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Bearsted market report ME14 1, Maidstone
The ME14 1 (Bearsted) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,461 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME14 1 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical ME14 1 (Maidstone) home changed hands for £207,500 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, down 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £214,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,461 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like ME14 1 is a single group of streets within ME14 (Maidstone), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME14 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in ME14 1
The ME14 1 median stands at £207,500 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £214,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in ME14 1
By floor space, homes in ME14 1 have sold for about £3,120 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME14 1 27% below the country at large.
A typical ME14 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £207,500 | £207,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 51 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 111 |
| 2023 | £237,500 | £260,955 | 102 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 105 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 109 |
| 2020 | £156,000 | £202,413 | 45 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 58 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 77 |
| 2017 | £207,800 | £283,418 | 104 |
| 2016 | £162,500 | £227,339 | 99 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 58 |
| 2014 | £132,000 | £187,265 | 81 |
| 2013 | £119,000 | £171,229 | 63 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 57 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 83 |
| 2010 | £132,500 | £207,794 | 69 |
| 2009 | £122,000 | £196,116 | 33 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 94 |
| 2007 | £168,800 | £286,332 | 122 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 84 |
| 2005 | £134,500 | £239,356 | 84 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 90 |
| 2003 | £136,800 | £252,019 | 96 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 113 |
| 2001 | £86,000 | £165,331 | 91 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 56 |
| 1999 | £51,000 | £101,640 | 69 |
| 1998 | £54,000 | £109,003 | 51 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 80 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 49 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical ME14 1 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £207,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 38% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME14 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2021 (+69.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−39.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +43.1% | +39.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.8% | −9.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
ME14 1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 80 sales a year recently, against 92 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around ME14 1
For renting purposes ME14 1 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £914 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,962 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Maidstone
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, which against the £207,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market ME14 1 is
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME14 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the ME14 district median, ME14 1 sits 36% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about ME14 1 (Bearsted)
How much did a house sell for in ME14 1 (Bearsted)?
Are property prices falling in ME14 1 (Bearsted)?
Is ME14 1 (Bearsted) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME14 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in ME14 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 20 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME14 district, not just ME14 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Peel Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14
- Forge Cottages, The Green, Maidstone, Maidstone
- Harple Lane, Detling, Detling
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every ME14 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £360,000 | £494,995 (+37%) | £690,997 (+40%) | £920,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £282,000 | £327,000 (+16%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £475,000 (+23%) | £615,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £250,000 | £275,000 (+10%) | £315,000 (+15%) | £405,000 (+29%) | £567,500 (+40%) |
| Flat | £166,500 | £225,000 (+35%) | £340,000 (+51%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ME area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
ME area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME14 2 | £270,000 | 59 |
| ME14 3 | £426,500 | 11 |
| ME14 4 | £539,000 | 31 |
| ME14 5 | £348,000 | 55 |
Zoom out to the full ME14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME14 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME14 1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME14 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME14 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME14 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working ME14 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME14 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME14 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME14 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.