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Brickhill market report MK41, Bedford
The standing MK41 (Brickhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 22,049 sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK41 (Bedford) 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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 195 registered 2026 sales put the MK41 (Bedford) median at £340,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £376,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,780 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 22,049 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district MK41 covering Brickhill, Clapham, De Parys sits in Bedford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where MK41 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.
What buyers actually paid in MK41
The 2026 median for MK41 is £340,000, taken from 195 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £376,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in MK41
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in MK41 costs about £3,780 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving MK41 19% above the national figure.
A typical MK41 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 195 |
| 2025 | £336,800 | £344,854 | 494 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 521 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 425 |
| 2022 | £332,500 | £389,894 | 539 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 723 |
| 2020 | £289,200 | £375,243 | 506 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 539 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 574 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 627 |
| 2016 | £248,000 | £346,954 | 641 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 729 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 722 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 627 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 579 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 561 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 550 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 572 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 522 |
| 2007 | £191,500 | £324,837 | 890 |
| 2006 | £172,700 | £299,785 | 874 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 696 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 891 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 866 |
| 2002 | £124,000 | £233,305 | 1,063 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 915 |
| 2000 | £84,200 | £165,243 | 862 |
| 1999 | £71,800 | £143,094 | 992 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 855 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 981 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 803 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 715 |
In cash terms the typical MK41 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 195%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the MK41 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 2002 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £490,000 against £172,500 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, MK41
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £490,000 | 54 | 6,421 |
| Semi-detached | £338,000 | 79 | 8,094 |
| Terraced | £292,500 | 52 | 6,327 |
| Flats | £172,500 | 10 | 1,207 |
How many homes change hands in MK41
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 398 sales completed in MK41. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 882 sales a year before the financial crisis and 435 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.
What homes rent for around MK41
For renting purposes MK41 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Bedford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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 MK41 (Brickhill)
Are property prices falling in MK41 (Brickhill)?
Is MK41 (Brickhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK41 (Brickhill)?
What happens to MK41 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 MK41 now
Everything above is what homes in MK41 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 55 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% below the MK41 median sold price.
45% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every MK41 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in MK
What homes of each size actually sold for across the MK area, from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
MK41 ranks 7 of 26 in the MK area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside MK41, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK41 0 | £330,000 | 45 |
| MK41 6 | £285,000 | 21 |
| MK41 7 | £347,500 | 60 |
| MK41 8 | £360,000 | 34 |
| MK41 9 | £360,000 | 35 |
How MK41 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the MK area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 | £425,000 | -1% |
| MK17 | £420,000 | +6% |
| MK1 | £405,000 | +17% |
| MK46 | £405,000 | +1% |
| MK5 | £400,000 | +7% |
| MK45 | £397,500 | +6% |
| MK43 | £389,500 | +11% |
| MK19 | £387,500 | +5% |
| MK18 | £370,000 | +1% |
| MK10 | £357,500 | +2% |
| MK3 | £349,000 | +18% |
| MK4 | £347,500 | +2% |
| MK8 | £345,000 | -5% |
| MK41 (this report) | £340,000 | +11% |
| MK16 | £339,000 | +3% |
| MK40 | £327,500 | +11% |
| MK11 | £325,000 | -4% |
| MK14 | £325,000 | +10% |
| MK15 | £325,000 | +1% |
| MK42 | £319,500 | +18% |
| MK7 | £310,000 | +5% |
| MK12 | £295,000 | +10% |
| MK13 | £291,000 | +13% |
| MK2 | £290,000 | +12% |
Selling a home in MK41? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK41, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK41 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK41 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual MK41 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.