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Begwary market report MK44 3, Bedford
The standing MK44 3 (Begwary) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,668 registered sales in MK44 3 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 38 registered 2026 sales put the MK44 3 (Bedford) median at £429,500, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £461,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,668 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
MK44 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside MK44 (Bedford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where MK44 3 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.
The going rate for a home in MK44 3
In the MK44 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £429,500, from 38 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £461,900, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in MK44 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of MK44 3 sales average about £3,900 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 3 51% above the national figure.
A typical MK44 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £429,500 | £429,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £468,000 | £479,191 | 144 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 111 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 87 |
| 2022 | £418,000 | £490,153 | 107 |
| 2021 | £432,500 | £547,601 | 166 |
| 2020 | £376,000 | £487,868 | 130 |
| 2019 | £378,000 | £495,468 | 139 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 131 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 101 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 111 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 105 |
| 2014 | £281,200 | £398,931 | 124 |
| 2013 | £242,000 | £348,214 | 119 |
| 2012 | £230,500 | £339,267 | 90 |
| 2011 | £238,800 | £360,496 | 96 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 89 |
| 2009 | £247,800 | £398,341 | 104 |
| 2008 | £237,500 | £389,313 | 90 |
| 2007 | £277,500 | £470,717 | 122 |
| 2006 | £221,500 | £384,496 | 148 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 104 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 88 |
| 2003 | £176,500 | £325,156 | 105 |
| 2002 | £142,500 | £268,113 | 126 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 115 |
| 2000 | £100,500 | £197,231 | 128 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 151 |
| 1998 | £93,600 | £188,938 | 132 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 126 |
| 1996 | £81,000 | £170,825 | 123 |
| 1995 | £78,500 | £170,647 | 118 |
In cash terms the typical MK44 3 home went from £78,500 in 1995 to £429,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 152%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the MK44 3 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 2001 (+25.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK44 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.2% | −10.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in MK44 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in MK44 3. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 97 sales a year recently, against 117 a year before 2008. 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.
The shape of the MK44 3 market
This is a thin market: 38 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around MK44 3
MK44 3 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 £429,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
MK44 3 (Begwary): the questions that come up
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What happens to MK44 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 MK44 right 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 3: 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" 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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: MK prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in MK44
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK44, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 1 | £377,500 | 28 |
| MK44 2 | £680,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full MK44 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK44 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK44 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at MK44 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working MK44 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim MK44 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK44 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual MK44 3 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.