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Hollingbourne market report ME17 4, Maidstone
The ME17 4 (Hollingbourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,890 HM Land Registry entries for ME17 4 (Maidstone), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical ME17 4 (Maidstone) home changed hands for £372,000 in 2026 (median of 51 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £387,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,200 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,890 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME17 4 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 4 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 4 sells for
In the ME17 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £372,000, from 51 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £387,600, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
ME17 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of ME17 4 home has cost about £4,200 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 4 trades 31% above the country as a whole.
A typical ME17 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £372,000 | £372,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 165 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 141 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 115 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 225 |
| 2021 | £367,800 | £465,682 | 318 |
| 2020 | £349,000 | £452,835 | 201 |
| 2019 | £332,400 | £435,697 | 183 |
| 2018 | £311,800 | £415,635 | 198 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 197 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 161 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 149 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 155 |
| 2013 | £203,000 | £292,097 | 118 |
| 2012 | £206,000 | £303,206 | 101 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 106 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 170 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 161 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 191 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 186 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 165 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 109 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 141 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 143 |
| 2002 | £166,800 | £313,833 | 190 |
| 2001 | £138,500 | £266,259 | 130 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 156 |
| 1999 | £105,500 | £210,256 | 164 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 93 |
| 1997 | £75,200 | £154,220 | 100 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 102 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical ME17 4 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £372,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 157%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME17 4 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 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME17 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.4% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 4 recorded 51 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 139 sales a year recently, against 153 a year before 2008. 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 4 is
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME17 4 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 4
For renting purposes ME17 4 sits in Maidstone. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £372,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
ME17 4 (Hollingbourne): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in ME17 4 (Hollingbourne)?
Is ME17 4 (Hollingbourne) a good place to buy a house?
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Are ME17 4 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% 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.
- Mitchell Close, Lenham, Lenham
- Newbury House, 30 Lenham Road, Platts Heath, Platts Heath
- Avalon, 10 Whitehall Drive, Kingswood, Kingswood
"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 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 2 | £380,500 | 24 |
| ME17 3 | £370,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full ME17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME17 4? 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 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME17 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME17 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME17 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME17 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual ME17 4 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.