Denton Drive, Bedford house prices are built from 276 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,998. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved +79.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +40.7%.
Median price paid
£125,998
Change in cash, 2006–2016
+79.4%
Change in real terms
+40.7%
HM Land Registry276 salesLatest sale 6 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Denton Drive, Bedford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Denton Drive, Bedford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2016. 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 | £93,950 | £208,613 |
| 2000s | 8 | £181,000 | £329,729 |
| 2010s | 4 | £231,500 | £326,415 |
The highest yearly median on record for Denton Drive, Bedford is £358,750 in 2016; the lowest is £76,000 in 1997. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £93,950 to £358,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £208,613, so the real change over the whole record is +140.1% — about +4.26% 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: +79.4% in cash against +40.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 6 Feb 2026 | Detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 80 | 1 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £86,846 | £88,734 |
| 19 | 27 Jun 2025 | Detached | £520,000 | £531,304 |
| 52 | 17 Jun 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 81 | 4 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 60 | 16 Feb 2024 | Detached | £455,000 | £478,769 |
| 88 | 20 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £295,000 | £318,736 |
| 9 | 17 Jul 2023 | Detached | £480,000 | £518,621 |
| 42 | 27 Apr 2023 | Detached | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| 55 | 29 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 67 | 11 Jul 2022 | Detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 51 | 18 Mar 2022 | Detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 8 | 8 Apr 2021 | Detached | £412,500 | £521,169 |
| 65 | 10 Mar 2021 | Detached | £405,000 | £511,694 |
| 52 | 25 Feb 2021 | Detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 37 | 12 Feb 2021 | Detached | £380,000 | £480,108 |
| 53 | 4 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| 83 | 9 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 44 | 6 Dec 2019 | Detached | £269,500 | £352,500 |
| 75 | 18 Oct 2019 | Detached | £307,000 | £401,549 |
| 56 | 6 Sep 2019 | Detached | £245,000 | £320,455 |
| 7 | 4 Jan 2019 | Detached | £415,000 | £542,811 |
| 25 | 26 Oct 2018 | Detached | £420,000 | £559,735 |
| 65 | 31 Aug 2018 | Detached | £387,000 | £515,756 |
| 83 | 8 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £299,995 | £399,804 |
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 Denton Drive, Bedford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 Denton Drive | £96,950 (1997) | £395,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 80 Denton Drive | £71,995 (1997) | £86,846 (2025) | +0.7% | -1.9% |
| 19 Denton Drive | £90,000 (1995) | £520,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 52 Denton Drive | £71,995 (1996) | £350,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 81 Denton Drive | £73,450 (1997) | £295,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 60 Denton Drive | £110,750 (1997) | £455,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 88 Denton Drive | £72,000 (1997) | £295,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 9 Denton Drive | £93,500 (1996) | £480,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 42 Denton Drive | £94,000 (1995) | £475,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 55 Denton Drive | £77,500 (1997) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 67 Denton Drive | £79,950 (1996) | £415,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
| 51 Denton Drive | £114,950 (1997) | £475,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Denton Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 195 | 70.7% | £150,000 | £71,995 – £520,000 |
| Terraced | 42 | 15.2% | £84,000 | £54,995 – £295,000 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 14.1% | £110,000 | £72,000 – £375,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Denton Drive, Bedford
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 276 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 | 276 | 100.0% | £125,998 |
| New build | 91 | 33.0% | £89,950 |
| Existing home | 185 | 67.0% | £185,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -51.4%. 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 Denton Drive, 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 £125,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.13% 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.
No street-level crime was published for MK43 in Jun 2026 by Bedfordshire. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Denton Drive, 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.
18 state and independent schools have a MK43 postcode: 13 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincroft Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 923 |
| Wootton Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 822 |
| Kimberley 16 – 19 Stem College | 16 plus | Free schools 16 to 19 | 749 |
| Wootton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 731 |
| Holywell School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 668 |
| Marston Moreteyne VC School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 624 |
| Marston Vale Middle School | Middle deemed secondary | Academy converter | 563 |
| Cranfield Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 511 |
| Bromham CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 496 |
| Oakley Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 210 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kempston Hardwick Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Stewartby Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Bedford Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Bedford St Johns Rail Station | Rail | 6.6 km |
Section 09
How Denton Drive, Bedford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Denton Drive, Bedford sits below that national figure — -20.0%.
Within Bedford the street ranks 2204 of 2640 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-31.9%).
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 £54,995 to £520,000. 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.
Denton Drive, 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
- High Street£200,000 median
- Bedford Road£210,000 median
- Station Road£204,000 median
- Church Lane£180,000 median
- Lincroft£168,750 median
- Park Road£189,995 median
- Lower Shelton Road£199,000 median
- Gold Furlong£290,000 median
- The Grove£191,000 median
- The Green£187,998 median
- Arundel Road£122,500 median
- St Marys Close£142,000 median
- School Lane£250,000 median
- Primrose Close£150,000 median
- Quenby Way£170,000 median
- Partridge Piece£168,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 55 Denton Drive7 sales
- 56 Denton Drive6 sales
- 73 Denton Drive6 sales
- 1 Denton Drive6 sales
- 44 Denton Drive5 sales
- 89 Denton Drive5 sales
- 19 Denton Drive4 sales
- 52 Denton Drive4 sales
- 81 Denton Drive4 sales
- 60 Denton Drive4 sales
- 8 Denton Drive4 sales
- 65 Denton Drive4 sales
- 37 Denton Drive4 sales
- 83 Denton Drive4 sales
- 75 Denton Drive4 sales
- 63 Denton Drive4 sales
- 27 Denton Drive4 sales
- 29 Denton Drive4 sales
- 30 Denton Drive4 sales
- 71 Denton Drive4 sales
- 48 Denton Drive4 sales
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- 77 Denton Drive4 sales
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Back to Bedford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Denton Drive, Bedford?
The median price paid in Denton Drive, Bedford across every sale on the register is £125,998. 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 Denton Drive, Bedford?
276 sales are on record for Denton Drive, Bedford, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Denton Drive, Bedford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +79.4% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +40.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Denton Drive, Bedford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £358,750, set in 2016. 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 Denton Drive, 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 6 Feb 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, “Denton Drive, 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.