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Downswood market report ME15, Maidstone
The ME15 (Downswood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 24,111 registered sales in ME15 (Maidstone) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 293 registered 2026 sales put the ME15 (Maidstone) median at £335,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £371,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,070 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 24,111 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME15 is the postcode district covering Maidstone (south), Bearsted (Madginford), Downswood in Maidstone. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where ME15 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
293 sales were registered in ME15 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £335,000. The mean works out at £371,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
ME15 prices by floor area
Per square metre, ME15 homes have averaged around £4,070 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME15 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
ME15's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 293 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 654 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 592 |
| 2023 | £345,000 | £379,071 | 596 |
| 2022 | £342,200 | £401,269 | 712 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 1,012 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 659 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 592 |
| 2018 | £282,000 | £375,911 | 665 |
| 2017 | £273,000 | £372,345 | 909 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 940 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 794 |
| 2014 | £213,500 | £302,887 | 842 |
| 2013 | £198,800 | £286,053 | 699 |
| 2012 | £200,000 | £294,375 | 654 |
| 2011 | £186,000 | £280,788 | 638 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 617 |
| 2009 | £170,800 | £274,562 | 562 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 532 |
| 2007 | £192,200 | £326,025 | 1,042 |
| 2006 | £181,500 | £315,061 | 1,082 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 879 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 895 |
| 2003 | £149,700 | £275,784 | 884 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 983 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 781 |
| 2000 | £99,500 | £195,269 | 856 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 902 |
| 1998 | £74,700 | £150,787 | 786 |
| 1997 | £69,500 | £142,530 | 793 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 686 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 580 |
In cash terms the typical ME15 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME15 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 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £530,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, ME15
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £530,000 | 55 | 4,503 |
| Semi-detached | £355,000 | 113 | 9,314 |
| Terraced | £310,000 | 94 | 7,488 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 31 | 2,806 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.3% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.9% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 504 sales completed in ME15. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 925 sales a year before the financial crisis and 569 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 tenants pay around ME15
For renting purposes ME15 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.
Against the £335,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
What people ask about ME15 (Downswood)
Is ME15 (Downswood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME15 (Downswood)?
Are property prices falling in ME15 (Downswood)?
Where do ME15 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in ME15 today
Everything above is what homes in ME15 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 8 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the ME15 median sold price.
Set against 504 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 8 homes on the market here are roughly a week of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
When homes in ME15 change hands
March is when ME15 changes hands most (11.0% of the 3,566 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.6%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 260 | 7.3% |
| February | 278 | 7.8% |
| March | 392 | 11.0% |
| April | 234 | 6.6% |
| May | 251 | 7.0% |
| June | 372 | 10.4% |
| July | 293 | 8.2% |
| August | 320 | 9.0% |
| September | 323 | 9.1% |
| October | 311 | 8.7% |
| November | 280 | 7.9% |
| December | 252 | 7.1% |
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £322,000 | £360,000 (+12%) | £425,000 (+18%) | £510,000 (+20%) | £600,000 (+18%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £310,000 (+13%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £425,000 (+20%) | £525,500 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £221,250 | £263,580 (+19%) | £285,000 (+8%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £430,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £158,000 | £200,000 (+27%) | £260,000 (+30%) | £332,500 (+28%) | £399,950 (+20%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
ME15 ranks 13 of 20 in the ME area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
ME area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside ME15, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME15 0 | £535,000 | 23 |
| ME15 6 | £300,000 | 67 |
| ME15 7 | £320,000 | 55 |
| ME15 8 | £356,000 | 94 |
| ME15 9 | £372,500 | 54 |
How ME15 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £466,200 | -4% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME17 | £380,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £375,000 | +15% |
| ME3 | £370,000 | +6% |
| ME9 | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME16 | £345,000 | +5% |
| ME15 (this report) | £335,000 | +3% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME14 | £330,000 | -1% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME5 | £307,500 | +12% |
| ME1 | £305,000 | +8% |
| ME6 | £292,000 | +2% |
| ME10 | £290,000 | +13% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME7 | £270,000 | +10% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 | £249,000 | +4% |
Before you sell in ME15: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME15, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME15 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME15 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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See every individual ME15 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.