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Crownhill market report MK5 7, Milton Keynes
The standing MK5 7 (Crownhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,146 HM Land Registry entries for MK5 7 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 27 registered 2026 sales put the MK5 7 (Milton Keynes) median at £415,000, down 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £404,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,050 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,146 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like MK5 7 is a single group of streets within MK5 (Milton Keynes), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where MK5 7 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 MK5 7 sells for
Take the 27 registered 2026 sales in MK5 7 and the middle price, the median, is £415,000. The mean lands at £404,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in MK5 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of MK5 7 sales average about £4,050 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, MK5 7 runs 46% above it.
The price of a typical MK5 7 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 51 |
| 2024 | £466,200 | £495,666 | 46 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 45 |
| 2022 | £510,000 | £598,033 | 63 |
| 2021 | £420,000 | £531,774 | 81 |
| 2020 | £432,500 | £561,178 | 58 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 58 |
| 2018 | £302,000 | £402,572 | 67 |
| 2017 | £337,500 | £460,316 | 90 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 77 |
| 2015 | £362,500 | £512,213 | 86 |
| 2014 | £315,000 | £446,883 | 83 |
| 2013 | £262,500 | £377,711 | 78 |
| 2012 | £259,000 | £381,216 | 63 |
| 2011 | £232,000 | £350,231 | 68 |
| 2010 | £239,000 | £374,814 | 71 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 81 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 95 |
| 2007 | £228,000 | £386,752 | 170 |
| 2006 | £205,500 | £356,722 | 162 |
| 2005 | £211,200 | £375,851 | 164 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 221 |
| 2003 | £205,000 | £377,660 | 277 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 314 |
| 2001 | £142,000 | £272,988 | 295 |
| 2000 | £137,500 | £269,844 | 237 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 222 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 248 |
| 1997 | £104,000 | £213,283 | 268 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 157 |
| 1995 | £72,400 | £157,386 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical MK5 7 home went from £72,400 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the MK5 7 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 1997 (+56.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.5%). 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) | −7.8% | −9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in MK5 7
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.
MK5 7 recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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 homes rent for around MK5 7
MK5 7 falls under Milton Keynes, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,336 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £972 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,080 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Milton Keynes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £415,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,336 a month (£16,032 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
How MK5 7 trades
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK5 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Asked and answered: MK5 7 (Crownhill)
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Where do MK5 7 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
What you could buy in MK5 now
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 63% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 6 | £387,500 | 26 |
| 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.
Before you sell in MK5 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in MK5 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the MK5 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded MK5 7 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 MK5 7.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to MK5 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK5 7 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.