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Crownhill market report MK8 1, Milton Keynes
The standing MK8 1 (Crownhill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,050 registered sales in MK8 1 (Milton Keynes) since 2015, 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for MK8 1 (Milton Keynes) is £430,000, from 25 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £361,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,050 HM Land Registry entries going back to 2015, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like MK8 1 is a single group of streets within MK8 (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 MK8 1 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 MK8 1
Across 25 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) MK8 1 home went for £430,000. The mean is £361,500, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
MK8 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of MK8 1 sales average about £3,980 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, MK8 1 sits 51% above the national market.
The price of a typical MK8 1 home, 2015 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 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 226 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 335 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 199 |
| 2022 | £462,500 | £542,334 | 192 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 177 |
| 2020 | £390,500 | £506,682 | 150 |
| 2019 | £382,000 | £500,711 | 230 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 226 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 202 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 77 |
| 2015 | £420,000 | £593,460 | 11 |
In cash terms the typical MK8 1 home went from £420,000 in 2015 to £430,000 in 2026, a 2% rise. Adjust for inflation and the direction reverses: a real fall of about 28%, leaving a typical home cheaper in today's money than in 2015. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2015. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the MK8 1 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 2022 (+17.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−7.5%). 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) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
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, 25 sales completed in MK8 1. 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.
The shape of the MK8 1 market
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the MK8 district median, MK8 1 sits 25% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around MK8 1
For renting purposes MK8 1 sits in Milton Keynes. The ONS average private rent there is £1,336 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £430,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,336 a month (£16,032 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
Common questions on MK8 1 (Crownhill)
How much did a house sell for in MK8 1 (Crownhill)?
Are property prices falling in MK8 1 (Crownhill)?
Is MK8 1 (Crownhill) a good place to buy a house?
Will MK8 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in MK8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole MK8 district, not just MK8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 MK8 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
Real sold prices by size across the MK area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 MK8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of MK8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| MK8 0 | £350,000 | 30 |
| MK8 8 | £265,000 | 25 |
| MK8 9 | £310,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full MK8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how MK8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in MK8 1? 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 MK8 1'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 MK8 1.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about MK8 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual MK8 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.