That is the middle of 389 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A third of Ampthill’s sales are semi-detached houses
389 homes sold in three years: 111 detached houses, 120 semi-detached houses, 120 terraced houses and 38 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£595K
median sale · 111 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£490K–£700K
Last 12 months
£597K30 sold
Semi-detached houses£430K
median sale · 120 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£365K–£525K
Last 12 months
£445K30 sold
Terraced houses£353K
median sale · 120 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£286K–£420K
Last 12 months
£390K41 sold
Flats and maisonettes£243K
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£305K
Last 12 months
£235K16 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 31% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses31%
Flats and maisonettes10%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Ampthill’s homes sold for between £320K and £550K
One sale in ten was under £245K and one in ten over £675K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £420,000, sits in the £400–500K band
389 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £71,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in the last 12 months (£395,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
117 sales in the last 12 months, against 256 in 1998, the busiest year, and 108 in 2008. Sales fell by 32% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 27% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ampthill costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Ampthill, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£106K
£167K
£298K
£350K
£415K
£514K
£597K
Semi-detached houses
£57K
£104K
£205K
£239K
£383K
£375K
£445K
Terraced houses
£54K
£88K
£165K
£185K
£261K
£321K
£390K
Flats and maisonettes
£40K
£73K
£179K
£155K
£208K
£243K
£235K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 42% in 2018
775 new homes have been sold in Ampthill since 1995; the share peaked at 42% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.6% sold leasehold in Ampthill. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Poppy Drive is Ampthill’s busiest street, with 23 sales in three years
32 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 6 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Poppy Drive
MK45
23
£459,995
Mixed
2
Fallowfield
MK45
13
£485,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Dunstable Street
MK45
12
£320,000
Mixed
4
Oliver Street
MK45
12
£315,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Willow Way
MK45
11
£345,000
Mixed
6
Woburn Street
MK45
10
£375,000
Mixed
7
Tavistock Avenue
MK45
9
£525,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Park Hill
MK45
9
£450,000
Mixed
9
Wingate Drive
MK45
9
£395,000
Mixed
10
Preston Close
MK45
9
£198,000
Mostly flats
11
Station Road
MK45
8
£592,500
Mixed
12
Chandos Road
MK45
8
£507,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Wagstaff Way
MK45
8
£443,750
Mixed
14
Colston Rise
MK45
8
£412,500
Mixed
15
Arthur Street
MK45
8
£399,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Flitwick Road: £1,090,500
Ampthill median£420K
Flitwick Road£1.1M
Swaffield Close£700K
Station Road£593K
Ashburnham Road£563K
Tavistock Avenue£525K
Cheapest streets
Katherines Court: £190,000
Ampthill median£420K
Katherines Court£190K
Preston Close£198K
Ailesbury Road£275K
Neotsbury Road£295K
Hawthorn Close£304K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Bedfordshire
Ampthill is the 7th most expensive of 33 towns in Bedfordshire
Ampthill is in the middle of Bedfordshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Ampthill
What is the average house price in Ampthill?
The median home in Ampthill sold for £420,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 389 standard sales (£425,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £595,000, semi-detached houses £429,500, terraced houses £352,500 and flats and maisonettes £242,500.
Are house prices going up in Ampthill?
The median was £425,500 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£400,000), and £425,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Ampthill each year?
117 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 170 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Ampthill?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Flitwick Road (MK45, £1,090,500), Swaffield Close (MK45, £700,000) and Station Road (MK45, £592,500).
Is Ampthill expensive for Bedfordshire?
Ampthill is the 7th most expensive of 33 towns of 2,500 or more in Bedfordshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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