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Barming market report ME16, Maidstone
The ME16 (Barming) 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: 20,114 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME16 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for ME16 (Maidstone) is £352,000, from 193 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £361,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,050 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 20,114 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME16 is a postcode district covering Maidstone (west of the River Medway), Barming, Allington in Maidstone. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where ME16 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.
Today's ME16 prices, from the sold record
Across 193 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) ME16 home went for £352,000. The mean is £361,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in ME16
A square metre of ME16 home has cost about £4,050 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME16 sits 24% above the national market.
ME16's median sold price, 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 | £352,000 | £352,000 | 193 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 548 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 494 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 461 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 619 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 785 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 525 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 559 |
| 2018 | £299,000 | £398,573 | 635 |
| 2017 | £275,000 | £375,072 | 750 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 655 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 612 |
| 2014 | £212,000 | £300,759 | 664 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 523 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 481 |
| 2011 | £182,500 | £275,505 | 453 |
| 2010 | £199,000 | £312,083 | 356 |
| 2009 | £169,200 | £271,990 | 504 |
| 2008 | £178,000 | £291,780 | 484 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 911 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 934 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 896 |
| 2004 | £167,700 | £304,576 | 952 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 817 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 899 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 719 |
| 2000 | £99,400 | £195,073 | 754 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 783 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 576 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 625 |
| 1996 | £64,200 | £135,395 | 510 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 437 |
In cash terms the typical ME16 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £352,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 170%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME16 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 (+21.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.7%). 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, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £550,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, ME16
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 | £550,000 | 38 | 3,171 |
| Semi-detached | £381,200 | 66 | 6,129 |
| Terraced | £290,000 | 51 | 6,101 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 38 | 4,713 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.6% | −1.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in ME16
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 434 ME16 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 860 sales a year before the financial crisis and 463 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.
Reading the ME16 market
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, ME16 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around ME16
For renting purposes ME16 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £352,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 ME16 (Barming)
Is ME16 (Barming) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME16 (Barming)?
Are property prices falling in ME16 (Barming)?
Where do ME16 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
ME16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in ME16 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 30 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 32% below the ME16 median sold price.
48% 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.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME16 ranks 10 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside ME16, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME16 0 | £387,500 | 86 |
| ME16 8 | £278,800 | 70 |
| ME16 9 | £385,000 | 37 |
How ME16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £377,500 | +16% |
| ME3 | £375,000 | +8% |
| ME17 | £375,000 | -1% |
| ME16 (this report) | £352,000 | +7% |
| ME9 | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME15 | £338,000 | +4% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME14 | £323,800 | -3% |
| ME5 | £305,000 | +11% |
| ME1 | £302,800 | +7% |
| ME6 | £288,500 | +1% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME10 | £284,000 | +11% |
| ME7 | £268,500 | +9% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 | £249,500 | +4% |
Selling a home in ME16? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME16's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME16.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME16. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME16 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.