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Ampthill market report MK45 5, Bedford
The MK45 5 (Ampthill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,762 registered sales in MK45 5 (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: the typical home in MK45 5 (Bedford) sold for £415,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £475,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,300 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,762 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
MK45 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside MK45 (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 MK45 5 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 MK45 5 homes really sell for
In the MK45 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £415,000, from 27 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £475,900, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in MK45 5
Per square metre, MK45 5 homes have averaged around £4,300 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, MK45 5 sits 46% above the national market.
The price of a typical MK45 5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 78 |
| 2024 | £495,000 | £526,287 | 75 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 52 |
| 2022 | £533,800 | £625,941 | 60 |
| 2021 | £451,200 | £571,277 | 84 |
| 2020 | £435,200 | £564,681 | 78 |
| 2019 | £405,000 | £530,858 | 56 |
| 2018 | £427,500 | £569,866 | 74 |
| 2017 | £377,500 | £514,872 | 68 |
| 2016 | £358,200 | £501,125 | 82 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 92 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 95 |
| 2013 | £268,500 | £386,345 | 84 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 67 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 67 |
| 2010 | £299,700 | £470,007 | 88 |
| 2009 | £230,800 | £371,013 | 86 |
| 2008 | £249,000 | £408,164 | 50 |
| 2007 | £281,500 | £477,502 | 97 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 111 |
| 2005 | £242,200 | £431,018 | 86 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 125 |
| 2003 | £231,000 | £425,558 | 96 |
| 2002 | £176,800 | £332,648 | 130 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 104 |
| 2000 | £146,000 | £286,525 | 109 |
| 1999 | £117,500 | £234,171 | 127 |
| 1998 | £99,000 | £199,839 | 102 |
| 1997 | £108,000 | £221,486 | 105 |
| 1996 | £107,000 | £225,658 | 111 |
| 1995 | £81,800 | £177,821 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical MK45 5 home went from £81,800 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. 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 5 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 1996 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−21.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.5% | −15.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 MK45 5
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.
The register shows 27 MK45 5 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 107 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market MK45 5 is
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK45 5 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.
What homes rent for around MK45 5
MK45 5 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £862 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,039, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £415,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,247 a month (£14,964 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
What people ask about MK45 5 (Ampthill)
Are property prices falling in MK45 5 (Ampthill)?
Is MK45 5 (Ampthill) a good place to buy a house?
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Where do MK45 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Oliver Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, Ampthill
- Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire
- Maulden, Bedford, Bedford
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 MK45 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the MK area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in MK45
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are MK45's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK45 1 | £345,000 | 80 |
| MK45 2 | £450,000 | 69 |
| MK45 3 | £380,000 | 57 |
| MK45 4 | £405,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full MK45 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK45 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK45 5? 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 MK45 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim MK45 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK45 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK45 5 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.
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.