That is the middle of 430 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 6.6 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.
430 homes sold in three years: 121 detached houses, 123 semi-detached houses, 152 terraced houses and 34 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£425K
median sale · 121 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£371K–£475K
Last 12 months
£425K31 sold
Semi-detached houses£325K
median sale · 123 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£294K–£350K
Last 12 months
£340K41 sold
Terraced houses£272K
median sale · 152 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£293K
Last 12 months
£280K37 sold
Flats and maisonettes£160K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£130K–£175K
Last 12 months
£173K6 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses35%
Flats and maisonettes8%
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 Sandy’s homes sold for between £259K and £375K
One sale in ten was under £196K and one in ten over £460K. 20% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £315,000, sits in the £300–400K band
430 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,995 in 1995 to £330,000 in the last 12 months (£260,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
115 sales in the last 12 months, against 448 in 1997, the busiest year, and 114 in 2008. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 80% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Sandy costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Sandy, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£93K
£125K
£238K
£244K
£299K
£384K
£425K
Semi-detached houses
£57K
£85K
£171K
£184K
£235K
£282K
£340K
Terraced houses
£42K
£65K
£132K
£137K
£181K
£237K
£280K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
£49K
£95K
£102K
£117K
£139K
£173K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
1,148 new homes have been sold in Sandy since 1995; the share peaked at 59% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.3% sold leasehold in Sandy. 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
St Neots Road is Sandy’s busiest street, with 26 sales in three years
28 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
St Neots Road
SG19
26
£330,000
Mixed
2
Merlin Drive
SG19
15
£402,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Laburnum Road
SG19
14
£255,500
Mixed
4
Western Way
SG19
13
£315,000
Mixed
5
Kestrel Way
SG19
12
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
6
Longfield Road
SG19
10
£255,750
Mostly terraced houses
7
London Road
SG19
9
£325,000
Mixed
8
Jubilee Close
SG19
8
£353,500
Mixed
9
Cambridge Road
SG19
8
£332,500
Mixed
10
Mayfield Court
SG19
8
£164,000
Mostly flats
11
Banks Drive
SG19
7
£365,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Berwick Way
SG19
7
£283,000
Mixed
13
Church Path
SG19
7
£255,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Carlisle Close
SG19
6
£355,000
Mixed
15
Goldfinch Drive
SG19
6
£336,475
Mixed
Dearest streets
Mill Lane: £565,000
Sandy median£315K
Mill Lane£565K
Merlin Drive£402K
Partridge Piece£395K
Kestrel Way£385K
Banks Drive£365K
Cheapest streets
High Street: £138,000
Sandy median£315K
High Street£138K
Mayfield Court£164K
Rectory Court£218K
Oak Close£220K
Church Path£255K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.1 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
Sandy is the 30th most expensive of 33 towns in Bedfordshire
Sandy is one of Bedfordshire’s cheapest 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 Sandy
What is the average house price in Sandy?
The median home in Sandy sold for £315,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 430 standard sales (£330,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £425,000, semi-detached houses £325,000, terraced houses £272,000 and flats and maisonettes £160,000.
Are house prices going up in Sandy?
The median was £311,750 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£295,000), and £330,000 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 Sandy each year?
115 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 Sandy?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Mill Lane (SG19, £565,000), Merlin Drive (SG19, £402,000) and Partridge Piece (SG19, £395,000).
Is Sandy expensive for Bedfordshire?
Sandy is the 30th 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.