Downland, Milton Keynes house prices are built from 279 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £90,000. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved +33.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +5.0%.
Median price paid
£90,000
Change in cash, 2006–2016
+33.9%
Change in real terms
+5.0%
HM Land Registry279 salesLatest sale 20 May 2026
Section 01
How Downland, Milton Keynes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downland, Milton Keynes 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 | £30,500 | £67,724 |
| 2000s | 8 | £107,000 | £194,922 |
| 2010s | 4 | £135,750 | £191,408 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downland, Milton Keynes is £172,500 in 2015; the lowest is £30,000 in 1996. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £30,495 to £154,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £67,713, so the real change over the whole record is +217.5% — about +5.66% 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: +33.9% in cash against +5.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 20 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 23 | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 41 | 13 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 18 | 17 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 126 | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 112 | 16 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £167,500 | £171,141 |
| 50 | 11 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £182,500 | £186,467 |
| 9 | 26 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 22 | 4 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 97 | 18 Dec 2023 | Detached | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 43 | 17 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £282,000 | £304,690 |
| 89a | 24 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £293,000 | £316,575 |
| 77 | 11 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £109,000 | £126,286 |
| 126 | 5 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 142 | 23 Feb 2022 | Detached | £130,000 | £150,616 |
| 108 | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £174,950 | £202,695 |
| 88 | 8 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £126,800 | £160,204 |
| 41 | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| 49 | 30 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £225,000 | £284,274 |
| 5 | 30 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| 97 | 4 Sep 2020 | Detached | £122,750 | £158,933 |
| 89a | 26 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £240,000 | £310,744 |
| 128 | 6 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £129,000 | £167,025 |
| 73 | 5 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £215,000 | £281,215 |
| 44 | 9 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £162,500 | £212,546 |
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 Downland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 Downland | £42,500 (1999) | £170,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 23 Downland | £44,000 (1999) | £210,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 41 Downland | £45,250 (1997) | £265,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 18 Downland | £51,000 (1998) | £265,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 126 Downland | £92,000 (2004) | £140,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 112 Downland | £31,000 (1995) | £167,500 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 50 Downland | £100,000 (2005) | £182,500 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 9 Downland | £68,000 (2000) | £225,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 22 Downland | £95,000 (2002) | £225,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 97 Downland | £150,000 (2016) | £425,000 (2023) | +16.0% | +11.9% |
| 43 Downland | £125,000 (2013) | £282,000 (2023) | +8.5% | +5.3% |
| 89A Downland | £186,000 (2008) | £293,000 (2023) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 122 | 43.7% | £90,850 | £23,750 – £293,000 |
| Semi-detached | 71 | 25.4% | £100,000 | £18,000 – £242,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 60 | 21.5% | £64,995 | £15,250 – £174,950 |
| Detached | 26 | 9.3% | £109,000 | £25,000 – £425,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downland, Milton Keynes
72 of the sales on record are leasehold and 207 freehold — 25.8% 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 £75,500 and the median freehold sale £99,000 — a gap of +31.1%. 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 | 72 | 25.8% | £75,500 |
| Freehold | 207 | 74.2% | £99,000 |
A further 16 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 Downland, Milton Keynes
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Milton Keynes, 61.7% of 143,446 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,947 | 1.4% |
| B | 30,877 | 21.5% |
| C | 55,637 | 38.8% |
| D | 43,510 | 30.3% |
| E | 9,458 | 6.6% |
| F | 1,625 | 1.1% |
| G | 392 | 0.3% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Milton Keynes at £1,340 a month as of Jun 2026 — £974 for a one-bedroom home and £1,447 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £90,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.87% 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 MK8, 154 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 52 violent, 8 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 287,060 residents the 2021 census counted in Milton Keynes, that is 0.54 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 Downland, Milton Keynes
The 2021 census counted 287,060 residents in Milton Keynes across 113,103 households. 60.9% of those households own their home and 39.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a MK8 postcode: 6 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watling Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 1,767 |
| The Hazeley Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,594 |
| Whitehouse Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 672 |
| Two Mile Ash School | Primary | Academy converter | 649 |
| Watling Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 327 |
| Christ the Sower Ecumenical Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 212 |
| Holmwood School | Primary | Academy converter | 201 |
| Ashbrook School | Primary | Academy converter | 169 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Wolverton Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Bletchley Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
| Fenny Stratford Rail Station | Rail | 7.3 km |
Section 09
How Downland, Milton Keynes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downland, Milton Keynes sits below that national figure — -42.9%.
Within Milton Keynes the street ranks 3001 of 3349 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,995 (-47.1%).
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 £15,250 to £425,000. 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.
Downland, Milton Keynes sits in Milton Keynes, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Milton Keynes at 8.4 times median local earnings of £41,516 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
- Clay Hill£90,000 median
- Cruickshank Grove£155,000 median
- Denmead£72,750 median
- Barrosa Way£266,000 median
- The High Street£66,000 median
- Westwood Close£135,250 median
- Garwood Crescent£272,950 median
- Kensington Drive£79,998 median
- Shorham Rise£187,000 median
- Redding Grove£100,000 median
- Longhorn Drive£372,500 median
- Chaplin Grove£80,000 median
- Kercroft£50,000 median
- Chevalier Grove£169,000 median
- Hepleswell£91,000 median
- Ashford Crescent£232,575 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 65 Downland6 sales
- 112 Downland5 sales
- 77 Downland5 sales
- 49 Downland5 sales
- 45 Downland5 sales
- 28 Downland5 sales
- 29 Downland5 sales
- 31 Downland5 sales
- 92 Downland5 sales
- 41 Downland4 sales
- 18 Downland4 sales
- 43 Downland4 sales
- 55 Downland4 sales
- 60 Downland4 sales
- 25 Downland4 sales
- 68 Downland4 sales
- 4 Downland4 sales
- 110 Downland4 sales
- 23 Downland3 sales
- 126 Downland3 sales
- 9 Downland3 sales
- 97 Downland3 sales
- 89A Downland3 sales
- 5 Downland3 sales
Back to Milton Keynes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downland, Milton Keynes?
The median price paid in Downland, Milton Keynes across every sale on the register is £90,000. 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 Downland, Milton Keynes?
279 sales are on record for Downland, Milton Keynes, the most recent completing on 20 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downland, Milton Keynes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.9% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +5.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downland, Milton Keynes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £172,500, set in 2015. 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 Downland, Milton Keynes?
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 20 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, “Downland, 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.