School Lane, Bedford house prices are built from 159 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +93.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +40.2%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+93.4%
Change in real terms
+40.2%
HM Land Registry159 salesLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How School Lane, Bedford prices moved
The chart tracks the median School Lane, Bedford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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 | 2 | £85,495 | £189,839 |
| 2000s | 7 | £196,500 | £357,965 |
| 2010s | 5 | £390,000 | £549,900 |
| 2020s | 2 | £360,000 | £367,826 |
The highest yearly median on record for School Lane, Bedford is £690,000 in 2025; the lowest is £85,495 in 1999. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £87,248 to £690,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £184,991, so the real change over the whole record is +281.1% — about +4.89% 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: +93.4% in cash against +40.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 9 | 27 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| Water Meadows | 12 Nov 2025 | Detached | £806,500 | £824,033 |
| Manor Croft | 5 Sep 2025 | Detached | £670,000 | £684,565 |
| Manor Farm House | 4 Apr 2025 | Detached | £740,000 | £756,087 |
| 1a | 14 Feb 2025 | Detached | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| 117 | 7 Feb 2025 | Detached | £710,000 | £725,435 |
| 10 | 20 Mar 2024 | Detached | £950,000 | £999,627 |
| 3a | 29 Nov 2023 | Detached | £545,000 | £588,851 |
| 5 | 27 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £109,500 | £118,310 |
| 10 | 2 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 23 | 23 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| 21 | 16 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £331,000 | £383,492 |
| 7 | 25 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £440,263 |
| The Willows | 20 Jun 2022 | Detached | £800,000 | £926,869 |
| 1 | 25 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £428,677 |
| Manor Farm Barn | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| 4 | 25 May 2021 | Detached | £591,000 | £746,694 |
| 2 | 25 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £302,500 | £382,191 |
| 18 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 35 | 19 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| 15a | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £760,000 | £984,022 |
| 9 | 14 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £349,587 |
| 31 | 15 Jul 2020 | Detached | £390,000 | £504,959 |
| 21 | 16 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £244,000 | £319,147 |
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 School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 School Lane | £74,950 (1997) | £375,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 9 School Lane | £85,995 (1999) | £360,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| MANOR CROFT School Lane | £334,500 (2005) | £670,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 1A School Lane | £250,000 (2015) | £345,000 (2025) | +3.3% | 0.0% |
| 10 School Lane | £78,995 (1999) | £950,000 (2024) | +10.5% | +7.6% |
| 3A School Lane | £375,000 (2016) | £545,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +1.7% |
| 5 School Lane | £127,950 (1997) | £109,500 (2023) | -0.6% | -3.1% |
| 23 School Lane | £250,000 (2012) | £415,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 21 School Lane | £140,000 (2003) | £331,000 (2022) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 7 School Lane | £88,995 (1999) | £380,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +3.9% |
| THE WILLOWS School Lane | £700,000 (2017) | £800,000 (2022) | +2.7% | -0.5% |
| 1 School Lane | £121,950 (1997) | £370,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. School 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 90 | 56.6% | £337,500 | £74,950 – £1,050,000 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 24.5% | £173,500 | £27,500 – £390,000 |
| Terraced | 27 | 17.0% | £178,500 | £42,000 – £475,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 1.9% | £191,000 | £125,000 – £265,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in School Lane, Bedford
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 1.3% 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 £75,750 and the median freehold sale £258,500 — a gap of +241.3%. 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 | 2 | 1.3% | £75,750 |
| Freehold | 157 | 98.7% | £258,500 |
| New build | 25 | 15.7% | £140,000 |
| Existing home | 134 | 84.3% | £266,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -47.5%. 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 3 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 School 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 £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.61% 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 School 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.
18 state and independent schools have a MK43 postcode: 13 primary, 2 secondary, 2 middle deemed 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 School Lane, Bedford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. School Lane, Bedford sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Bedford the street ranks 921 of 2640 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £185,000 (+35.1%).
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 £27,500 to £1,050,000. 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.
School 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
- 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
- Denton Drive£125,998 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
- Primrose Close£150,000 median
- Quenby Way£170,000 median
- Partridge Piece£168,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 4 School Lane9 sales
- 2 School Lane9 sales
- 10 School Lane7 sales
- 5 School Lane7 sales
- 21 School Lane7 sales
- 1 School Lane7 sales
- 3 School Lane7 sales
- 7 School Lane5 sales
- 18 School Lane5 sales
- 35 School Lane4 sales
- 17 School Lane4 sales
- 6 School Lane4 sales
- 8 School Lane4 sales
- 2A School Lane4 sales
- CORNER VIEW School Lane4 sales
- 9 School Lane3 sales
- 31 School Lane3 sales
- 33 School Lane3 sales
- 11 School Lane3 sales
- MANOR FARM BUNGALOW School Lane3 sales
- 15 School Lane3 sales
- 56 School Lane3 sales
- MANOR CROFT School Lane2 sales
- 1A School Lane2 sales
Back to Bedford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in School Lane, Bedford?
The median price paid in School Lane, Bedford across every sale on the register is £250,000. 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 School Lane, Bedford?
159 sales are on record for School Lane, Bedford, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have School Lane, Bedford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +93.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +40.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were School Lane, Bedford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £690,000, 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 School 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 1 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, “School 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.