Bower Street, Bedford house prices are built from 321 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +53.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.0%.
Median price paid
£167,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+53.2%
Change in real terms
+11.0%
Median per m²
£2,233
HM Land Registry321 sales81 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Bower Street, Bedford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bower Street, Bedford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £58,700 | £130,342 |
| 2000s | 10 | £163,000 | £296,938 |
| 2010s | 9 | £228,500 | £322,185 |
| 2020s | 5 | £335,000 | £342,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bower Street, Bedford is £357,500 in 2024; the lowest is £53,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £53,000 to £350,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,685, so the real change over the whole record is +203.9% — about +3.77% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +53.2% in cash against +11.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £385,500 | £385,500 |
| 43 | 6 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 31 | 16 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 140 | 14 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £332,000 | £339,217 |
| 139 | 15 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 36 | 4 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 99 | 23 May 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 133 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £615,000 | £628,370 |
| 160 | 28 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £312,500 | £319,293 |
| 50 | 29 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £340,000 | £357,761 |
| 44 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 68 | 11 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 148 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £336,000 | £353,552 |
| 146 | 26 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 59 | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £384,500 | £404,586 |
| 5 | 13 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 1 | 6 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £428,000 | £462,437 |
| 103 | 14 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 53 | 18 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 66 | 22 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £297,000 | £320,897 |
| 165 | 19 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| 22 | 6 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £346,000 | £373,839 |
| 105 | 31 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £250,000 | £270,115 |
| 132 | 16 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £330,000 | £356,552 |
| 116 | 27 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £402,000 | £434,345 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Bower Street, Bedford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Bower Street | £176,000 (2012) | £385,500 (2026) | +5.8% | +2.8% |
| 31 Bower Street | £154,000 (2003) | £440,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 140 Bower Street | £43,000 (1995) | £332,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 36 Bower Street | £59,000 (1997) | £315,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 99 Bower Street | £207,000 (2014) | £350,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +1.7% |
| 50 Bower Street | £163,000 (2005) | £340,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 68 Bower Street | £49,250 (1995) | £365,000 (2024) | +7.2% | +4.4% |
| 148 Bower Street | £172,000 (2006) | £336,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 146 Bower Street | £92,000 (2001) | £375,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 59 Bower Street | £50,000 (1998) | £384,500 (2024) | +8.2% | +5.4% |
| 5 Bower Street | £86,000 (2000) | £325,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 1 Bower Street | £165,000 (2009) | £428,000 (2023) | +7.0% | +3.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bower Street, Bedford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 270 | 84.1% | £166,000 | £42,000 – £615,000 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 13.4% | £185,000 | £51,500 – £428,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 1.6% | £120,000 | £116,000 – £198,500 |
| Detached | 3 | 0.9% | £147,500 | £133,500 – £330,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bower Street, Bedford
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 316 freehold — 1.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £120,000 and the median freehold sale £168,475 — a gap of +40.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 5 | 1.6% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 316 | 98.4% | £168,475 |
A further 6 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Bower Street, Bedford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bedford, 53.4% of 89,810 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 533 | 0.6% |
| B | 15,837 | 17.6% |
| C | 31,561 | 35.1% |
| D | 27,652 | 30.8% |
| E | 10,931 | 12.2% |
| F | 2,620 | 2.9% |
| G | 676 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bedford at £1,169 a month as of Jun 2026 — £797 for a one-bedroom home and £1,255 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £167,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.40% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of MK40, 693 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 244 violent, 31 burglary, 32 vehicle-related and 84 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.1 times busier.
Against the 185,225 residents the 2021 census counted in Bedford, that is 3.74 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Bower Street, Bedford
The 2021 census counted 185,225 residents in Bedford across 74,949 households. 64.6% of those households own their home and 35.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a MK40 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biddenham International School and Sports College | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,422 |
| Great Denham Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 677 |
| Castle Newnham School | Primary | Academy converter | 624 |
| Great Ouse Primary Academy | Primary | Free schools | 455 |
| Queen's Park Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 446 |
| Westfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 298 |
| St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary and Pre-School | Primary | Academy converter | 271 |
| Priory Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 214 |
| St James' CofE Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 194 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Bedford St Johns Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Kempston Hardwick Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Stewartby Rail Station | Rail | 8.2 km |
Section 09
How Bower Street, Bedford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bower Street, Bedford sits above that national figure — +6.0%.
Within Bedford the street ranks 1765 of 2640 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-9.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,233 per square metre, across 81 of the 321 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £42,000 to £615,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Bower Street, Bedford sits in Bedford, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bedford at 9.1 times median local earnings of £37,994 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Goldington Road£175,000 median
- Shakespeare Road£87,250 median
- Kimbolton Road£249,999 median
- Chaucer Road£98,000 median
- Ashburnham Road£110,000 median
- Warwick Avenue£103,000 median
- Castle Road£178,000 median
- Dudley Street£170,000 median
- Bromham Road£318,000 median
- Hurst Grove£91,975 median
- Deep Spinney£145,000 median
- Greenkeepers Road£229,950 median
- Goldington Avenue£105,000 median
- Linden Road£104,000 median
- De Parys Avenue£108,350 median
- Howbury Street£174,975 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 140 Bower Street6 sales
- 102 Bower Street6 sales
- 128 Bower Street6 sales
- 68 Bower Street5 sales
- 53 Bower Street5 sales
- 61 Bower Street5 sales
- 108 Bower Street5 sales
- 110 Bower Street5 sales
- 70 Bower Street5 sales
- 124 Bower Street5 sales
- 17 Bower Street5 sales
- 101 Bower Street5 sales
- 152 Bower Street5 sales
- 22 Bower Street4 sales
- 31 Bower Street4 sales
- 36 Bower Street4 sales
- 146 Bower Street4 sales
- 2 Bower Street4 sales
- 90 Bower Street4 sales
- 164 Bower Street4 sales
- 169 Bower Street4 sales
- 144 Bower Street4 sales
- 23 Bower Street4 sales
- 120 Bower Street4 sales
Back to Bedford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bower Street, Bedford?
The median price paid in Bower Street, Bedford across every sale on the register is £167,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Bower Street, Bedford?
321 sales are on record for Bower Street, Bedford, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bower Street, Bedford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bower Street, Bedford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £357,500, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Bower Street, Bedford?
£2,233 per square metre, from the 81 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Bower Street, Bedford house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.