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Castle market report MK42 9, Bedford
The MK42 9 (Castle) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,135 registered sales in MK42 9 (Bedford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the MK42 9 (Bedford) median at £257,500, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £255,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,135 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
MK42 9 is one sector of MK42 (Bedford): 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 MK42 9 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 MK42 9
The 2026 median for MK42 9 is £257,500, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £255,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in MK42 9
Per square metre, MK42 9 homes have averaged around £3,280 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving MK42 9 10% below the national figure.
A typical MK42 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £257,500 | £257,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £265,500 | £271,849 | 126 |
| 2024 | £259,000 | £275,370 | 106 |
| 2023 | £261,000 | £286,775 | 89 |
| 2022 | £248,800 | £291,746 | 126 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 183 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 157 |
| 2019 | £217,500 | £285,090 | 147 |
| 2018 | £206,500 | £275,268 | 166 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 201 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 237 |
| 2015 | £174,200 | £246,145 | 232 |
| 2014 | £157,000 | £222,732 | 166 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 179 |
| 2012 | £137,800 | £202,824 | 120 |
| 2011 | £134,200 | £202,590 | 132 |
| 2010 | £137,400 | £215,479 | 146 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 131 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 176 |
| 2007 | £150,000 | £254,442 | 348 |
| 2006 | £148,000 | £256,909 | 356 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 323 |
| 2004 | £131,500 | £238,830 | 414 |
| 2003 | £124,200 | £228,807 | 470 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 462 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 385 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 387 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 364 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 275 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 177 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 143 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 171 |
In cash terms the typical MK42 9 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £257,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the MK42 9 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 1998 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK42 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 40 MK42 9 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 393 sales a year before the financial crisis and 97 a year over the last five. 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 shape of the MK42 9 market
This is a thin market: 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within MK42, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around MK42 9
For renting purposes MK42 9 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.
Set against the £257,500 median sold price, £1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
Asked and answered: MK42 9 (Castle)
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Where do MK42 9 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in MK42 today
The live side of the market holds 88 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK42 district, not just MK42 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the MK area, 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the MK area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in MK42
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of MK42, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK42 0 | £305,500 | 46 |
| MK42 6 | £363,000 | 48 |
| MK42 7 | £310,000 | 47 |
| MK42 8 | £315,000 | 37 |
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 9: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at MK42 9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working MK42 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim MK42 9.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK42 9. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK42 9 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.
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.