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Kings Hill market report ME19 4, West Malling
The ME19 4 (Kings Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,658 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME19 4 (West Malling) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME19 4 (West Malling) came in at £470,000, out of 59 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £503,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,600 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,658 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME19 4 is one sector of ME19 (West Malling): 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 ME19 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.
ME19 4 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for ME19 4 is £470,000, taken from 59 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £503,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in ME19 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME19 4 costs about £4,600 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ME19 4 65% above the national figure.
ME19 4's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £550,000 | £563,152 | 166 |
| 2024 | £520,000 | £552,867 | 183 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 144 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 224 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 329 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 183 |
| 2019 | £438,000 | £574,113 | 198 |
| 2018 | £415,000 | £553,203 | 221 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 187 |
| 2016 | £445,000 | £622,559 | 211 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 288 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 260 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 299 |
| 2012 | £330,000 | £485,719 | 179 |
| 2011 | £326,000 | £492,135 | 178 |
| 2010 | £326,000 | £511,252 | 215 |
| 2009 | £280,000 | £450,102 | 180 |
| 2008 | £288,800 | £473,404 | 214 |
| 2007 | £320,500 | £543,657 | 360 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 281 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 177 |
| 2004 | £315,000 | £572,102 | 257 |
| 2003 | £288,000 | £530,566 | 198 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 352 |
| 2001 | £235,500 | £452,737 | 201 |
| 2000 | £230,000 | £451,375 | 154 |
| 1999 | £178,000 | £354,745 | 149 |
| 1998 | £179,200 | £361,728 | 134 |
| 1997 | £152,800 | £313,362 | 204 |
| 1996 | £145,000 | £305,799 | 130 |
| 1995 | £128,000 | £278,252 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical ME19 4 home went from £128,000 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 69%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME19 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 2000 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.5% | −16.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in ME19 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 59 sales completed in ME19 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 155 a year over the last five. 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.
The rental side of ME19 4
The local authority for ME19 4 is Tonbridge and Malling, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,479 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,025 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,466, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tonbridge and Malling
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £470,000 median sold price, £1,479 a month is £17,748 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
How ME19 4 trades
This is a thin market: 59 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.
What people ask about ME19 4 (Kings Hill)
How much did a house sell for in ME19 4 (Kings Hill)?
Are property prices falling in ME19 4 (Kings Hill)?
Is ME19 4 (Kings Hill) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME19 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in ME19 today
Turning to what is actually available: 7 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME19 district, not just ME19 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 ME19 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME19
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME19, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME19 5 | £392,500 | 46 |
| ME19 6 | £425,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full ME19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME19 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ME19 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME19 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME19 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME19 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME19 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME19 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME19 4 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.