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Kings Hill market report ME19, West Malling
The ME19 (Kings Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 14,816 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME19 (West Malling) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME19 (West Malling) came in at £440,000, out of 137 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £481,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,650 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 14,816 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME19 is a postcode district covering West Malling, Kings Hill, Leybourne in West Malling. 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 ME19 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 137 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) ME19 home went for £440,000. The mean is £481,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
ME19 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME19 costs about £4,650 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME19 trades 54% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical ME19 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 137 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 429 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 415 |
| 2023 | £478,700 | £525,974 | 376 |
| 2022 | £463,000 | £542,920 | 509 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 680 |
| 2020 | £415,000 | £538,471 | 408 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 427 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 513 |
| 2017 | £364,000 | £496,459 | 587 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 564 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 545 |
| 2014 | £326,500 | £463,197 | 580 |
| 2013 | £290,000 | £417,281 | 549 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 395 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 377 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 420 |
| 2009 | £260,000 | £417,952 | 329 |
| 2008 | £271,000 | £444,226 | 368 |
| 2007 | £297,000 | £503,795 | 627 |
| 2006 | £288,500 | £500,799 | 576 |
| 2005 | £261,000 | £464,475 | 433 |
| 2004 | £269,500 | £489,465 | 500 |
| 2003 | £232,000 | £427,400 | 439 |
| 2002 | £220,000 | £413,928 | 694 |
| 2001 | £185,000 | £355,653 | 529 |
| 2000 | £166,000 | £325,775 | 440 |
| 1999 | £133,700 | £266,457 | 412 |
| 1998 | £145,000 | £292,693 | 397 |
| 1997 | £119,500 | £245,070 | 491 |
| 1996 | £102,000 | £215,113 | 332 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 338 |
In cash terms the typical ME19 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 125%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME19 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.8%). 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) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £677,500 against £230,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, ME19
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 | £677,500 | 40 | 6,308 |
| Semi-detached | £445,000 | 39 | 3,480 |
| Terraced | £377,500 | 39 | 3,573 |
| Flats | £230,000 | 19 | 1,455 |
How many homes change hands in ME19
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 309 sales completed in ME19. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 530 sales a year before the financial crisis and 373 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.
What kind of market ME19 is
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, ME19 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around ME19
For renting purposes ME19 sits in Tonbridge and Malling. The ONS average private rent there is £1,479 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £440,000 median sold price, £1,479 a month is £17,748 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
Asked and answered: ME19 (Kings Hill)
How much did a house sell for in ME19 (Kings Hill)?
Are property prices falling in ME19 (Kings Hill)?
Is ME19 (Kings Hill) a good place to buy a house?
Are ME19 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
What you could buy in ME19 now
Everything above is what homes in ME19 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 7 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 42% above the ME19 median sold price.
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" 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 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
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
ME19 ranks 17 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.
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.
Inside ME19, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ME19 4 | £470,000 | 59 |
| ME19 5 | £392,500 | 46 |
| ME19 6 | £425,000 | 32 |
How ME19 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 (this report) | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £377,500 | +16% |
| ME3 | £375,000 | +8% |
| ME17 | £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 ME19? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME19, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME19 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME19 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual ME19 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.