Hillgrounds Road, Bedford house prices are built from 171 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £125,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +27.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.6%.
Median price paid
£125,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+27.5%
Change in real terms
-7.6%
HM Land Registry171 salesLatest sale 22 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Hillgrounds Road, Bedford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Hillgrounds Road, 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 | £48,500 | £107,693 |
| 2000s | 7 | £115,000 | £209,496 |
| 2010s | 2 | £151,500 | £213,615 |
| 2020s | 3 | £255,000 | £260,543 |
The highest yearly median on record for Hillgrounds Road, Bedford is £325,000 in 2025; the lowest is £44,125 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £44,125 to £325,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,978, so the real change over the whole record is +238.9% — about +4.15% 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: +27.5% in cash against -7.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | 22 Jan 2026 | Detached | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 57 | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £258,000 | £263,609 |
| 247 | 4 Dec 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 275 | 27 Nov 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 83 | 21 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 295 | 13 Mar 2025 | Detached | £600,000 | £613,043 |
| 221 | 6 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £223,000 | £227,848 |
| 77 | 7 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 2 Jacey Court, 198 | 16 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £154,679 |
| 23 | 31 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 49 | 20 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 99 | 26 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £272,000 | £286,209 |
| 1 Jacey Court, 198 | 23 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £150,470 |
| 129 | 7 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 195 | 10 Feb 2023 | Detached | £380,000 | £410,575 |
| 40 | 28 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 25 | 1 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| 55 | 17 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 18 | 28 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £262,000 | £303,550 |
| 253 | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £333,600 | £421,484 |
| 37 | 10 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 283 | 24 Jun 2021 | Detached | £500,000 | £631,720 |
| 50 | 21 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 99 | 4 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 287 | 23 Feb 2021 | Detached | £505,000 | £638,038 |
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 Hillgrounds Road, Bedford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 Hillgrounds Road | £90,000 (1997) | £435,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 57 Hillgrounds Road | £54,000 (1998) | £258,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 247 Hillgrounds Road | £110,000 (2000) | £380,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 275 Hillgrounds Road | £395,000 (2019) | £550,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +1.4% |
| 295 Hillgrounds Road | £125,000 (1995) | £600,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 77 Hillgrounds Road | £59,500 (1998) | £290,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 2 JACEY COURT, 198 Hillgrounds Road | £24,500 (1997) | £147,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 23 Hillgrounds Road | £45,000 (1996) | £235,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 49 Hillgrounds Road | £43,500 (1997) | £225,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 99 Hillgrounds Road | £44,500 (1997) | £272,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 1 JACEY COURT, 198 Hillgrounds Road | £39,000 (2001) | £143,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 129 Hillgrounds Road | £130,000 (2003) | £315,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hillgrounds Road, 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 | 71 | 41.5% | £115,000 | £41,000 – £315,000 |
| Detached | 48 | 28.1% | £193,000 | £59,000 – £600,000 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 16.4% | £137,000 | £44,500 – £290,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 24 | 14.0% | £52,500 | £24,500 – £147,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Hillgrounds Road, Bedford
24 of the sales on record are leasehold and 147 freehold — 14.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £53,750 and the median freehold sale £137,995 — a gap of +156.7%. 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 | 24 | 14.0% | £53,750 |
| Freehold | 147 | 86.0% | £137,995 |
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 Hillgrounds Road, 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 £125,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.22% 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 MK42, 329 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 134 violent, 9 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.
Against the 185,225 residents the 2021 census counted in Bedford, that is 1.78 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 Hillgrounds Road, 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.
20 state and independent schools have a MK42 postcode: 12 primary, 5 secondary, 2 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,480 |
| Wixams Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 903 |
| King's Oak Primary School | Primary | Community school | 826 |
| Kempston Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 773 |
| Daubeney Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 576 |
| Wixams Tree Primary Academy | Primary | Free schools | 559 |
| Bedford Free School | Secondary | Free schools | 536 |
| Shackleton Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 487 |
| Shortstown Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 479 |
| Kempston Rural Primary School | Primary | Community school | 439 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford St Johns Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Bedford Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Kempston Hardwick Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Stewartby Rail Station | Rail | 6.2 km |
Section 09
How Hillgrounds Road, Bedford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hillgrounds Road, Bedford sits below that national figure — -20.6%.
Within Bedford the street ranks 2207 of 2640 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-32.4%).
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 £600,000. 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.
Hillgrounds Road, 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
- Redwood Grove£77,500 median
- Palgrave Road£148,500 median
- Cardington Road£85,000 median
- Alburgh Close£78,000 median
- Spring Road£140,000 median
- Brooklands Avenue£249,950 median
- Margetts Road£125,000 median
- Wilkinson Road£229,995 median
- Harrowden Road£140,000 median
- London Road£121,500 median
- Dorsey Drive£114,000 median
- Elstow Road£167,500 median
- Gillespie Close£120,000 median
- Chantry Avenue£148,500 median
- Hilton Close£219,248 median
- Haynes Road£154,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 251 Hillgrounds Road6 sales
- 3, JACEY COURT, 198 Hillgrounds Road6 sales
- 2, JACEY COURT, 198 Hillgrounds Road5 sales
- 39 Hillgrounds Road5 sales
- 57 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 247 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 77 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 99 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 25 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 26 Hillgrounds Road4 sales
- 23 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 1, JACEY COURT, 198 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 50 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 285 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 249 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 111 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 13 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 36 Hillgrounds Road3 sales
- 275 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
- 295 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
- 49 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
- 129 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
- 195 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
- 40 Hillgrounds Road2 sales
Back to Bedford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Hillgrounds Road, Bedford?
The median price paid in Hillgrounds Road, Bedford across every sale on the register is £125,000. 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 Hillgrounds Road, Bedford?
171 sales are on record for Hillgrounds Road, Bedford, the most recent completing on 22 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Hillgrounds Road, Bedford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +27.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Hillgrounds Road, Bedford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £325,000, set in 2025. 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 Hillgrounds Road, 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 22 Jan 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, “Hillgrounds Road, 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.