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Hollingbourne market report ME17 3, Maidstone
The standing ME17 3 (Hollingbourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,274 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME17 3 (Maidstone) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 middle 2026 sale in ME17 3 (Maidstone) came in at £370,000, out of 35 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £384,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,274 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like ME17 3 is a single group of streets within ME17 (Maidstone), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME17 3 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 ME17 3 prices, from the sold record
Take the 35 registered 2026 sales in ME17 3 and the middle price, the median, is £370,000. The mean lands at £384,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
ME17 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of ME17 3 home has cost about £4,260 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME17 3 trades 30% above the country as a whole.
A typical ME17 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 147 |
| 2024 | £448,800 | £477,167 | 132 |
| 2023 | £455,000 | £499,934 | 137 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 219 |
| 2021 | £367,500 | £465,302 | 281 |
| 2020 | £368,500 | £478,136 | 129 |
| 2019 | £338,700 | £443,955 | 146 |
| 2018 | £332,500 | £443,229 | 159 |
| 2017 | £317,500 | £433,038 | 157 |
| 2016 | £298,500 | £417,604 | 171 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 97 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 90 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 70 |
| 2012 | £261,200 | £384,454 | 58 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 63 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 57 |
| 2009 | £244,200 | £392,554 | 58 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 41 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 95 |
| 2006 | £265,000 | £460,006 | 84 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 84 |
| 2004 | £233,500 | £424,082 | 84 |
| 2003 | £188,000 | £346,342 | 77 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 95 |
| 2001 | £148,800 | £286,060 | 78 |
| 2000 | £133,500 | £261,994 | 69 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 78 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 65 |
| 1997 | £92,000 | £188,673 | 88 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 71 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 59 |
In cash terms the typical ME17 3 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 113%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME17 3 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 1999 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−19.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −19.6% | −21.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in ME17 3. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 134 sales a year over the last five years against 83 before the financial crisis. 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.
What tenants pay around ME17 3
ME17 3 falls under Maidstone, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £370,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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 kind of market ME17 3 is
This is a thin market: 35 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.
Common questions on ME17 3 (Hollingbourne)
How much did a house sell for in ME17 3 (Hollingbourne)?
Are property prices falling in ME17 3 (Hollingbourne)?
Is ME17 3 (Hollingbourne) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME17 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in ME17 right 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, 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.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME17
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME17, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME17 1 | £396,500 | 30 |
| ME17 2 | £380,500 | 24 |
| 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 a home in ME17 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME17 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME17 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME17 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME17 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME17 3.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ME17 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME17 3 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.