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Browns Wood market report MK7 8, Milton Keynes
The standing MK7 8 (Browns Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,720 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in MK7 8 (Milton Keynes) 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 2026 median for MK7 8 (Milton Keynes) is £375,500, from 32 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £390,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,720 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like MK7 8 is a single group of streets within MK7 (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 MK7 8 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 buyers actually paid in MK7 8
32 sales were registered in MK7 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £375,500. The mean works out at £390,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in MK7 8
A square metre of MK7 8 home has cost about £4,140 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so MK7 8 trades 32% above the country as a whole.
MK7 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,500 | £375,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 41 |
| 2024 | £317,500 | £337,568 | 48 |
| 2023 | £362,500 | £398,299 | 51 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 64 |
| 2021 | £346,000 | £438,081 | 67 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 38 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 59 |
| 2018 | £293,500 | £391,241 | 51 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 66 |
| 2016 | £288,000 | £402,915 | 65 |
| 2015 | £273,000 | £385,749 | 69 |
| 2014 | £232,500 | £329,842 | 82 |
| 2013 | £234,000 | £336,703 | 76 |
| 2012 | £230,500 | £339,267 | 63 |
| 2011 | £174,500 | £263,428 | 75 |
| 2010 | £163,200 | £255,940 | 66 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 73 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 107 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 109 |
| 2006 | £164,500 | £285,551 | 150 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 114 |
| 2004 | £169,000 | £306,937 | 143 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 162 |
| 2002 | £127,800 | £240,455 | 176 |
| 2001 | £101,000 | £194,167 | 199 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 198 |
| 1999 | £102,000 | £203,281 | 251 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 240 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 191 |
| 1996 | £73,600 | £155,219 | 294 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 300 |
In cash terms the typical MK7 8 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £375,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: 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 22% 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 MK7 8 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 2012 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−14.1%). 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) | +2.9% | +0.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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 MK7 8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in MK7 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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 kind of market MK7 8 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes MK7 8 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. Within MK7, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of MK7 8
MK7 8 falls under Milton Keynes, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,336 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £972 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,080, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Milton Keynes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £375,500 median sold price, £1,336 a month is £16,032 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
What people ask about MK7 8 (Browns Wood)
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Will MK7 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 MK7 now
The live side of the market holds 26 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK7 district, not just MK7 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
58% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Tallis Lane,Browns Wood,Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes
- Harley Drive, Walton, Milton Keynes, ...
- Holst Crescent, Old Farm Park, Milton Keynes
"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 MK7 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.
What another bedroom costs in MK
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
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 MK7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of MK7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK7 6 | £315,000 | 9 |
| MK7 7 | £276,800 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full MK7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in MK7 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in MK7 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from MK7 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded MK7 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim MK7 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with MK7 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK7 8 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.