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Crownhill market report MK5, Milton Keynes
The MK5 (Crownhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,850 sales registered with HM Land Registry in MK5 (Milton Keynes) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical MK5 (Milton Keynes) home changed hands for £400,000 in 2026 (median of 65 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £462,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,090 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,850 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
MK5 is a postcode district covering Crownhill, Elfield Park, Grange Farm in Milton Keynes. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where MK5 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 sold prices: where the market stands
In the MK5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £400,000, from 65 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £462,500, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in MK5
Per square metre, MK5 homes have averaged around £4,090 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so MK5 trades 40% above the country as a whole.
A typical MK5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 168 |
| 2024 | £442,500 | £470,468 | 164 |
| 2023 | £405,000 | £444,996 | 155 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 205 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 238 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 169 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 158 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 172 |
| 2017 | £318,800 | £434,811 | 222 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 227 |
| 2015 | £275,500 | £389,282 | 230 |
| 2014 | £273,000 | £387,298 | 217 |
| 2013 | £242,800 | £349,365 | 200 |
| 2012 | £236,500 | £348,098 | 171 |
| 2011 | £222,000 | £335,135 | 178 |
| 2010 | £229,500 | £359,915 | 194 |
| 2009 | £197,000 | £316,679 | 218 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 221 |
| 2007 | £205,500 | £348,585 | 422 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 509 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 435 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 484 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 651 |
| 2002 | £163,500 | £307,624 | 580 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 536 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 511 |
| 1999 | £103,200 | £205,672 | 474 |
| 1998 | £93,200 | £188,131 | 468 |
| 1997 | £87,500 | £179,445 | 535 |
| 1996 | £77,200 | £162,811 | 382 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 291 |
In cash terms the typical MK5 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 173%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% 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 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 2000 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What MK5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £580,000 against £234,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, MK5
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 | £580,000 | 35 | 4,960 |
| Semi-detached | £342,000 | 17 | 2,252 |
| Terraced | £305,000 | 5 | 1,360 |
| Flats | £234,000 | 8 | 1,278 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
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 130 MK5 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 516 sales a year before the financial crisis and 151 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 tenants pay around MK5
The local authority for MK5 is Milton Keynes, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £400,000 median sold price, £1,336 a month is £16,032 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
How MK5 trades
Only 130 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK5 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. Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, MK5 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about MK5 (Crownhill)
How much did a house sell for in MK5 (Crownhill)?
Are property prices falling in MK5 (Crownhill)?
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Will MK5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
Everything above is what homes in MK5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the MK5 median sold price.
63% 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.
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"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 MK5 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the MK area. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
MK5 ranks 12 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.
Five-year change in the median, MK area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside MK5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK5 6 | £387,500 | 26 |
| MK5 7 | £415,000 | 27 |
| MK5 8 | £570,000 | 12 |
How MK5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the MK area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| MK44 | £425,000 | -1% |
| MK17 | £420,000 | +6% |
| MK1 | £405,000 | +17% |
| MK46 | £405,000 | +1% |
| MK5 (this report) | £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% |
Selling a home in MK5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at MK5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim MK5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK5 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.
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.