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Bearsted market report ME14 5, Maidstone
The ME14 5 (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: 6,260 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME14 5 (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 2026 median for ME14 5 (Maidstone) is £348,000, from 55 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £368,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,330 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,260 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like ME14 5 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 5 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 5 homes really sell for
In the ME14 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £348,000, from 55 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £368,600, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in ME14 5
Per square metre, ME14 5 homes have averaged around £4,330 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME14 5 sits 22% above the national market.
ME14 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £348,000 | £348,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £382,500 | £391,647 | 147 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 151 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 117 |
| 2022 | £358,800 | £420,734 | 142 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 217 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 173 |
| 2019 | £315,500 | £413,545 | 164 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 157 |
| 2017 | £326,000 | £444,631 | 170 |
| 2016 | £302,800 | £423,620 | 176 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 184 |
| 2014 | £246,000 | £348,994 | 183 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 189 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 174 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 138 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 129 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 167 |
| 2008 | £214,500 | £351,611 | 118 |
| 2007 | £208,500 | £353,674 | 260 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 256 |
| 2005 | £191,000 | £339,903 | 229 |
| 2004 | £189,000 | £343,261 | 259 |
| 2003 | £166,000 | £305,812 | 246 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 273 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 249 |
| 2000 | £98,000 | £192,325 | 210 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 296 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 245 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 271 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 296 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 219 |
In cash terms the typical ME14 5 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £348,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 135%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 27% 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 5 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 2001 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.0% | −11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in ME14 5
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
ME14 5 recorded 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 122 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.
Reading the ME14 5 market
This is a thin market: 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
The rental side of ME14 5
For renting purposes ME14 5 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.
Against the £348,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
What people ask about ME14 5 (Bearsted)
How much did a house sell for in ME14 5 (Bearsted)?
Are property prices falling in ME14 5 (Bearsted)?
Is ME14 5 (Bearsted) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME14 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
ME14's current homes for sale
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 5: 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" 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.
What another bedroom costs in ME
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 4 | £539,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full ME14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME14 5? 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 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME14 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME14 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME14 5 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.