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Kings Hill market report ME19 6, West Malling
The standing ME19 6 (Kings Hill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,792 registered sales in ME19 6 (West Malling) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 6 (West Malling) came in at £425,000, out of 32 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £416,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,792 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like ME19 6 is a single group of streets within ME19 (West Malling), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME19 6 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.
The going rate for a home in ME19 6
Take the 32 registered 2026 sales in ME19 6 and the middle price, the median, is £425,000. The mean lands at £416,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in ME19 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME19 6 costs about £4,670 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 6 49% above the national figure.
A typical ME19 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 120 |
| 2024 | £426,000 | £452,926 | 110 |
| 2023 | £498,000 | £547,180 | 108 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 130 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 150 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 97 |
| 2019 | £349,000 | £457,455 | 96 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 95 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 104 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 99 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 119 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 131 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 113 |
| 2012 | £233,500 | £343,683 | 80 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 104 |
| 2010 | £268,200 | £420,607 | 104 |
| 2009 | £249,000 | £400,270 | 87 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 81 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 137 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 163 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 143 |
| 2004 | £213,800 | £388,303 | 122 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 116 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 195 |
| 2001 | £146,000 | £280,678 | 183 |
| 2000 | £149,500 | £293,394 | 160 |
| 1999 | £118,000 | £235,168 | 153 |
| 1998 | £103,200 | £208,317 | 156 |
| 1997 | £84,600 | £173,498 | 142 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 83 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical ME19 6 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 210%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. 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 ME19 6 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−14.5%). 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) | −5.6% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
ME19 6 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 152 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
How ME19 6 trades
This is a thin market: 32 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. 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.
Rents around ME19 6
ME19 6 falls under Tonbridge and Malling, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,479 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,025 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,466 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Tonbridge and Malling
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £425,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,479 a month (£17,748 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
Common questions on ME19 6 (Kings Hill)
Is ME19 6 (Kings Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME19 6 (Kings Hill)?
Are property prices falling in ME19 6 (Kings Hill)?
Are ME19 6 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
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 6: 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.
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
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.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME19
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME19, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME19 4 | £470,000 | 59 |
| ME19 5 | £392,500 | 46 |
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 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME19 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME19 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME19 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working ME19 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME19 6.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME19 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME19 6 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.