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Barming market report ME16 9, Maidstone
The standing ME16 9 (Barming) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,271 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME16 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical ME16 9 (Maidstone) home changed hands for £385,000 in 2026 (median of 37 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £392,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,270 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,271 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME16 9 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 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.
ME16 9 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for ME16 9 is £385,000, taken from 37 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £392,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in ME16 9
By floor space, homes in ME16 9 have sold for about £4,270 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME16 9 runs 35% above it.
The price of a typical ME16 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £414,000 | £423,900 | 146 |
| 2024 | £419,200 | £445,696 | 152 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 121 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 177 |
| 2021 | £374,200 | £473,785 | 226 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 142 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 182 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 163 |
| 2017 | £348,700 | £475,592 | 130 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 120 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 81 |
| 2014 | £255,000 | £361,762 | 78 |
| 2013 | £231,200 | £332,674 | 54 |
| 2012 | £217,500 | £320,133 | 68 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 64 |
| 2010 | £244,000 | £382,655 | 54 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 69 |
| 2008 | £242,500 | £397,509 | 44 |
| 2007 | £243,000 | £412,196 | 114 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 105 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 85 |
| 2004 | £191,200 | £347,257 | 88 |
| 2003 | £188,500 | £347,263 | 78 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 105 |
| 2001 | £124,000 | £238,384 | 72 |
| 2000 | £121,200 | £237,855 | 60 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 104 |
| 1998 | £92,500 | £186,718 | 85 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 103 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 90 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical ME16 9 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 132%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% 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 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 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.0% | −9.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in ME16 9. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 127 sales a year over the last five years against 88 before the financial crisis. 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 homes rent for around ME16 9
The local authority for ME16 9 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.
Set against the £385,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
The shape of the ME16 9 market
This is a thin market: 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within ME16, this sector trades 9% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: ME16 9 (Barming)
Are property prices falling in ME16 9 (Barming)?
Is ME16 9 (Barming) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME16 9 (Barming)?
Where do ME16 9 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.
ME16's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 30 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME16 district, not just ME16 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 48% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Nursery Avenue, Maidstone, Maidstone
- Clifford Way, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
- Green Horse Grove, Maidstone, Kent, ME16
"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 ME16 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
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 ME16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME16 0 | £387,500 | 86 |
| ME16 8 | £278,800 | 70 |
Zoom out to the full ME16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ME16 9? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME16 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME16 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME16 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME16 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME16 9.
Take it further
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See every individual ME16 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.