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Hollingbourne market report ME17, Maidstone
The standing ME17 (Hollingbourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 13,117 HM Land Registry entries for ME17 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for ME17 (Maidstone) is £375,000, from 140 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £409,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,250 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 13,117 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME17 is a postcode district covering Hollingbourne, Hucking, Harrietsham 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 ME17 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.
ME17 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 140 registered 2026 sales in ME17 and the middle price, the median, is £375,000. The mean lands at £409,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in ME17
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME17 costs about £4,250 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME17 sits 32% above the national market.
ME17's median sold price, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 140 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 503 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 415 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 384 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 616 |
| 2021 | £378,000 | £478,597 | 877 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 486 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 449 |
| 2018 | £343,000 | £457,225 | 554 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 564 |
| 2016 | £305,000 | £426,698 | 499 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 398 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 442 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 324 |
| 2012 | £219,000 | £322,341 | 250 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 275 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 326 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 310 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 315 |
| 2007 | £249,200 | £422,713 | 474 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 449 |
| 2005 | £222,500 | £395,960 | 363 |
| 2004 | £212,500 | £385,942 | 397 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 387 |
| 2002 | £165,500 | £311,387 | 463 |
| 2001 | £142,500 | £273,949 | 381 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 372 |
| 1999 | £116,000 | £231,182 | 412 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 327 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 388 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 303 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 274 |
In cash terms the typical ME17 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME17 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 (+30.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £520,000 against £205,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, ME17
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 | £520,000 | 43 | 5,216 |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | 53 | 4,411 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 35 | 2,641 |
| Flats | £205,000 | 9 | 849 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.4% | −9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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
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.
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 344 ME17 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 412 sales a year recently, against 411 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.
Reading the ME17 market
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, ME17 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of ME17
The local authority for ME17 is Maidstone, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £375,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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 (Hollingbourne): the questions that come up
Is ME17 (Hollingbourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME17 (Hollingbourne)?
Are property prices falling in ME17 (Hollingbourne)?
Are ME17 prices heading up or down?
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 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
ME17's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in ME17 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 45 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 31% above the ME17 median sold price.
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
"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 →
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
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME17 ranks 18 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside ME17, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME17 1 | £396,500 | 30 |
| ME17 2 | £380,500 | 24 |
| ME17 3 | £370,000 | 35 |
| ME17 4 | £372,000 | 51 |
How ME17 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 (this report) | £375,000 | -1% |
| ME16 | £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 in ME17? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME17's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME17 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual ME17 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.
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.