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Brickhill market report MK41 8, Bedford

The standing MK41 8 (Brickhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,227 HM Land Registry entries for MK41 8 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the typical home in MK41 8 (Bedford) sold for £360,000 in 2026, the median of 34 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £432,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,227 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

MK41 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside MK41 (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.

What a home in MK41 8 sells for

In the MK41 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £360,000, from 34 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £432,100, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

Price per square metre in MK41 8

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in MK41 8 costs about £3,870 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.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, MK41 8 sits 26% above the national market.

In cash terms the typical MK41 8 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.3%). 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

Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in MK41 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.

The rental side of MK41 8

For renting purposes MK41 8 sits in Bedford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,168 a month (May 2026). 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.

£1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, which against the £360,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.

What kind of market MK41 8 is

Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK41 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.

Asked and answered: MK41 8 (Brickhill)

Are MK41 8 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.

On the market in MK41 today

What another bedroom costs in MK

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in MK41

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of MK41, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full MK41 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK41 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in MK41 8? Start from the sold record

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The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK41 8. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual MK41 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.