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Begwary market report MK44 2, Bedford
The MK44 2 (Begwary) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 1,452 registered sales in MK44 2 (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: the middle 2026 sale in MK44 2 (Bedford) came in at £680,000, out of 13 registered, up 39% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £671,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,452 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like MK44 2 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 2 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 2
Take the 13 registered 2026 sales in MK44 2 and the middle price, the median, is £680,000. The mean lands at £671,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in MK44 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of MK44 2 sales average about £3,930 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 MK44 2 139% above the national figure.
A typical MK44 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £680,000 | £680,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £497,500 | £509,397 | 60 |
| 2024 | £474,000 | £503,959 | 60 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 35 |
| 2022 | £493,800 | £579,037 | 42 |
| 2021 | £487,500 | £617,238 | 58 |
| 2020 | £440,000 | £570,909 | 43 |
| 2019 | £432,500 | £566,904 | 48 |
| 2018 | £433,800 | £578,264 | 34 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 37 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 46 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 48 |
| 2014 | £305,000 | £432,696 | 54 |
| 2013 | £333,800 | £480,305 | 48 |
| 2012 | £292,500 | £430,523 | 33 |
| 2011 | £330,000 | £498,173 | 25 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 27 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 39 |
| 2008 | £309,500 | £507,336 | 32 |
| 2007 | £323,500 | £548,746 | 58 |
| 2006 | £335,000 | £581,517 | 47 |
| 2005 | £255,000 | £453,797 | 38 |
| 2004 | £257,500 | £467,670 | 48 |
| 2003 | £231,500 | £426,479 | 46 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 50 |
| 2001 | £168,200 | £323,356 | 42 |
| 2000 | £167,500 | £328,719 | 63 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 61 |
| 1998 | £111,000 | £224,061 | 60 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 57 |
| 1996 | £90,500 | £190,860 | 53 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical MK44 2 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £680,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 248%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the MK44 2 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 2026 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.8%). 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) | +36.7% | +33.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.9% | +2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in MK44 2
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 13 MK44 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 42 sales a year recently, against 49 a year before 2008. 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 MK44 2 is
This is a thin market: 13 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 MK44 district median, MK44 2 sits 60% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of MK44 2
For renting purposes MK44 2 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 £680,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.1%. 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 MK44 2 (Begwary)
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Will MK44 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 10% 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 MK44 now
The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK44 district, not just MK44 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every MK44 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: MK prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the MK area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £377,500 | 28 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in MK44 2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK44 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK44 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK44 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual MK44 2 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.