That is the middle of 6,513 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 6.3 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 Milton Keynes’s sales are detached houses
6,513 homes sold in three years: 2,163 detached houses, 1,719 semi-detached houses, 1,593 terraced houses and 1,038 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£521K
median sale · 2,163 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£438K–£610K
Last 12 months
£520K548 sold
New build
£535K
Semi-detached houses£345K
median sale · 1,719 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£409K
Last 12 months
£325K451 sold
New build
£417K
Terraced houses£286K
median sale · 1,593 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£236K–£340K
Last 12 months
£290K471 sold
New build
£387K
Flats and maisonettes£185K
median sale · 1,038 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£113K–£248K
Last 12 months
£171K269 sold
New build
£271K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 33% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses26%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes16%
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 Milton Keynes’s homes sold for between £252K and £460K
One sale in ten was under £150K and one in ten over £595K. 24% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £349,000, sits in the £300–400K band
6,513 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £52,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in the last 12 months (£294,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,739 sales in the last 12 months, against 5,374 in 2002, the busiest year, and 2,218 in 2025. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 43% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Milton Keynes costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Milton Keynes, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£89K
£150K
£250K
£282K
£360K
£456K
£520K
Semi-detached houses
£51K
£77K
£153K
£182K
£228K
£303K
£325K
Terraced houses
£40K
£69K
£140K
£150K
£196K
£258K
£290K
Flats and maisonettes
£24K
£38K
£100K
£125K
£145K
£158K
£171K
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
3% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
22,625 new homes have been sold in Milton Keynes since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £450,000
against £320,000 for a home sold on, 41% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
21% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 6.9% sold leasehold in Milton Keynes. 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
Fen Street is Milton Keynes’s busiest street, with 70 sales in three years
403 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 107 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
Fen Street
MK10
70
£205,000
Mixed
2
Chalice Way
MK17
36
£470,000
Mixed · new builds
3
Brahaman Way
MK8
36
£440,000
Mixed · new builds
4
Claridge Crescent
MK17
35
£500,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Bonadventure Avenue
MK10
33
£408,495
Mixed · new builds
6
Barrosa Way
MK8
33
£200,000
Mixed
7
Midsummer Boulevard
MK9
32
£292,500
Mostly flats · new builds
8
Cicero Crescent
MK11
31
£240,000
Mostly flats
9
Ardina Grove
MK8
29
£429,265
Mixed · new builds
10
Burney Drive
MK17
29
£392,500
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
11
Orwell Avenue
MK4
28
£424,414
Mixed · new builds
12
Rambouillet Drive
MK8
25
£440,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
13
Chalkdell Drive
MK5
25
£395,000
Mostly flats · new builds
14
Japonica Lane
MK15
23
£365,000
Mostly flats
15
Harlow Crescent
MK4
23
£300,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Redland Drive: £965,000
Milton Keynes median£349K
Redland Drive£965K
Bradwell Road (MK5)£825K
Pattison Lane£755K
Trafalgar Drive£730K
Lynmouth Crescent£725K
Cheapest streets
Flexerne Crescent: £63,500
Milton Keynes median£349K
Flexerne Crescent£64K
Laxfield Drive£68K
Hendon Court£72K
Flintergill Court£73K
Felsted£81K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 15.2 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 Buckinghamshire
Milton Keynes is the 36th most expensive of 39 towns in Buckinghamshire
Milton Keynes is one of Buckinghamshire’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 Milton Keynes
What is the average house price in Milton Keynes?
The median home in Milton Keynes sold for £349,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 6,513 standard sales (£330,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £520,885, semi-detached houses £345,000, terraced houses £285,500 and flats and maisonettes £185,000.
Are house prices going up in Milton Keynes?
The median was £345,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£355,000), 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 Milton Keynes each year?
1,739 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 2,859 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Milton Keynes?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Redland Drive (MK5, £965,000), Bradwell Road (MK5, £825,000) and Pattison Lane (MK15, £755,000).
How much does a new build cost in Milton Keynes?
New homes sold for a median £450,000 over three years, against £320,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 17% of sales.
Is Milton Keynes expensive for Buckinghamshire?
Milton Keynes is the 36th most expensive of 39 towns of 2,500 or more in Buckinghamshire 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.
Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0