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Bearsted market report ME14 2, Maidstone
The ME14 2 (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: 6,555 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME14 2 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 59 registered 2026 sales put the ME14 2 (Maidstone) median at £270,000, up 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £332,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,710 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,555 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME14 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME14 (Maidstone). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where ME14 2 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 a home in ME14 2 sells for
59 sales were registered in ME14 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £332,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in ME14 2
By floor space, homes in ME14 2 have sold for about £3,710 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 2 5% below the country at large.
ME14 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £268,800 | £275,228 | 166 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 171 |
| 2023 | £254,000 | £279,084 | 289 |
| 2022 | £272,000 | £318,951 | 165 |
| 2021 | £253,000 | £320,331 | 338 |
| 2020 | £247,500 | £321,136 | 263 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 127 |
| 2018 | £249,200 | £332,188 | 162 |
| 2017 | £240,500 | £328,018 | 186 |
| 2016 | £221,900 | £310,440 | 201 |
| 2015 | £217,200 | £306,904 | 194 |
| 2014 | £187,000 | £265,292 | 207 |
| 2013 | £179,800 | £258,714 | 150 |
| 2012 | £176,000 | £259,050 | 122 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 132 |
| 2010 | £165,800 | £260,017 | 128 |
| 2009 | £157,500 | £253,183 | 128 |
| 2008 | £167,500 | £274,568 | 127 |
| 2007 | £184,000 | £312,115 | 288 |
| 2006 | £163,000 | £282,947 | 313 |
| 2005 | £158,500 | £282,066 | 283 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 295 |
| 2003 | £133,500 | £245,939 | 250 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 297 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 282 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 227 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 257 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 208 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 206 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 175 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical ME14 2 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME14 2 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 2002 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.0%). 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) | +0.4% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
ME14 2 recorded 59 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 279 sales a year before the financial crisis and 170 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the ME14 2 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME14 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within ME14, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around ME14 2
ME14 2 falls under Maidstone, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £914 a month here against £1,962 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Maidstone
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £270,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 5.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: ME14 2 (Bearsted)
Are property prices falling in ME14 2 (Bearsted)?
Is ME14 2 (Bearsted) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME14 2 (Bearsted)?
Are ME14 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in ME14 today
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in ME
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ME area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £207,500 | 30 |
| 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.
Selling in ME14 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME14 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME14 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME14 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME14 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.