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Emerson Valley market report MK4 2, Milton Keynes
The MK4 2 (Emerson Valley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,981 sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK4 2 (Milton Keynes) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in MK4 2 (Milton Keynes) sold for £338,500 in 2026, the median of 22 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £347,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,360 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,981 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
MK4 2 is one sector of MK4 (Milton Keynes): 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 MK4 2 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.
MK4 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 22 registered 2026 sales in MK4 2 and the middle price, the median, is £338,500. The mean lands at £347,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
MK4 2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in MK4 2 costs about £4,360 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts MK4 2 19% above the country at large.
A typical MK4 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £338,500 | £338,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 53 |
| 2024 | £328,500 | £349,263 | 48 |
| 2023 | £343,000 | £376,873 | 59 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 57 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 84 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 47 |
| 2019 | £302,000 | £395,850 | 63 |
| 2018 | £252,000 | £335,921 | 58 |
| 2017 | £259,000 | £353,250 | 80 |
| 2016 | £251,500 | £351,851 | 78 |
| 2015 | £244,500 | £345,479 | 96 |
| 2014 | £209,500 | £297,212 | 78 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 68 |
| 2012 | £208,800 | £307,328 | 64 |
| 2011 | £164,000 | £247,577 | 65 |
| 2010 | £167,500 | £262,683 | 62 |
| 2009 | £155,500 | £249,968 | 69 |
| 2008 | £176,000 | £288,501 | 89 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 157 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 184 |
| 2005 | £149,000 | £265,160 | 148 |
| 2004 | £156,500 | £284,235 | 194 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 233 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 272 |
| 2001 | £102,400 | £196,859 | 242 |
| 2000 | £89,000 | £174,663 | 273 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 275 |
| 1998 | £70,500 | £142,309 | 233 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 212 |
| 1996 | £60,800 | £128,224 | 160 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical MK4 2 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £338,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 176%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK4 2 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 2012 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK4 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.6% | +0.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 22 MK4 2 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 213 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the MK4 2 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK4 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around MK4 2
The local authority for MK4 2 is Milton Keynes, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,336 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £972 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,080 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Milton Keynes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £338,500 median sold price, £1,336 a month is £16,032 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on MK4 2 (Emerson Valley)
Are property prices falling in MK4 2 (Emerson Valley)?
Is MK4 2 (Emerson Valley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK4 2 (Emerson Valley)?
Will MK4 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in MK4 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 21 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK4 district, not just MK4 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
41% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 MK4 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in MK: the cost
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in MK4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of MK4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK4 1 | £325,100 | 25 |
| MK4 3 | £456,200 | 18 |
| MK4 4 | £355,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full MK4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK4 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK4 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK4 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK4 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim MK4 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about MK4 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every MK4 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.