year brings a management fee every month, a tenancy that ends, two empty months, a re-let fee, a repair bill and a late payment. Under a VividSpaces lease the same home pays £1,900* on the same date, twelve times.
| Let the usual wayfees, two empty months, a re-let fee, a repair, one late payment | £16,210 |
|---|---|
| Under a VividSpaces leasetwelve identical payments, on the agreed date | £22,800 |
| Difference over the year | £6,590 |
Since we started, 100% of rents have been paid on time. You can check who you are dealing with before you speak to us: VividSpaces Ltd is on the ICO register (ZB892725), a member of the Property Redress Scheme (PRS051867) and registered at Companies House (16100586).
* Illustration only, not a quote and not an offer. Assumes open-market rent £1,900/month, 10% management fee, two void months, £550 re-let fee, £340 repair bill, one late payment. The rent for your Northampton property is agreed in writing after we have seen it, before you sign anything.
If the property is empty, how are you still paying me?
Because the rent does not depend on who is living there. VividSpaces is the tenant on your lease, which is a company let, so the obligation to pay you is ours for the whole term, whether the home is occupied or between families.
Local authorities
Refer families who need a settled, long-term home and vet them before referral.
VividSpaces
Holds a three to five year lease with our company named on it, and places the family.
You
Paid a fixed rent on the same date every month for the whole term, agreed in writing before you sign.
The Northampton rental market
Demand comes from the distribution and logistics sites near the M1 junctions, the university, Northampton General Hospital and the town centre. Housing runs from the Victorian terraces close to the centre to the New Town estates of the east and the newer developments to the south-west. The steadiest lets are family houses with gardens, which is where we concentrate.
Homes we take on here
Victorian terraces in Abington, Semilong and St James, inter-war semis in Kingsthorpe and Duston, New Town estate houses in Weston Favell, and newer homes at Upton and Wootton. Two and three bedroom houses are the core of the family rental market here.
Northampton station has London Northwestern Railway trains to London Euston in around an hour, and to Birmingham New Street. The M1 skirts the town to the south and west, with junctions 15, 15A and 16 all serving it.
Neighbourhoods we cover: Northampton town centre, Abington, Kingsthorpe, Far Cotton, Duston, Weston Favell, St James, Upton.
Postcodes we cover
- NN1
- Northampton town centre, Abington
- NN2
- Kingsthorpe, Semilong
- NN3
- Weston Favell, Moulton
- NN4
- Far Cotton, Wootton, Hardingstone
- NN5
- Duston, St James, Upton
- NN6, NN7
- Surrounding villages
Areas near Northampton we also cover
Each has its own page, on the same terms and the same fixed monthly figure.
From first call to first payment
Four steps. Not sure whether your Northampton property qualifies? Ask us, it takes a minute.
Day one
We view the Northampton property
We look at the home, confirm what it would let for, and put in writing what we will pay and for how long. No charge and no obligation.
On signing
VividSpaces goes on the lease
A company let of three to five years with our name on it. From the date in the agreement the rent obligation is ours, occupied or not.
Before move-in
We prepare the home and place a family
Any light works first, then a family referred and vetted by local authorities and checked again by us.
Every month
The same figure on the same date
Repairs, inspections, cleaning and every phone call run through our office for the whole term.
Northampton landlord questions
If yours is not here, ask us directly. We would rather answer it before you sign than after.
The whole town across NN1 to NN7, from Abington and Kingsthorpe to Duston, Far Cotton, Weston Favell and Upton. Daventry, Towcester and Brackley have their own pages.
We set the rent after a viewing, at or above the open-market figure, and write it into the lease. The ONS put the West Northamptonshire average at £1,088 a month in September 2026, with three bedroom homes at £1,171.
Only if the home is shared by three or more people from two or more households inside the scheme's area. A home let to one family is not covered. We check your street against the published scheme map before you sign.
Because the families we house are referred by local authorities beyond London as well, and Northampton's family houses suit them. The lease, the rent and the management are exactly as they are in London.
Three to five years, with a 36 month minimum, as a company let to VividSpaces. The rent is ours to pay for the whole term, occupied or not.
A small family needing a settled home, referred and vetted by a local authority and checked again by us. Conditions you set are kept.
Request a rental proposal for your Northampton property
Tell us the address. We look at the property and come back with a fixed monthly figure and the term we can offer on it, in writing, at no cost.
Before you call
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