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Downswood market report ME15 8, Maidstone
The ME15 8 (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: 6,798 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME15 8 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 82 registered 2026 sales put the ME15 8 (Maidstone) median at £358,500, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £385,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,798 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME15 8 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 8 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 buyers actually paid in ME15 8
In the ME15 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £358,500, from 82 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £385,700, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in ME15 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME15 8 costs about £4,380 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 ME15 8 26% above the country at large.
The price of a typical ME15 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £358,500 | £358,500 | 82 |
| 2025 | £364,000 | £372,704 | 187 |
| 2024 | £351,500 | £373,717 | 202 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 189 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 201 |
| 2021 | £342,500 | £433,649 | 330 |
| 2020 | £331,000 | £429,479 | 223 |
| 2019 | £298,800 | £391,655 | 150 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 150 |
| 2017 | £315,500 | £430,310 | 266 |
| 2016 | £282,200 | £394,801 | 280 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 217 |
| 2014 | £224,000 | £317,783 | 229 |
| 2013 | £209,000 | £300,730 | 171 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 154 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 154 |
| 2010 | £189,500 | £297,185 | 168 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 146 |
| 2008 | £196,900 | £322,761 | 106 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 246 |
| 2006 | £187,500 | £325,476 | 301 |
| 2005 | £171,000 | £304,311 | 206 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 213 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 267 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 289 |
| 2001 | £112,100 | £215,507 | 196 |
| 2000 | £111,000 | £217,838 | 271 |
| 1999 | £85,600 | £170,596 | 298 |
| 1998 | £78,500 | £158,458 | 257 |
| 1997 | £69,500 | £142,530 | 245 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 228 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £358,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 175%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME15 8 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 2000 (+29.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). 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) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ME15 8
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 82 sales completed in ME15 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 249 sales a year before the financial crisis and 172 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 8
The local authority for ME15 8 is Maidstone, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £358,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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 people ask about ME15 8 (Downswood)
How much did a house sell for in ME15 8 (Downswood)?
Are property prices falling in ME15 8 (Downswood)?
Is ME15 8 (Downswood) a good place to buy a house?
Where do ME15 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in ME15 right now
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
"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 →
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
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
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 6 | £300,000 | 57 |
| ME15 7 | £320,000 | 46 |
| 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.
Selling a home in ME15 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME15 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME15 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME15 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME15 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ME15 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME15 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.