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Downswood market report ME15 0, Maidstone
The ME15 0 (Downswood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,979 HM Land Registry entries for ME15 0 (Maidstone), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME15 0 (Maidstone) came in at £560,000, out of 17 registered, up 24% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £604,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,600 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 1,979 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like ME15 0 is a single group of streets within ME15 (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 ME15 0 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.
Today's ME15 0 prices, from the sold record
In the ME15 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £560,000, from 17 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £604,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in ME15 0
By floor space, homes in ME15 0 have sold for about £4,600 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 ME15 0 96% above the country at large.
The price of a typical ME15 0 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £560,000 | £560,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £445,000 | £455,641 | 57 |
| 2024 | £480,000 | £510,339 | 43 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 65 |
| 2022 | £515,000 | £603,896 | 63 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 98 |
| 2020 | £422,500 | £548,202 | 54 |
| 2019 | £460,000 | £602,950 | 37 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 59 |
| 2017 | £410,000 | £559,199 | 62 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 61 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 49 |
| 2014 | £289,000 | £409,997 | 56 |
| 2013 | £315,000 | £453,254 | 58 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 59 |
| 2011 | £246,000 | £371,365 | 50 |
| 2010 | £288,500 | £452,442 | 52 |
| 2009 | £287,500 | £462,159 | 42 |
| 2008 | £290,500 | £476,191 | 36 |
| 2007 | £336,200 | £570,289 | 90 |
| 2006 | £306,500 | £532,045 | 103 |
| 2005 | £272,500 | £484,940 | 54 |
| 2004 | £275,000 | £499,454 | 88 |
| 2003 | £264,000 | £486,352 | 68 |
| 2002 | £232,000 | £436,506 | 81 |
| 2001 | £158,000 | £303,747 | 66 |
| 2000 | £166,200 | £326,168 | 64 |
| 1999 | £135,000 | £269,048 | 59 |
| 1998 | £128,000 | £258,377 | 61 |
| 1997 | £116,500 | £238,918 | 84 |
| 1996 | £97,000 | £204,569 | 74 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 0 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £560,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME15 0 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 (+46.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−14.7%). 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) | +25.8% | +22.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 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 ME15 0
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in ME15 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 77 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 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.
What tenants pay around ME15 0
The local authority for ME15 0 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.
Against the £560,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 2.8% 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.
Reading the ME15 0 market
This is a thin market: 17 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 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 ME15 district median, ME15 0 sits 66% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
ME15 0 (Downswood): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in ME15 0 (Downswood)?
Are property prices falling in ME15 0 (Downswood)?
Is ME15 0 (Downswood) a good place to buy a house?
Where do ME15 0 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
ME15'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 ME15 district, not just ME15 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bridge Mill Way, MAIDSTONE, Kent, ME15
- The Penstocks, Maidstone, Kent, ME15
- Salts Avenue, Loose, Maidstone, Kent
"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 ME15 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME15 6 | £300,000 | 57 |
| ME15 7 | £320,000 | 46 |
| ME15 8 | £358,500 | 82 |
| ME15 9 | £370,100 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full ME15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME15 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME15 0: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME15 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME15 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME15 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME15 0.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME15 0. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME15 0 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.