Milton Keynes house prices are built from 150,712 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £169,995. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +34.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.0%.
Median price paid
£169,995
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+34.0%
Change in real terms
-4.0%
Median per m²
£3,061
HM Land Registry150,712 sales2,004 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Milton Keynes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Milton Keynes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | £58,000 | £128,787 |
| 2000s | 10 | £155,000 | £282,364 |
| 2010s | 10 | £212,725 | £299,942 |
| 2020s | 7 | £352,000 | £359,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Milton Keynes is £360,000 in 2022; the lowest is £52,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £52,500 to £345,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,575, so the real change over the whole record is +195.9% — about +3.56% 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: +34.0% in cash against -4.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Darwin Close | 29 Jun 2026 | Detached | £640,000 | £640,000 |
| 9 Burnmoor Close | 26 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 46 Wolverton Road | 25 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £417,000 | £417,000 |
| 15 Artemis Grove | 25 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 9 Kinnear Close | 24 Jun 2026 | Detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 87 Selkirk Drive | 24 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £470,000 | £470,000 |
| 26 Fortescue Drive | 23 Jun 2026 | Detached | £595,000 | £595,000 |
| 15 Minerva Gardens | 22 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £268,000 | £268,000 |
| 1 Friesland Avenue | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 23 Orbison Court | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £538,000 | £538,000 |
| 15 Ireland Close | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £537,500 | £537,500 |
| 71 Watercress Way | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| 51 Syward Row | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 33 Chicksands Avenue | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 19 Colchester Court | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 204 Oldbrook Boulevard | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 19 George Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 34 Vicarage Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £366,250 | £366,250 |
| 7 Freeman Close | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 17 Hale Avenue | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 11 Marsange Drive | 17 Jun 2026 | Detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 6 Hertford Place | 17 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 5 Balsam Close | 16 Jun 2026 | Detached | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| 18 Milfoil Avenue | 16 Jun 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 16 Aspley Hill | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £470,000 | £470,000 |
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 Milton Keynes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Darwin Close | £275,000 (2003) | £640,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 9 Burnmoor Close | £99,000 (2005) | £165,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 46 Wolverton Road | £63,000 (1996) | £417,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 15 Artemis Grove | £235,996 (2021) | £270,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -2.0% |
| 87 Selkirk Drive | £231,500 (2010) | £470,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
| 9 Kinnear Close | £270,000 (2013) | £515,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 26 Fortescue Drive | £475,000 (2017) | £595,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -0.9% |
| 15 Minerva Gardens | £59,000 (1999) | £268,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 23 Orbison Court | £99,950 (1997) | £538,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 15 Ireland Close | £91,500 (1995) | £537,500 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 19 Colchester Court | £152,500 (2003) | £355,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 204 Oldbrook Boulevard | £56,000 (1996) | £335,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Milton Keynes 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 | 47,071 | 31.2% | £272,500 | £6,550 – £11,075,190 |
| Semi-detached | 41,306 | 27.4% | £161,000 | £2,000 – £1,600,000 |
| Terraced | 39,790 | 26.4% | £136,000 | £500 – £1,700,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 22,545 | 15.0% | £120,000 | £4,000 – £875,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Milton Keynes
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 37,740 certificates cover Milton Keynes, and their median floor area is 78 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 78 m² | about 840 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 58 m² | about 624 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 102 m² | about 1,098 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.3% | 9,922 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 6.1% | 2,306 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Milton Keynes
29,313 of the sales on record are leasehold and 121,399 freehold — 19.4% 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 £100,000 and the median freehold sale £190,000 — a gap of +90.0%. 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 | 29,313 | 19.4% | £100,000 |
| Freehold | 121,399 | 80.6% | £190,000 |
| New build | 29,857 | 19.8% | £225,000 |
| Existing home | 120,855 | 80.2% | £158,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +42.4%. 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 8,368 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 Milton Keynes
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £169,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.42% 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 MK3, 192 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 70 violent, 10 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.35 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 Milton Keynes
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a MK3 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lord Grey Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,446 |
| Newton Leys Primary School | Primary | Community school | 643 |
| Rickley Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 447 |
| Chestnuts Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 400 |
| Abbeys Primary School | Primary | Community school | 298 |
| Holne Chase Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 204 |
| St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 201 |
| Barleyhurst Park Primary | Primary | Community school | 198 |
| Cold Harbour Church of England School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bletchley Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Fenny Stratford Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Bow Brickhill Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Milton Keynes Central Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How Milton Keynes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Milton Keynes sits above that national figure — +7.9%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,061 per square metre, across 2,004 of the 150,712 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 £500 to £11,075,190. 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.
Milton Keynes sits in Buckinghamshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 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 in Milton Keynes
- High Street685 sales
- Newport Road671 sales
- Church Street498 sales
- Windsor Street491 sales
- Aylesbury Street430 sales
- Witan Gate420 sales
- Merrivale Mews398 sales
- Whaddon Way391 sales
- Wolverton Road367 sales
- Millward Drive364 sales
- Western Road350 sales
- Fen Street345 sales
- Blanchland Circle336 sales
- Station Road326 sales
- London Road315 sales
- Stratford Road315 sales
- Harlow Crescent301 sales
- Pettingrew Close300 sales
- Cicero Crescent293 sales
- Buckingham Road288 sales
- Arncliffe Drive287 sales
- Cambridge Street287 sales
- Downland279 sales
- Church Road274 sales
- Glebe Road270 sales
- Favell Drive266 sales
- Hunter Drive265 sales
- Shenley Road265 sales
- Gaddesden Crescent262 sales
- Lynmouth Crescent262 sales
- Kirkstall Place260 sales
- Bradwell Road258 sales
- Jersey Road251 sales
- Japonica Lane248 sales
- Victoria Street246 sales
- Mithras Gardens243 sales
- North Row241 sales
- Silbury Boulevard240 sales
- South Row239 sales
- Deacon Place238 sales
- Isaacson Drive238 sales
- Pomander Crescent237 sales
- Clarence Road234 sales
- Newton Road234 sales
- Portland Drive234 sales
- Rosemullion Avenue234 sales
- Hainault Avenue232 sales
- Crowborough Lane230 sales
- Studley Knapp227 sales
- Clay Hill224 sales
- Countess Way223 sales
- Downs Barn Boulevard218 sales
- Cruickshank Grove215 sales
- Pickering Drive215 sales
- Denmead214 sales
- Whalley Drive214 sales
- Grace Avenue211 sales
- Bantock Close210 sales
- Oriel Close207 sales
- Braford Gardens206 sales
Postcode districts covering Milton Keynes
- MK4£177,000 median
- MK3£180,000 median
- MK10£230,000 median
- MK17£319,995 median
- MK7£127,000 median
- MK6£111,950 median
- MK14£145,000 median
- MK5£184,995 median
- MK13£133,950 median
- MK8£170,000 median
- MK19£219,900 median
- MK2£135,000 median
- MK12£150,000 median
- MK11£208,000 median
- MK15£168,248 median
- MK9£157,500 median
- MK1£152,000 median
- LU7£195,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Milton Keynes?
The median price paid in Milton Keynes across every sale on the register is £169,995. 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 Milton Keynes?
150,712 sales are on record for Milton Keynes, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Milton Keynes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +34.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Milton Keynes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £360,000, set in 2022. 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 Milton Keynes?
£3,061 per square metre, from the 2,004 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 29 Jun 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, “Milton Keynes 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.