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Castle market report MK42 0, Bedford
The MK42 0 (Castle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,578 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in MK42 0 (Bedford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical MK42 0 (Bedford) home changed hands for £305,500 in 2026 (median of 46 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £305,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,580 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,578 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like MK42 0 is a single group of streets within MK42 (Bedford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where MK42 0 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 MK42 0 homes really sell for
In the MK42 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £305,500, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £305,100, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in MK42 0
The last five years of sales put MK42 0 at roughly £3,580 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so MK42 0 trades 7% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical MK42 0 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,500 | £305,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 216 |
| 2024 | £332,500 | £353,516 | 225 |
| 2023 | £293,000 | £321,935 | 239 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 283 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 351 |
| 2020 | £262,200 | £340,210 | 192 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 245 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 198 |
| 2017 | £249,700 | £340,566 | 284 |
| 2016 | £222,800 | £311,699 | 306 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 278 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 243 |
| 2013 | £148,000 | £212,957 | 217 |
| 2012 | £136,800 | £201,353 | 162 |
| 2011 | £137,000 | £206,817 | 153 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 129 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 134 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 125 |
| 2007 | £148,500 | £251,897 | 268 |
| 2006 | £135,000 | £234,343 | 275 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 248 |
| 2004 | £131,500 | £238,830 | 368 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 326 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 360 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 261 |
| 2000 | £72,100 | £141,496 | 304 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 305 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 252 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 229 |
| 1996 | £44,200 | £93,216 | 206 |
| 1995 | £42,200 | £91,736 | 150 |
In cash terms the typical MK42 0 home went from £42,200 in 1995 to £305,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 233%, 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 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the MK42 0 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 2003 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.7%). 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) | −6.0% | −8.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in MK42 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 301 sales a year before the financial crisis and 202 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.
What homes rent for around MK42 0
For renting purposes MK42 0 sits in Bedford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,168 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £796 a month here against £1,800 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bedford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £305,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,168 a month (£14,016 a year) works out at a 4.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the MK42 0 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK42 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
MK42 0 (Castle): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in MK42 0 (Castle)?
Is MK42 0 (Castle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK42 0 (Castle)?
What happens to MK42 0 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What you could buy in MK42 now
Turning to what is actually available: 88 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK42 district, not just MK42 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- Willow Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42
"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 MK42 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: MK prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the MK area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in MK42
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK42, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK42 6 | £363,000 | 48 |
| MK42 7 | £310,000 | 47 |
| MK42 8 | £315,000 | 37 |
| MK42 9 | £257,500 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full MK42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK42 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in MK42 0: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK42 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK42 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK42 0 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 MK42 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim MK42 0.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK42 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual MK42 0 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.