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Crownhill market report MK5 6, Milton Keynes
The MK5 6 (Crownhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,998 HM Land Registry entries for MK5 6 (Milton Keynes), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in MK5 6 (Milton Keynes) came in at £387,500, out of 26 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £454,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,998 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
MK5 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside MK5 (Milton Keynes). 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 MK5 6 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.
MK5 6 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for MK5 6 is £387,500, taken from 26 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £454,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
MK5 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put MK5 6 at roughly £3,980 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, MK5 6 runs 36% above it.
MK5 6's median sold price, 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 | £387,500 | £387,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £312,500 | £319,973 | 82 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 91 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 90 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 113 |
| 2021 | £328,000 | £415,290 | 111 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 75 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 67 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 79 |
| 2017 | £252,500 | £344,385 | 94 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 119 |
| 2015 | £227,500 | £321,458 | 112 |
| 2014 | £217,000 | £307,852 | 102 |
| 2013 | £182,300 | £262,312 | 89 |
| 2012 | £183,000 | £269,353 | 71 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 75 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 74 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 89 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 86 |
| 2007 | £172,000 | £291,760 | 189 |
| 2006 | £203,000 | £352,382 | 266 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 215 |
| 2004 | £186,400 | £338,539 | 202 |
| 2003 | £172,000 | £316,866 | 263 |
| 2002 | £140,500 | £264,350 | 196 |
| 2001 | £108,000 | £207,624 | 137 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 151 |
| 1999 | £68,800 | £137,115 | 148 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 118 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 164 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 168 |
| 1995 | £74,800 | £162,604 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical MK5 6 home went from £74,800 in 1995 to £387,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 138%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the MK5 6 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 2002 (+30.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−25.0%). 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) | +24.0% | +21.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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, 26 sales completed in MK5 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 202 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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 kind of market MK5 6 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK5 6 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 tenants pay around MK5 6
The local authority for MK5 6 is Milton Keynes, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,336 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £972 a month here against £2,080 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Milton Keynes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,336 a month is £16,032 a year, which against the £387,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
Asked and answered: MK5 6 (Crownhill)
How much did a house sell for in MK5 6 (Crownhill)?
Are property prices falling in MK5 6 (Crownhill)?
Is MK5 6 (Crownhill) a good place to buy a house?
Where do MK5 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in MK5 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 19 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK5 district, not just MK5 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
63% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Forthill Place, Shenley Church End, M...
- Linceslade Grove, Loughton, Milton Ke...
- Northcroft, Shenley Lodge, Milton Key...
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 MK5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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
The spread across the MK area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in MK5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK5 7 | £415,000 | 27 |
| MK5 8 | £570,000 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full MK5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in MK5 6? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK5 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK5 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK5 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim MK5 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK5 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual MK5 6 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.
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.