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Bearsted market report ME14, Maidstone
The standing ME14 (Bearsted) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 19,506 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME14 (Maidstone) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME14 (Maidstone) came in at £323,800, out of 186 registered, down 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £366,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,020 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 19,506 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME14 is a postcode district covering Maidstone (north and east), Bearsted, Grove Green in Maidstone. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where ME14 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 homes really sell for
186 sales were registered in ME14 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £323,800. The mean works out at £366,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in ME14
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME14 costs about £4,020 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME14 14% above the country at large.
ME14's median sold price, 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 | £323,800 | £323,800 | 186 |
| 2025 | £362,000 | £370,657 | 523 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 534 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 588 |
| 2022 | £348,500 | £408,656 | 553 |
| 2021 | £335,000 | £424,153 | 879 |
| 2020 | £282,000 | £365,901 | 601 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 439 |
| 2018 | £305,000 | £406,571 | 515 |
| 2017 | £299,000 | £407,806 | 607 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 588 |
| 2015 | £250,800 | £354,380 | 580 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 609 |
| 2013 | £217,800 | £313,392 | 541 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 457 |
| 2011 | £198,200 | £299,206 | 474 |
| 2010 | £211,000 | £330,902 | 430 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 450 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 429 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 831 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 854 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 722 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 785 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 742 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 828 |
| 2001 | £117,500 | £225,888 | 777 |
| 2000 | £92,200 | £180,943 | 608 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 767 |
| 1998 | £81,000 | £163,504 | 641 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 719 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 672 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 577 |
In cash terms the typical ME14 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £323,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 129%, 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 24% 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 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 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−21.1%). 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) | −10.6% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £590,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, ME14
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £590,000 | 45 | 4,472 |
| Semi-detached | £400,000 | 42 | 5,047 |
| Terraced | £287,500 | 48 | 5,692 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 51 | 4,295 |
Sales activity in ME14
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 402 ME14 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 768 sales a year before the financial crisis and 477 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.
How ME14 trades
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.
What homes rent for around ME14
For renting purposes ME14 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 £323,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Common questions on ME14 (Bearsted)
How much did a house sell for in ME14 (Bearsted)?
Are property prices falling in ME14 (Bearsted)?
Is ME14 (Bearsted) a good place to buy a house?
Where do ME14 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in ME14 today
Everything above is what homes in ME14 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 20 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% below the ME14 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME14 ranks 19 of 20 in the ME area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside ME14, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| ME14 5 | £348,000 | 55 |
How ME14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £377,500 | +16% |
| ME3 | £375,000 | +8% |
| ME17 | £375,000 | -1% |
| ME16 | £352,000 | +7% |
| ME9 | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME15 | £338,000 | +4% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME14 (this report) | £323,800 | -3% |
| ME5 | £305,000 | +11% |
| ME1 | £302,800 | +7% |
| ME6 | £288,500 | +1% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME10 | £284,000 | +11% |
| ME7 | £268,500 | +9% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 | £249,500 | +4% |
Selling a home in ME14? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME14'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.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME14 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME14 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.