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Biddenham market report MK40 4, Bedford
The standing MK40 4 (Biddenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,086 HM Land Registry entries for MK40 4 (Bedford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in MK40 4 (Bedford) came in at £349,500, out of 78 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £384,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,086 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
MK40 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside MK40 (Bedford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where MK40 4 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.
The going rate for a home in MK40 4
Take the 78 registered 2026 sales in MK40 4 and the middle price, the median, is £349,500. The mean lands at £384,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in MK40 4
By floor space, homes in MK40 4 have sold for about £3,660 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, MK40 4 sits 23% above the national market.
MK40 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £349,500 | £349,500 | 78 |
| 2025 | £368,700 | £377,517 | 326 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 266 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 214 |
| 2022 | £335,000 | £392,826 | 298 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 334 |
| 2020 | £305,000 | £395,744 | 287 |
| 2019 | £336,000 | £440,416 | 309 |
| 2018 | £317,000 | £422,567 | 416 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 444 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 353 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 269 |
| 2014 | £248,000 | £351,831 | 287 |
| 2013 | £217,000 | £312,241 | 203 |
| 2012 | £226,000 | £332,644 | 149 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 171 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 195 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 127 |
| 2008 | £158,200 | £259,323 | 120 |
| 2007 | £164,700 | £279,377 | 222 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 344 |
| 2005 | £140,500 | £250,033 | 252 |
| 2004 | £138,000 | £250,635 | 213 |
| 2003 | £110,000 | £202,647 | 224 |
| 2002 | £96,500 | £181,564 | 277 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 252 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 229 |
| 1999 | £79,100 | £157,642 | 304 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 276 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 242 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 212 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 193 |
In cash terms the typical MK40 4 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £349,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 182%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the MK40 4 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 (+45.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−14.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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.
MK40 4 recorded 78 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 236 sales a year recently, against 252 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of MK40 4
The local authority for MK40 4 is Bedford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,168 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £796 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,800 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bedford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £349,500 median sold price, £1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
MK40 4 (Biddenham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in MK40 4 (Biddenham)?
Is MK40 4 (Biddenham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK40 4 (Biddenham)?
What happens to MK40 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% 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.
What you could buy in MK40 now
The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK40 district, not just MK40 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
44% 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 MK40 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.
What another bedroom costs in MK
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the MK area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 MK40
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are MK40's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK40 1 | £240,000 | 9 |
| MK40 2 | £190,000 | 25 |
| MK40 3 | £340,000 | 63 |
Zoom out to the full MK40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK40 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in MK40 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK40 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK40 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK40 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim MK40 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK40 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every MK40 4 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.