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Ampthill market report MK45 4, Bedford
The standing MK45 4 (Ampthill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 6,078 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in MK45 4 (Bedford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in MK45 4 (Bedford) came in at £405,000, out of 61 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £454,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,078 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
MK45 4 is one sector of MK45 (Bedford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where MK45 4 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 a home in MK45 4 sells for
The MK45 4 median stands at £405,000 for 2026, built from 61 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £454,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
MK45 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in MK45 4 costs about £4,390 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving MK45 4 42% above the national figure.
MK45 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £398,200 | £407,722 | 180 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 141 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 101 |
| 2022 | £522,500 | £612,691 | 180 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 242 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 187 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 136 |
| 2018 | £336,500 | £448,561 | 137 |
| 2017 | £334,600 | £456,361 | 164 |
| 2016 | £360,000 | £503,644 | 213 |
| 2015 | £306,100 | £432,519 | 218 |
| 2014 | £279,500 | £396,520 | 258 |
| 2013 | £247,200 | £355,696 | 232 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 145 |
| 2011 | £230,500 | £347,966 | 154 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 132 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 102 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 93 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 179 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 243 |
| 2005 | £195,500 | £347,911 | 180 |
| 2004 | £216,800 | £393,751 | 224 |
| 2003 | £186,000 | £342,657 | 196 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 269 |
| 2001 | £138,500 | £266,259 | 210 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 272 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 357 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 255 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 205 |
| 1996 | £76,000 | £160,281 | 250 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical MK45 4 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 144%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 34% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK45 4 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 2022 (+30.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−26.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK45 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 MK45 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 61 MK45 4 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 222 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 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 tenants pay around MK45 4
The local authority for MK45 4 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £862 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,039 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £405,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
MK45 4 (Ampthill): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in MK45 4 (Ampthill)?
Is MK45 4 (Ampthill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in MK45 4 (Ampthill)?
Will MK45 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
MK45's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 492 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK45 district, not just MK45 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Oliver Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, Ampthill
- Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire
- Maulden, Bedford, Bedford
"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 MK45 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
Real sold prices by size across the MK area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
MK area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in MK45
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK45, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK45 1 | £345,000 | 80 |
| MK45 2 | £450,000 | 69 |
| MK45 3 | £380,000 | 57 |
| MK45 5 | £415,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full MK45 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK45 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in MK45 4? 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 MK45 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK45 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK45 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working MK45 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim MK45 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK45 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual MK45 4 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.