Brook Lane, Bedford house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £179,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +19.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.5%.
Median price paid
£179,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+19.4%
Change in real terms
-13.5%
HM Land Registry178 salesLatest sale 18 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Brook Lane, Bedford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Brook Lane, 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 | £74,000 | £164,315 |
| 2000s | 9 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 5 | £212,500 | £299,625 |
| 2020s | 3 | £286,500 | £292,728 |
The highest yearly median on record for Brook Lane, Bedford is £625,000 in 2024; the lowest is £59,975 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £74,000 to £286,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £164,315, so the real change over the whole record is +78.2% — about +1.94% 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: +19.4% in cash against -13.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 18 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 17 | 2 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 66 | 24 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 15 | 23 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| The Hay Loft | 13 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £595,000 | £607,935 |
| 18 | 7 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £303,000 | £309,587 |
| 30 | 12 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £357,500 | £376,175 |
| The Peacocks Roost | 30 Oct 2024 | Detached | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 1 | 3 Sep 2024 | Detached | £1,225,000 | £1,288,993 |
| 24 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 12 | 30 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £720,000 | £757,612 |
| 6 | 15 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £306,000 | £330,621 |
| 3 | 6 Jul 2023 | Detached | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| Jackdaws, 17 | 26 Apr 2023 | Detached | £2,200,000 | £2,377,011 |
| The Old Forge | 20 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £630,000 | £680,690 |
| 10 | 28 Oct 2022 | Detached | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 7 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £342,000 | £396,237 |
| 26 | 23 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| 40 | 7 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £248,000 | £287,329 |
| 20 | 27 May 2022 | Terraced | £220,000 | £254,889 |
| 17 | 11 Feb 2022 | Detached | £925,000 | £1,071,693 |
| 28 | 28 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 24 | 21 Dec 2021 | Detached | £438,000 | £553,387 |
| 6 | 1 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 20 | 1 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
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 Brook Lane, Bedford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Brook Lane | £101,000 (2000) | £255,000 (2025) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
| 17 Brook Lane | £355,000 (2001) | £225,000 (2025) | -1.9% | -4.5% |
| 15 Brook Lane | £95,000 (1999) | £340,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| THE HAY LOFT Brook Lane | £362,500 (2005) | £595,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 18 Brook Lane | £68,500 (1998) | £303,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 30 Brook Lane | £98,000 (1997) | £357,500 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| THE PEACOCKS ROOST Brook Lane | £380,000 (2004) | £625,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 24 Brook Lane | £53,500 (1995) | £250,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 12 Brook Lane | £59,950 (1996) | £720,000 (2024) | +9.3% | +6.5% |
| 6 Brook Lane | £40,000 (1996) | £306,000 (2023) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| 3 Brook Lane | £297,000 (1997) | £350,000 (2023) | +0.6% | -1.9% |
| THE OLD FORGE Brook Lane | £295,000 (2005) | £630,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Brook Lane, 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 | 69 | 38.8% | £136,000 | £24,500 – £630,000 |
| Detached | 61 | 34.3% | £255,000 | £46,000 – £2,200,000 |
| Semi-detached | 48 | 27.0% | £179,000 | £59,995 – £720,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Brook Lane, Bedford
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 178 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 178 | 100.0% | £179,500 |
| New build | 4 | 2.2% | £328,750 |
| Existing home | 174 | 97.8% | £178,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +84.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 5 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 Brook Lane, 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 £179,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.82% 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 MK41, 219 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 61 violent, 3 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 37 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 185,225 residents the 2021 census counted in Bedford, that is 1.18 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 Brook Lane, 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.
15 state and independent schools have a MK41 postcode: 11 primary, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Rutherford School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,150 |
| Goldington Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 958 |
| St Thomas More Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 893 |
| Castle Newnham School | Secondary | Academy converter | 744 |
| Goldington Green Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 576 |
| Putnoe Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 494 |
| Scott Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Community school | 469 |
| Livingstone Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 457 |
| Hazeldene School | Primary | Foundation school | 443 |
| The Hills Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 442 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Bedford St Johns Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Kempston Hardwick Rail Station | Rail | 7.8 km |
| Stewartby Rail Station | Rail | 10.6 km |
Section 09
How Brook Lane, Bedford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Brook Lane, Bedford sits above that national figure — +14.0%.
Within Bedford the street ranks 1621 of 2640 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-3.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £24,500 to £2,200,000. 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.
Brook Lane, 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
- George Street£184,950 median
- Poppyfields£68,500 median
- Foster Hill Road£149,500 median
- Gladstone Street£148,750 median
- Hartington Street£134,000 median
- Clapham Road£73,500 median
- Wendover Drive£180,250 median
- Queens Drive£153,000 median
- Highbury Grove£162,500 median
- Putnoe Lane£360,000 median
- Thor Drive£199,995 median
- Aylesbury Road£158,000 median
- Putnoe Street£212,000 median
- Stanley Street£144,000 median
- Goldington Green£106,250 median
- Honeysuckle Way£86,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 6 Brook Lane10 sales
- 24 Brook Lane8 sales
- 21 Brook Lane8 sales
- 9 Brook Lane8 sales
- 2 Brook Lane8 sales
- 13 Brook Lane7 sales
- 15 Brook Lane7 sales
- 23 Brook Lane7 sales
- 12 Brook Lane6 sales
- 18 Brook Lane5 sales
- 30 Brook Lane5 sales
- 7 Brook Lane5 sales
- 17 Brook Lane4 sales
- 3 Brook Lane4 sales
- 36 Brook Lane4 sales
- 25 Brook Lane4 sales
- 46 – 48 Brook Lane4 sales
- 27 Brook Lane4 sales
- 22 Brook Lane4 sales
- 10 Brook Lane3 sales
- 26 Brook Lane3 sales
- 40 Brook Lane3 sales
- 20 Brook Lane3 sales
- 8 Brook Lane3 sales
Back to Bedford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Brook Lane, Bedford?
The median price paid in Brook Lane, Bedford across every sale on the register is £179,500. 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 Brook Lane, Bedford?
178 sales are on record for Brook Lane, Bedford, the most recent completing on 18 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Brook Lane, Bedford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +19.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Brook Lane, Bedford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £625,000, 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 Brook Lane, Bedford?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 18 Dec 2025. 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, “Brook Lane, 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.