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Bourne End market report MK43 8, Bedford
The MK43 8 (Bourne End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,871 registered sales in MK43 8 (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: 35 registered 2026 sales put the MK43 8 (Bedford) median at £466,400, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £523,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,871 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
MK43 8 is one sector of MK43 (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 MK43 8 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 MK43 8
The MK43 8 median stands at £466,400 for 2026, built from 35 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £523,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in MK43 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in MK43 8 costs about £4,240 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, MK43 8 sits 64% above the national market.
MK43 8's median sold price, 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 | £466,400 | £466,400 | 35 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 112 |
| 2024 | £457,500 | £486,416 | 117 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 113 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 123 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 137 |
| 2020 | £366,000 | £474,893 | 94 |
| 2019 | £357,500 | £468,597 | 99 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 91 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 69 |
| 2016 | £337,500 | £472,166 | 102 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 125 |
| 2014 | £257,500 | £365,309 | 114 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 99 |
| 2012 | £246,100 | £362,228 | 98 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 83 |
| 2010 | £264,000 | £414,020 | 100 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 87 |
| 2008 | £268,000 | £439,309 | 69 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 123 |
| 2006 | £227,500 | £394,911 | 169 |
| 2005 | £224,500 | £399,520 | 156 |
| 2004 | £222,000 | £403,195 | 153 |
| 2003 | £191,000 | £351,868 | 102 |
| 2002 | £174,500 | £328,320 | 148 |
| 2001 | £175,000 | £336,429 | 189 |
| 2000 | £150,500 | £295,356 | 204 |
| 1999 | £116,000 | £231,182 | 199 |
| 1998 | £109,000 | £220,024 | 135 |
| 1997 | £87,500 | £179,445 | 155 |
| 1996 | £73,500 | £155,008 | 158 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical MK43 8 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £466,400 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK43 8 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 2000 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−22.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK43 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +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.
Transaction volumes
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, 35 sales completed in MK43 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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 kind of market MK43 8 is
This is a thin market: 35 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. Against the MK43 district median, MK43 8 sits 20% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of MK43 8
For renting purposes MK43 8 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.
£1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, which against the £466,400 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. 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.
What people ask about MK43 8 (Bourne End)
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Is MK43 8 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
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Will MK43 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 64 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK43 district, not just MK43 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Lidlington, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire
- Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire
- Lidlington, Bedford, Bedford
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in MK
Real sold prices by size across the MK area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 0 | £375,000 | 72 |
| MK43 1 | £415,800 | 4 |
| MK43 2 | £372,000 | 5 |
| MK43 7 | £330,000 | 27 |
| 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 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK43 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK43 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK43 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim MK43 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK43 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual MK43 8 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.