Local-authority profile · E06000055
Bedford
East of England · England
Yield proxy
43rd UK percentile
June 202602 · Long lets£1,170 / monthMonthly rent
59th UK percentile
July 202603 · Long lets3.4%Rent growth
43rd UK percentile
July 202604 · Sales£329,830Sale price
67th UK percentile
June 202605 · Sales4.4%Price growth
64th UK percentile
June 202606 · Sales8.4%Two-year price growth
77th UK percentile
June 202607 · Short stays95.1 / 100 km²Supply density
26th UK percentile
6 Sept 202608 · Evidence100%Search completion
56th UK percentile
6 Sept 2026Comparative position
What stands out in Bedford
These are statistical positions, not causal claims. A high or low percentile says where the latest published value sits among comparable UK local authorities.
Two-year sale-price growth
8.4% · UK median 5.2%
Observed short-stay density
95.1 / 100 km² · UK median 159.4 / 100 km²
Average sale price
£329,830 · UK median £272,210
Observed change
Two years in context
Release history
How the observation layer changed
This compares approved observation releases for Bedford. It describes movement in the evidence system, not verified additions to or removals from local housing stock.
6 Sept 2026
Comparable history is still accumulating
No preceding comparison
Property size
Average private rent by bedroom count
Official modelled monthly rent levels. The four-bedroom band includes properties with four or more bedrooms.
One bedroom
Two bedrooms
Three bedrooms
Four or more
Interpretation boundary
What the profile measures—and what it does not
Mix-adjusted local price indices. Registered-sale counts show provisional source records and must not be read as final market activity.
A modelled stock measure covering new and existing tenancies. Scotland and Northern Ireland use rental geographies that do not map directly to local-authority boundaries, so those values remain blank here.
Average annual rent divided by average sale price for the same month. The source populations cover different homes and no costs are deducted.
453 aggregate records allocated from 12 intersecting observation cells. The value is not complete inventory or a count of unique dwellings.
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Source and citation
Upgraded Intelligence (2026), “Bedford property profile”, UK Property Atlas release 2026.09, updated 6 Sept 2026.