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Bourne End market report MK43 9, Bedford
The standing MK43 9 (Bourne End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,286 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK43 9 (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: the typical home in MK43 9 (Bedford) sold for £390,000 in 2026, the median of 49 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier. The mean was £412,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,690 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,286 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like MK43 9 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 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.
What MK43 9 homes really sell for
The MK43 9 median stands at £390,000 for 2026, built from 49 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £412,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in MK43 9
Per square metre, MK43 9 homes have averaged around £3,690 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 MK43 9 37% above the national figure.
The price of a typical MK43 9 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 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 133 |
| 2024 | £352,500 | £374,780 | 148 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 156 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 237 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 387 |
| 2020 | £330,000 | £428,182 | 310 |
| 2019 | £318,000 | £416,822 | 323 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 348 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 276 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 297 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 185 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 179 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 140 |
| 2012 | £207,600 | £305,561 | 86 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 99 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 76 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 64 |
| 2008 | £198,500 | £325,383 | 54 |
| 2007 | £214,000 | £363,004 | 133 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 137 |
| 2005 | £165,500 | £294,523 | 99 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 118 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 100 |
| 2002 | £124,000 | £233,305 | 151 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 144 |
| 2000 | £92,500 | £181,531 | 151 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 204 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 147 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 139 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 110 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical MK43 9 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK43 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 (+35.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−23.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK43 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.0% | +1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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, 49 sales completed in MK43 9. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 145 sales a year over the last five years against 129 before the financial crisis. 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.
How MK43 9 trades
Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK43 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around MK43 9
The local authority for MK43 9 is Bedford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,168 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £390,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
MK43 9 (Bourne End): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in MK43 9 (Bourne End)?
Is MK43 9 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK43 9 (Bourne End)?
Are MK43 9 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 is for sale in MK43 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 64 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK43 district, not just MK43 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% 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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"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in MK
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the MK area. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in MK43
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK43, one report each:
| 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 8 | £466,400 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full MK43 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK43 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK43 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK43 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK43 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK43 9 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 9.
Dig further
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See every individual MK43 9 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.
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.