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Begwary market report MK44, Bedford
The standing MK44 (Begwary) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,875 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK44 (Bedford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in MK44 (Bedford) came in at £425,000, out of 79 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £490,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,875 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
MK44 is the postcode district covering Begwary, Bletsoe, Blunham in Bedford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where MK44 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 MK44 prices, from the sold record
Across 79 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) MK44 home went for £425,000. The mean is £490,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
MK44 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put MK44 at roughly £3,900 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so MK44 trades 49% above the country as a whole.
A typical MK44 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 79 |
| 2025 | £467,500 | £478,679 | 281 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 244 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 203 |
| 2022 | £447,500 | £524,745 | 248 |
| 2021 | £430,200 | £544,689 | 336 |
| 2020 | £388,500 | £504,087 | 230 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 259 |
| 2018 | £383,700 | £511,479 | 230 |
| 2017 | £347,500 | £473,955 | 212 |
| 2016 | £332,500 | £465,171 | 250 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 243 |
| 2014 | £280,500 | £397,938 | 267 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 239 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 181 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 183 |
| 2010 | £237,200 | £371,991 | 192 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 206 |
| 2008 | £264,200 | £433,080 | 172 |
| 2007 | £295,000 | £500,402 | 277 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 312 |
| 2005 | £230,800 | £410,731 | 241 |
| 2004 | £205,100 | £372,502 | 272 |
| 2003 | £197,000 | £362,922 | 261 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 272 |
| 2001 | £146,200 | £281,062 | 260 |
| 2000 | £125,500 | £246,294 | 290 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 303 |
| 1998 | £97,000 | £195,801 | 305 |
| 1997 | £91,200 | £187,033 | 302 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 272 |
| 1995 | £77,000 | £167,386 | 253 |
In cash terms the typical MK44 home went from £77,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK44 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 2007 (+20.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 55% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £542,500 against £172,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, MK44
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 | £577,500 | 40 | 4,337 |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | 25 | 1,843 |
| Terraced | £295,000 | 11 | 1,532 |
| Flats | £172,000 (2024) | – | 136 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 188 MK44 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 273 sales a year before the financial crisis and 211 a year over the last five. 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.
What homes rent for around MK44
MK44 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.
Set against the £425,000 median sold price, £1,168 a month is £14,016 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market MK44 is
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. MK44 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Asked and answered: MK44 (Begwary)
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What happens to MK44 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
MK44's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in MK44 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the MK44 median sold price.
10% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in MK: the cost
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
MK44 ranks 23 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.
Winners and losers across the MK area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside MK44, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 1 | £377,500 | 28 |
| MK44 2 | £680,000 | 13 |
| MK44 3 | £429,500 | 38 |
How MK44 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the MK area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 (this report) | £425,000 | -1% |
| MK17 | £420,000 | +6% |
| MK1 | £405,000 | +17% |
| MK46 | £405,000 | +1% |
| MK5 | £400,000 | +7% |
| MK45 | £397,500 | +6% |
| MK43 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in MK44? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK44, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK44 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK44 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim MK44.
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The live map plots every individual MK44 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.