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Bourne End market report MK43 0, Bedford
The MK43 0 (Bourne End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,089 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK43 0 (Bedford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical MK43 0 (Bedford) home changed hands for £375,000 in 2026 (median of 72 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier), with the mean at £380,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,830 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,089 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like MK43 0 is a single group of streets within MK43 (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 MK43 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 a home in MK43 0 sells for
72 sales were registered in MK43 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £375,000. The mean works out at £380,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
MK43 0 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put MK43 0 at roughly £3,830 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts MK43 0 32% above the country at large.
The price of a typical MK43 0 home, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 72 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 202 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 193 |
| 2023 | £386,500 | £424,669 | 176 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 225 |
| 2021 | £312,000 | £395,032 | 323 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 177 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 229 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 335 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 365 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 432 |
| 2015 | £268,000 | £378,684 | 401 |
| 2014 | £234,000 | £331,970 | 273 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 209 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 159 |
| 2011 | £177,000 | £267,202 | 131 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 137 |
| 2009 | £178,700 | £287,262 | 140 |
| 2008 | £183,200 | £300,303 | 124 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 293 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 281 |
| 2005 | £178,500 | £317,658 | 225 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 344 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 274 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 301 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 300 |
| 2000 | £97,800 | £191,933 | 292 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 331 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 241 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 342 |
| 1996 | £58,500 | £123,374 | 298 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 264 |
In cash terms the typical MK43 0 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 188%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the MK43 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 2002 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.3% | +7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in MK43 0
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 72 sales completed in MK43 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 289 sales a year before the financial crisis and 174 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.
Reading the MK43 0 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around MK43 0
The local authority for MK43 0 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £862 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,039 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, which against the £375,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
Asked and answered: MK43 0 (Bourne End)
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What happens to MK43 0 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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 MK43 now
The live side of the market holds 64 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK43 district, not just MK43 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 MK43 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
MK area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in MK43
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of MK43, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK43 1 | £415,800 | 4 |
| MK43 2 | £372,000 | 5 |
| MK43 7 | £330,000 | 27 |
| MK43 8 | £466,400 | 35 |
| MK43 9 | £390,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full MK43 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK43 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in MK43 0: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK43 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK43 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK43 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim MK43 0.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK43 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK43 0 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.