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Kings Hill market report ME19 5, West Malling
The ME19 5 (Kings Hill) 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: 4,366 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME19 5 (West Malling) 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: a typical ME19 5 (West Malling) home changed hands for £392,500 in 2026 (median of 46 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £497,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,366 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME19 5 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 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 ME19 5 homes really sell for
46 sales were registered in ME19 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £392,500. The mean works out at £497,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in ME19 5
The last five years of sales put ME19 5 at roughly £4,720 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME19 5 runs 38% above it.
ME19 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £392,500 | £392,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 143 |
| 2024 | £391,200 | £415,926 | 122 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 124 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 155 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 201 |
| 2020 | £363,800 | £472,038 | 128 |
| 2019 | £336,000 | £440,416 | 133 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 197 |
| 2017 | £321,200 | £438,085 | 296 |
| 2016 | £342,500 | £479,161 | 254 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 138 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 189 |
| 2013 | £265,000 | £381,309 | 137 |
| 2012 | £242,200 | £356,488 | 136 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 95 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 101 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 62 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 73 |
| 2007 | £262,500 | £445,273 | 130 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 132 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 113 |
| 2004 | £221,000 | £401,379 | 121 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 125 |
| 2002 | £179,000 | £336,787 | 147 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 145 |
| 2000 | £124,500 | £244,331 | 126 |
| 1999 | £107,200 | £213,644 | 110 |
| 1998 | £114,000 | £230,117 | 107 |
| 1997 | £89,500 | £183,546 | 145 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 119 |
| 1995 | £81,200 | £176,516 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical ME19 5 home went from £81,200 in 1995 to £392,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME19 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 1998 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.8%). 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) | −12.8% | −14.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 46 ME19 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 118 sales a year recently, against 130 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.
How ME19 5 trades
This is a thin market: 46 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within ME19, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of ME19 5
The local authority for ME19 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 £392,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,479 a month (£17,748 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
ME19 5 (Kings Hill): the questions that come up
Is ME19 5 (Kings Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME19 5 (Kings Hill)?
Are property prices falling in ME19 5 (Kings Hill)?
What happens to ME19 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
ME19's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 7 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME19 district, not just ME19 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 4 | £470,000 | 59 |
| 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.
Selling a home in ME19 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME19 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME19 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME19 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME19 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME19 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME19 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.