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Downswood market report ME15 9, Maidstone
The ME15 9 (Downswood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,243 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME15 9 (Maidstone) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical ME15 9 (Maidstone) home changed hands for £370,100 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £422,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,930 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,243 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME15 9 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 9 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 9
The 2026 median for ME15 9 is £370,100, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £422,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in ME15 9
The last five years of sales put ME15 9 at roughly £3,930 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME15 9 30% above the country at large.
A typical ME15 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £370,100 | £370,100 | 40 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 145 |
| 2024 | £362,500 | £385,412 | 124 |
| 2023 | £372,500 | £409,287 | 106 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 123 |
| 2021 | £343,500 | £434,915 | 180 |
| 2020 | £305,000 | £395,744 | 114 |
| 2019 | £288,800 | £378,548 | 116 |
| 2018 | £286,800 | £382,310 | 128 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 152 |
| 2016 | £261,000 | £365,142 | 162 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 159 |
| 2014 | £228,000 | £323,458 | 149 |
| 2013 | £199,000 | £286,341 | 176 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 218 |
| 2011 | £207,000 | £312,490 | 176 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 129 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 93 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 94 |
| 2007 | £208,000 | £352,826 | 180 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 158 |
| 2005 | £188,200 | £334,920 | 121 |
| 2004 | £191,000 | £346,893 | 139 |
| 2003 | £162,200 | £298,812 | 124 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 141 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 154 |
| 2000 | £114,700 | £225,099 | 126 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 122 |
| 1998 | £87,200 | £176,019 | 112 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 100 |
| 1996 | £66,800 | £140,878 | 92 |
| 1995 | £68,800 | £149,561 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 9 home went from £68,800 in 1995 to £370,100 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 147%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% 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 ME15 9 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME15 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
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, 40 sales completed in ME15 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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 9
For renting purposes ME15 9 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £370,100 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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 9 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME15 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the ME15 district median, ME15 9 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on ME15 9 (Downswood)
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What happens to ME15 9 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in ME15 right now
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 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. 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. 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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME15, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME15 0 | £560,000 | 17 |
| ME15 6 | £300,000 | 57 |
| ME15 7 | £320,000 | 46 |
| ME15 8 | £358,500 | 82 |
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 9? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME15 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME15 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME15 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME15 9.
Go deeper
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See every individual ME15 9 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.