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Bearsted market report ME14 4, Maidstone
The ME14 4 (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: 3,249 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME14 4 (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: the typical home in ME14 4 (Maidstone) sold for £539,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £539,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,249 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
ME14 4 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 4 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 ME14 4 homes really sell for
31 sales were registered in ME14 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £539,000. The mean works out at £539,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in ME14 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME14 4 sales average about £4,830 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME14 4 sits 89% above the national market.
A typical ME14 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £539,000 | £539,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £527,000 | £539,602 | 131 |
| 2024 | £498,900 | £530,433 | 76 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 61 |
| 2022 | £538,500 | £631,453 | 114 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 183 |
| 2020 | £456,000 | £591,669 | 88 |
| 2019 | £439,000 | £575,424 | 62 |
| 2018 | £453,500 | £604,524 | 87 |
| 2017 | £455,000 | £620,574 | 97 |
| 2016 | £421,200 | £589,263 | 72 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 117 |
| 2014 | £342,500 | £485,896 | 104 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 101 |
| 2012 | £272,000 | £400,350 | 85 |
| 2011 | £295,000 | £445,337 | 104 |
| 2010 | £284,500 | £446,169 | 92 |
| 2009 | £253,500 | £407,503 | 96 |
| 2008 | £321,000 | £526,187 | 80 |
| 2007 | £314,000 | £532,631 | 121 |
| 2006 | £302,500 | £525,101 | 153 |
| 2005 | £265,000 | £471,593 | 102 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 102 |
| 2003 | £238,800 | £439,928 | 114 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 109 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 112 |
| 2000 | £153,500 | £301,244 | 89 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 107 |
| 1998 | £130,000 | £262,414 | 95 |
| 1997 | £115,000 | £235,842 | 131 |
| 1996 | £99,200 | £209,208 | 126 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical ME14 4 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £539,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME14 4 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | −0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in ME14 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around ME14 4
The local authority for ME14 4 is Maidstone, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £539,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the ME14 4 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME14 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the ME14 district median, ME14 4 sits 66% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: ME14 4 (Bearsted)
Is ME14 4 (Bearsted) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME14 4 (Bearsted)?
Are property prices falling in ME14 4 (Bearsted)?
What happens to ME14 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every ME14 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 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 2 | £270,000 | 59 |
| ME14 3 | £426,500 | 11 |
| 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 a home in ME14 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME14 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME14 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME14 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME14 4.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME14 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME14 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.