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Barming market report ME16 8, Maidstone
The ME16 8 (Barming) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,641 registered sales in ME16 8 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for ME16 8 (Maidstone) is £278,800, from 70 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £292,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,641 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME16 8 is one sector of ME16 (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 ME16 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.
The going rate for a home in ME16 8
The 2026 median for ME16 8 is £278,800, taken from 70 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £292,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in ME16 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME16 8 sales average about £3,550 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME16 8 2% below the country at large.
The price of a typical ME16 8 home, 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 | £278,800 | £278,800 | 70 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 169 |
| 2024 | £261,000 | £277,497 | 142 |
| 2023 | £262,000 | £287,874 | 161 |
| 2022 | £266,000 | £311,915 | 208 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 219 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 165 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 168 |
| 2018 | £223,200 | £297,530 | 214 |
| 2017 | £210,700 | £287,374 | 266 |
| 2016 | £200,500 | £280,501 | 242 |
| 2015 | £175,000 | £247,275 | 269 |
| 2014 | £173,000 | £245,431 | 286 |
| 2013 | £152,500 | £219,432 | 225 |
| 2012 | £152,000 | £223,725 | 213 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 188 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 140 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 223 |
| 2008 | £166,000 | £272,109 | 251 |
| 2007 | £168,200 | £285,314 | 376 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 374 |
| 2005 | £153,500 | £273,168 | 341 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 315 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 315 |
| 2002 | £108,000 | £203,201 | 325 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 273 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 319 |
| 1999 | £64,000 | £127,549 | 307 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 254 |
| 1997 | £53,500 | £109,718 | 258 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 199 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical ME16 8 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £278,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 164%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME16 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 2002 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME16 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 70 ME16 8 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 330 sales a year before the financial crisis and 150 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.
The shape of the ME16 8 market
Within ME16, this sector trades 21% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around ME16 8
The local authority for ME16 8 is Maidstone, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £914 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,962 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £278,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 ME16 8 (Barming)
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What happens to ME16 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in ME16 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME16 district, not just ME16 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
48% 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.
- Nursery Avenue, Maidstone, Maidstone
- Clifford Way, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
- Green Horse Grove, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
"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 ME16 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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 | — | £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. 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.
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 ME16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME16 0 | £387,500 | 86 |
| ME16 9 | £385,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full ME16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME16 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME16 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME16 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME16 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME16 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME16 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME16 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME16 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.