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Downswood market report ME15 7, Maidstone
The standing ME15 7 (Downswood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,573 HM Land Registry entries for ME15 7 (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 2026 median for ME15 7 (Maidstone) is £320,000, from 46 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £329,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,790 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,573 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME15 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME15 (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 ME15 7 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.
The going rate for a home in ME15 7
46 sales were registered in ME15 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £320,000. The mean works out at £329,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in ME15 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME15 7 costs about £3,790 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ME15 7 12% above the national figure.
A typical ME15 7 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £338,800 | £346,902 | 94 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 87 |
| 2023 | £328,000 | £360,392 | 97 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 150 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 169 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 123 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 114 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 137 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 141 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 141 |
| 2015 | £232,000 | £327,816 | 135 |
| 2014 | £183,000 | £259,617 | 153 |
| 2013 | £179,000 | £257,563 | 139 |
| 2012 | £172,400 | £253,751 | 108 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 94 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 105 |
| 2009 | £155,200 | £249,485 | 102 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 118 |
| 2007 | £181,200 | £307,366 | 236 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 223 |
| 2005 | £147,000 | £261,601 | 167 |
| 2004 | £154,000 | £279,694 | 189 |
| 2003 | £140,500 | £258,835 | 178 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 197 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 149 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 164 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 239 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 157 |
| 1997 | £60,600 | £124,278 | 164 |
| 1996 | £56,700 | £119,578 | 144 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 7 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 168%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME15 7 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 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME15 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.5% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 ME15 7 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 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 95 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around ME15 7
The local authority for ME15 7 is Maidstone, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £914 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,962, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Maidstone
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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 ME15 7 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME15 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on ME15 7 (Downswood)
Are property prices falling in ME15 7 (Downswood)?
Is ME15 7 (Downswood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME15 7 (Downswood)?
Will ME15 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
ME15's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 20 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME15 district, not just ME15 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 0 | £560,000 | 17 |
| ME15 6 | £300,000 | 57 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in ME15 7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME15 7'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME15 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME15 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME15 7 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.