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Wateringbury market report ME18 5, Maidstone
The ME18 5 (Wateringbury) 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: 2,217 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME18 5 (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 typical home in ME18 5 (Maidstone) sold for £455,000 in 2026, the median of 35 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £502,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,217 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like ME18 5 is a single group of streets within ME18 (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 ME18 5 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 buyers actually paid in ME18 5
The 2026 median for ME18 5 is £455,000, taken from 35 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £502,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in ME18 5
A square metre of ME18 5 home has cost about £4,390 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME18 5 sits 60% above the national market.
A typical ME18 5 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 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £447,000 | £457,689 | 45 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 45 |
| 2023 | £435,000 | £477,959 | 49 |
| 2022 | £492,500 | £577,512 | 62 |
| 2021 | £432,500 | £547,601 | 99 |
| 2020 | £393,800 | £510,964 | 60 |
| 2019 | £408,500 | £535,446 | 52 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 60 |
| 2017 | £325,500 | £443,949 | 60 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 56 |
| 2015 | £375,000 | £529,875 | 69 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 81 |
| 2013 | £276,500 | £397,856 | 56 |
| 2012 | £260,000 | £382,688 | 58 |
| 2011 | £295,000 | £445,337 | 31 |
| 2010 | £248,000 | £388,928 | 59 |
| 2009 | £266,000 | £427,597 | 53 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 35 |
| 2007 | £278,000 | £471,565 | 85 |
| 2006 | £237,000 | £411,402 | 93 |
| 2005 | £243,000 | £432,442 | 60 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 87 |
| 2003 | £201,000 | £370,291 | 88 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 113 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 109 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 63 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 79 |
| 1998 | £136,000 | £274,526 | 132 |
| 1997 | £115,000 | £235,842 | 102 |
| 1996 | £99,800 | £210,474 | 72 |
| 1995 | £78,500 | £170,647 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical ME18 5 home went from £78,500 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 167%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME18 5 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 2001 (+36.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.9%). 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) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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
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.
The register shows 35 ME18 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 87 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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.
Rents around ME18 5
The local authority for ME18 5 is Tonbridge and Malling, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,479 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,025 a month here against £2,466 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tonbridge and Malling
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £455,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,479 a month (£17,748 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.
What kind of market ME18 5 is
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME18 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the ME18 district median, ME18 5 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about ME18 5 (Wateringbury)
Are property prices falling in ME18 5 (Wateringbury)?
Is ME18 5 (Wateringbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME18 5 (Wateringbury)?
Where do ME18 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
ME18's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 9 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME18 district, not just ME18 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 ME18 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 ME18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 6 | £555,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full ME18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME18 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ME18 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME18 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME18 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME18 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME18 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME18 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME18 5 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.