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Begwary market report MK44 1, Bedford
The MK44 1 (Begwary) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,755 registered sales in MK44 1 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in MK44 1 (Bedford) sold for £377,500 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £444,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,890 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,755 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 MK44 1 is a single group of streets within MK44 (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 MK44 1 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 MK44 1
In the MK44 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £377,500, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £444,400, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in MK44 1
By floor space, homes in MK44 1 have sold for about £3,890 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts MK44 1 32% above the country at large.
A typical MK44 1 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 | £377,500 | £377,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 77 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 73 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 81 |
| 2022 | £460,000 | £539,402 | 99 |
| 2021 | £377,500 | £477,964 | 112 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 57 |
| 2019 | £397,500 | £521,027 | 72 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 65 |
| 2017 | £308,500 | £420,763 | 74 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 93 |
| 2015 | £308,000 | £435,204 | 90 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 89 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 72 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 58 |
| 2011 | £263,800 | £398,237 | 62 |
| 2010 | £227,500 | £356,779 | 76 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 63 |
| 2008 | £264,000 | £432,752 | 50 |
| 2007 | £271,500 | £460,540 | 97 |
| 2006 | £243,500 | £422,685 | 117 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 99 |
| 2004 | £205,100 | £372,502 | 136 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 110 |
| 2002 | £193,500 | £364,069 | 96 |
| 2001 | £145,400 | £279,524 | 103 |
| 2000 | £138,000 | £270,825 | 99 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 91 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 113 |
| 1997 | £99,000 | £203,029 | 119 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 96 |
| 1995 | £69,000 | £149,995 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical MK44 1 home went from £69,000 in 1995 to £377,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 30% 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 MK44 1 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 1997 (+42.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−22.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.2% | −15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in MK44 1
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in MK44 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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 homes rent for around MK44 1
MK44 1 falls under Bedford, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £377,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,168 a month (£14,016 a year) works out at a 3.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How MK44 1 trades
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK44 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within MK44, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
MK44 1 (Begwary): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in MK44 1 (Begwary)?
Are property prices falling in MK44 1 (Begwary)?
Is MK44 1 (Begwary) a good place to buy a house?
Will MK44 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in MK44 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK44 district, not just MK44 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 MK44 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the MK area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 MK44
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are MK44's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 2 | £680,000 | 13 |
| MK44 3 | £429,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full MK44 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK44 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in MK44 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK44 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK44 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK44 1 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 MK44 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK44 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every MK44 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.