Shakespeare Road, Bedford house prices

Shakespeare Road, Bedford house prices are built from 446 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £87,250. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved 0.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -26.6%.

HM Land Registry446 sales125 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Sep 2025

The chart tracks the median Shakespeare Road, Bedford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Shakespeare Road, Bedford is £201,250 in 2018; the lowest is £31,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £36,250 to £140,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £80,492, so the real change over the whole record is +83.0% — about +2.11% 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: 0.0% in cash against -26.6% 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.

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.

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 Shakespeare Road, Bedford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shakespeare Road, Bedford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

356 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 79.8% 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 £74,425 and the median freehold sale £184,998 — a gap of +148.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -24.7%. 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 26 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.

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.

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 £87,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.08% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shakespeare Road, Bedford sits below that national figure — -44.6%.

Within Bedford the street ranks 2547 of 2640 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-52.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,667 per square metre, across 125 of the 446 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 £16,000 to £1,025,000. 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.

Shakespeare 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.

Streets nearby

• Goldington Road£175,000 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
• Bower Street£167,000 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

• 35 Shakespeare Road6 sales
• 81 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• 79A Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT 3, REGENTS COURT, 44 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• 6, STRATFORD COURT Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT 10, 47 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• 7, HILBRE GRANGE Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT 17, REGENTS COURT, 44 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT 7, CYMBELINE COURT, 1 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• 4, STRATFORD COURT Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT F, 55 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• FLAT 4, CYMBELINE COURT, 1 Shakespeare Road5 sales
• 16, BEAUMONT HOUSE, 69 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• 6, HILBRE GRANGE Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 12, OTHELLO COURT, 50 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 4, 53 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 6, 53 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• 25, HILBRE GRANGE Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 20, REGENTS COURT, 44 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• 3D Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 7, OTHELLO COURT, 50 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT 9, OTHELLO COURT, 50 Shakespeare Road4 sales
• 18, HILBRE GRANGE Shakespeare Road4 sales
• FLAT C, 55 Shakespeare Road4 sales

Back to Bedford house prices.

What is the average house price in Shakespeare Road, Bedford?

The median price paid in Shakespeare Road, Bedford across every sale on the register is £87,250. 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 Shakespeare Road, Bedford?

446 sales are on record for Shakespeare Road, Bedford, the most recent completing on 30 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Shakespeare Road, Bedford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose 0.0% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -26.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Shakespeare Road, Bedford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £201,250, set in 2018. 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 Shakespeare Road, Bedford?

£1,667 per square metre, from the 125 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 30 Sep 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, “Shakespeare 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.