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Hollingbourne market report ME17 1, Maidstone
The ME17 1 (Hollingbourne) 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: 2,757 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME17 1 (Maidstone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for ME17 1 (Maidstone) is £396,500, from 30 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £458,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,370 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,757 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME17 1 is one sector of ME17 (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 ME17 1 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.
What a home in ME17 1 sells for
The ME17 1 median stands at £396,500 for 2026, built from 30 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £458,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in ME17 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME17 1 costs about £4,370 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ME17 1 39% above the national figure.
ME17 1's median sold price, 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 | £396,500 | £396,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £466,200 | £477,348 | 104 |
| 2024 | £437,000 | £464,621 | 73 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 69 |
| 2022 | £407,500 | £477,840 | 106 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 170 |
| 2020 | £415,100 | £538,601 | 85 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 71 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 127 |
| 2017 | £343,000 | £467,818 | 148 |
| 2016 | £321,500 | £449,782 | 99 |
| 2015 | £342,500 | £483,953 | 80 |
| 2014 | £292,800 | £415,388 | 126 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 74 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 35 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 51 |
| 2010 | £355,000 | £556,731 | 58 |
| 2009 | £217,500 | £349,633 | 45 |
| 2008 | £247,500 | £405,705 | 39 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 110 |
| 2006 | £279,500 | £485,176 | 106 |
| 2005 | £248,000 | £441,340 | 89 |
| 2004 | £248,000 | £450,416 | 97 |
| 2003 | £226,500 | £417,268 | 77 |
| 2002 | £186,200 | £350,334 | 104 |
| 2001 | £162,500 | £312,398 | 97 |
| 2000 | £148,000 | £290,450 | 73 |
| 1999 | £149,000 | £296,949 | 92 |
| 1998 | £106,000 | £213,969 | 98 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 111 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 69 |
| 1995 | £81,500 | £177,168 | 44 |
In cash terms the typical ME17 1 home went from £81,500 in 1995 to £396,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 124%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME17 1 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 2010 (+63.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−33.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.0% | −16.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in ME17 1
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
ME17 1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 76 sales a year recently, against 94 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around ME17 1
ME17 1 falls under Maidstone, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £396,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 ME17 1 market
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME17 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: ME17 1 (Hollingbourne)
How much did a house sell for in ME17 1 (Hollingbourne)?
Are property prices falling in ME17 1 (Hollingbourne)?
Is ME17 1 (Hollingbourne) a good place to buy a house?
Are ME17 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
ME17's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME17 district, not just ME17 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Mitchell Close, Lenham, Lenham
- Newbury House, 30 Lenham Road, Platts Heath, Platts Heath
- Avalon, 10 Whitehall Drive, Kingswood, Kingswood
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every ME17 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 ME17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME17 2 | £380,500 | 24 |
| ME17 3 | £370,000 | 35 |
| ME17 4 | £372,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full ME17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME17 1? 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 ME17 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME17 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME17 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME17 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME17 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME17 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME17 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.