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Bourne End market report MK43, Bedford
The MK43 (Bourne End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 21,454 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in MK43 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 192 registered 2026 sales put the MK43 (Bedford) median at £389,500, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £421,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,850 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 21,454 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
MK43 is a postcode district covering Bourne End, Brogborough, Box End in Bedford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where MK43 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.
Today's MK43 prices, from the sold record
The MK43 median stands at £389,500 for 2026, built from 192 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £421,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in MK43
Measured by floor area, the last five years of MK43 sales average about £3,850 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving MK43 37% above the national figure.
A typical MK43 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £389,500 | £389,500 | 192 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 563 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 607 |
| 2023 | £388,000 | £426,317 | 579 |
| 2022 | £396,000 | £464,355 | 747 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 1,030 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 774 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 837 |
| 2018 | £317,000 | £422,567 | 1,026 |
| 2017 | £304,000 | £414,625 | 833 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 944 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 826 |
| 2014 | £245,500 | £348,285 | 674 |
| 2013 | £227,500 | £327,350 | 535 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 425 |
| 2011 | £208,500 | £314,755 | 406 |
| 2010 | £212,000 | £332,471 | 424 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 379 |
| 2008 | £206,800 | £338,989 | 324 |
| 2007 | £229,500 | £389,296 | 708 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 765 |
| 2005 | £197,200 | £350,937 | 602 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 758 |
| 2003 | £173,500 | £319,629 | 601 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 762 |
| 2001 | £118,500 | £227,810 | 765 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 761 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 857 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 659 |
| 1997 | £69,700 | £142,941 | 778 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 700 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 613 |
In cash terms the typical MK43 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £389,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 171%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the MK43 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £515,000 against £183,800 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, MK43
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £515,000 | 83 | 9,143 |
| Semi-detached | £355,000 | 63 | 7,010 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 38 | 4,827 |
| Flats | £183,800 | 8 | 474 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 418 MK43 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 715 sales a year before the financial crisis and 538 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.
What kind of market MK43 is
MK43 sits 7 of 26 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around MK43
MK43 falls under Bedford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,168 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £796 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,800, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £389,500 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.
What people ask about MK43 (Bourne End)
How much did a house sell for in MK43 (Bourne End)?
Are property prices falling in MK43 (Bourne End)?
Is MK43 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
Will MK43 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in MK43 right now
Everything above is what homes in MK43 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 64 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the MK43 median sold price.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 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.
What another bedroom costs in MK
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the MK area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
MK43 ranks 8 of 26 in the MK area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
MK area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside MK43, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| MK43 9 | £390,000 | 49 |
How MK43 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the MK area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 | £425,000 | -1% |
| MK17 | £420,000 | +6% |
| MK1 | £405,000 | +17% |
| MK46 | £405,000 | +1% |
| MK5 | £400,000 | +7% |
| MK45 | £397,500 | +6% |
| MK43 (this report) | £389,500 | +11% |
| MK19 | £387,500 | +5% |
| MK18 | £370,000 | +1% |
| MK10 | £357,500 | +2% |
| MK3 | £349,000 | +18% |
| MK4 | £347,500 | +2% |
| MK8 | £345,000 | -5% |
| MK41 | £340,000 | +11% |
| MK16 | £339,000 | +3% |
| MK40 | £327,500 | +11% |
| MK11 | £325,000 | -4% |
| MK14 | £325,000 | +10% |
| MK15 | £325,000 | +1% |
| MK42 | £319,500 | +18% |
| MK7 | £310,000 | +5% |
| MK12 | £295,000 | +10% |
| MK13 | £291,000 | +13% |
| MK2 | £290,000 | +12% |
Before you sell in MK43: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK43, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK43 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK43 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.