What is the median house price in MK42?

Homes in MK42 sold for a median £299,095 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 417 sales. Per square metre that is £3,646/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in MK42?

Homes to let in MK42 asked a median £1,269 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 449 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in MK42?

4.5% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 876 lets. +2% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in MK42?

2.2% of the homes in MK42 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 498 sales.

Postcode district

MK42 property market

Sold £3,646/m² · Median sold £299,095 (417 sales) · Index +1% y/y · Turnover 2.2% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is MK42?

Buildings: 14,920
Mixed-use buildings: 79%
HMO-shaped units: 72%

What does MK42 cost?

MK42: sold price per m² £3,646/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 417 sales). +1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£3,646/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

417 sales

+1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£299,095 12 months to Apr 2026

417 sales

+1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£343,161 12 months to Aug 2026

1,595 listings

+2.3% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £2,683/m² in Jul 2016 to £3,513/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £223,083 in Jul 2016 to £277,589 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £340,000 in Jan 2022 to £309,995 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £5,439/m² in Aug 2025 to £3,658/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 103% in Jan 2022 to 97% in Nov 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.

ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices

Asking price index: 97 in Jan 2022 to 106.3 in Aug 2026.

What does MK42 earn?

MK42: asking rent £1,269 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 449 lets).

Asking rent

£1,269 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

449 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.5% 12 months to Aug 2026

876 lets

+2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,250 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,189 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 3.4% in Jan 2022 to 4.6% in Aug 2026.

How does MK42 vary by home size?

Asking price in MK42 runs from £145,980 for 1 bedroom to £605,182 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in MK42, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£145,980	12 months to Aug 2026	—	102
2 bedrooms	£250,315	12 months to Aug 2026	+2.9% on the previous 12 months	389
3 bedrooms	£346,971	12 months to Aug 2026	+0.4% on the previous 12 months	671
4 bedrooms	£457,255	12 months to Aug 2026	-1.3% on the previous 12 months	360
5+ bedrooms	£605,182	12 months to Aug 2026	—	84

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is MK42?

MK42: turnover 2.2% (12 months to Jan 2026, 498 sales). -2% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.2% 12 months to Jan 2026

498 sales

-2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

868 12 months to Jan 2026

868 sales

+5.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

825 12 months to Jul 2026

825 listings

Who is active in MK42?

41 agents listed homes for sale in MK42; the three largest took 25% of the listings.

Agents active: 41
Top three agents’ share: 25%
New homes among listings: 18%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns MK42?

Corporate landlords hold 96% of the 2,193 units in MK42 whose freeholder is classified; 91% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords96% of classified · 2,097 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)2.5% of classified · 54 units
Housing associations1.7% of classified · 37 units
RMC0.2% of classified · 5 units

Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.

Where does MK42 rank?

MK42 ranks 4th of 6 postcode districts in Bedford for sold price per m², at £3,646/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in Bedford