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Hollingbourne market report ME17 2, Maidstone
The ME17 2 (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: 2,196 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME17 2 (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 middle 2026 sale in ME17 2 (Maidstone) came in at £380,500, out of 24 registered, down 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £432,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,196 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME17 2 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 2 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 ME17 2 homes really sell for
The ME17 2 median stands at £380,500 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £432,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in ME17 2
The last five years of sales put ME17 2 at roughly £4,160 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME17 2 trades 34% above the country as a whole.
A typical ME17 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £380,500 | £380,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 87 |
| 2024 | £386,500 | £410,929 | 69 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 63 |
| 2022 | £378,800 | £444,186 | 66 |
| 2021 | £412,500 | £522,278 | 108 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 71 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 49 |
| 2018 | £326,500 | £435,231 | 70 |
| 2017 | £317,500 | £433,038 | 62 |
| 2016 | £320,200 | £447,963 | 68 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 72 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 71 |
| 2013 | £223,500 | £321,594 | 62 |
| 2012 | £209,500 | £308,358 | 56 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 55 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 41 |
| 2009 | £259,000 | £416,345 | 46 |
| 2008 | £237,500 | £389,313 | 44 |
| 2007 | £232,000 | £393,537 | 83 |
| 2006 | £224,200 | £389,183 | 94 |
| 2005 | £219,500 | £390,622 | 81 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 75 |
| 2003 | £193,000 | £355,553 | 90 |
| 2002 | £139,700 | £262,844 | 74 |
| 2001 | £126,500 | £243,190 | 76 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 74 |
| 1999 | £99,000 | £197,302 | 78 |
| 1998 | £86,500 | £174,606 | 71 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 89 |
| 1996 | £76,000 | £160,281 | 61 |
| 1995 | £72,800 | £158,256 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical ME17 2 home went from £72,800 in 1995 to £380,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME17 2 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 2003 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−11.2%). 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) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in ME17 2
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
ME17 2 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 81 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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.
What kind of market ME17 2 is
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME17 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around ME17 2
For renting purposes ME17 2 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 £380,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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 ME17 2 (Hollingbourne)
Is ME17 2 (Hollingbourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME17 2 (Hollingbourne)?
Are property prices falling in ME17 2 (Hollingbourne)?
Are ME17 2 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
What you could buy in ME17 now
The live side of the market holds 45 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME17 district, not just ME17 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs 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 | — | £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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME17
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME17, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME17 1 | £396,500 | 30 |
| 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 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME17 2'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 ME17 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME17 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME17 2 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.
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.