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Astwood market report MK16 8, Newport Pagnell
The standing MK16 8 (Astwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,918 registered sales in MK16 8 (Newport Pagnell) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the MK16 8 (Newport Pagnell) median at £325,000, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £335,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,918 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
MK16 8 is one sector of MK16 (Newport Pagnell): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where MK16 8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
MK16 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 43 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) MK16 8 home went for £325,000. The mean is £335,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in MK16 8
Per square metre, MK16 8 homes have averaged around £4,140 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts MK16 8 14% above the country at large.
MK16 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £345,000 | £353,250 | 108 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 112 |
| 2023 | £332,500 | £365,336 | 84 |
| 2022 | £335,000 | £392,826 | 125 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 175 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 91 |
| 2019 | £277,000 | £363,081 | 117 |
| 2018 | £277,800 | £370,313 | 138 |
| 2017 | £272,500 | £371,663 | 123 |
| 2016 | £259,000 | £362,344 | 153 |
| 2015 | £249,000 | £351,837 | 148 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 174 |
| 2013 | £197,500 | £284,183 | 119 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 117 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 160 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 105 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 97 |
| 2008 | £192,200 | £315,056 | 84 |
| 2007 | £188,500 | £319,748 | 211 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 212 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 155 |
| 2004 | £164,000 | £297,856 | 171 |
| 2003 | £143,500 | £264,362 | 211 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 222 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 207 |
| 2000 | £88,500 | £173,681 | 254 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 266 |
| 1998 | £69,500 | £140,291 | 211 |
| 1997 | £67,900 | £139,249 | 228 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 166 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 131 |
In cash terms the typical MK16 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 199%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK16 8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2010 (+22.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK16 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in MK16 8
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 43 MK16 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 205 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the MK16 8 market
This is a thin market: 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What homes rent for around MK16 8
MK16 8 falls under Milton Keynes, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,336 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £972 a month here against £2,080 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Milton Keynes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,336 a month is £16,032 a year, which against the £325,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on MK16 8 (Astwood)
How much did a house sell for in MK16 8 (Astwood)?
Are property prices falling in MK16 8 (Astwood)?
Is MK16 8 (Astwood) a good place to buy a house?
Are MK16 8 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in MK16 today
The live side of the market holds 26 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK16 district, not just MK16 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Byron Drive, Newport Pagnell
- Marlow Drive, Newport Pagnell
- Carters Close, Sherington, Newport Pagnell
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every MK16 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: MK prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the MK area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £367,500 | £495,000 (+35%) | £675,000 (+36%) | £910,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £270,000 | £320,000 (+19%) | £375,000 (+17%) | £470,000 (+25%) | £630,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £245,000 | £285,000 (+16%) | £330,000 (+16%) | £400,000 (+21%) | £580,000 (+45%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £225,000 (+41%) | £307,500 (+37%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the MK area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in MK16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK16 0 | £300,000 | 37 |
| MK16 9 | £380,000 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full MK16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK16 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK16 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK16 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK16 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working MK16 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim MK16 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK16 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK16 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.