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Downswood market report ME15 6, Maidstone
The ME15 6 (Downswood) 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: 6,413 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME15 6 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for ME15 6 (Maidstone) is £300,000, from 57 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £293,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,413 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME15 6 is one sector of ME15 (Maidstone): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ME15 6 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 6 prices, from the sold record
Take the 57 registered 2026 sales in ME15 6 and the middle price, the median, is £300,000. The mean lands at £293,400, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in ME15 6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME15 6 sales average about £3,800 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME15 6 runs 5% above it.
A typical ME15 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 135 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 122 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 138 |
| 2022 | £306,000 | £358,820 | 175 |
| 2021 | £282,000 | £357,048 | 235 |
| 2020 | £257,000 | £333,463 | 145 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 175 |
| 2018 | £257,500 | £343,252 | 191 |
| 2017 | £234,200 | £319,425 | 288 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 296 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 234 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 255 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 155 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 115 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 164 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 163 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 179 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 177 |
| 2007 | £176,000 | £298,545 | 288 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 297 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 331 |
| 2004 | £159,700 | £290,046 | 266 |
| 2003 | £138,000 | £254,229 | 247 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 275 |
| 2001 | £103,200 | £198,397 | 216 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 231 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 184 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 199 |
| 1997 | £66,200 | £135,763 | 200 |
| 1996 | £56,200 | £118,523 | 148 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 6 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME15 6 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 2017 (+33.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−16.7%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 6
The year-by-year sales count
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, 57 sales completed in ME15 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 269 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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 ME15 6
For renting purposes ME15 6 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, which against the £300,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
What kind of market ME15 6 is
This is a thin market: 57 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. Within ME15, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: ME15 6 (Downswood)
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Where do ME15 6 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in ME15 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 ME15 district, not just ME15 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Bridge Mill Way, MAIDSTONE, Kent, ME15
- The Penstocks, Maidstone, Kent, ME15
- Salts Avenue, Loose, Maidstone, Kent
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every ME15 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. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME15
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME15's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME15 0 | £560,000 | 17 |
| 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 6: 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 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME15 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME15 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual ME15 6 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.