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Ditton market report ME20, Aylesford
The standing ME20 (Ditton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 11,199 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME20 (Aylesford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in ME20 (Aylesford) sold for £377,500 in 2026, the median of 108 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £401,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,199 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
ME20 is a postcode district covering Aylesford, Ditton, Larkfield in Aylesford. 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 ME20 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.
ME20 sold prices: where the market stands
The ME20 median stands at £377,500 for 2026, built from 108 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £401,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ME20
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME20 costs about £4,220 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME20 sits 32% above the national market.
ME20's median sold price, 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 | £377,500 | £377,500 | 108 |
| 2025 | £388,800 | £398,097 | 388 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 378 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 265 |
| 2022 | £366,000 | £429,177 | 339 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 493 |
| 2020 | £318,000 | £412,612 | 312 |
| 2019 | £295,500 | £387,330 | 302 |
| 2018 | £311,000 | £414,569 | 322 |
| 2017 | £298,200 | £406,715 | 403 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 420 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 403 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 409 |
| 2013 | £197,500 | £284,183 | 297 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 281 |
| 2011 | £194,000 | £292,865 | 240 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 248 |
| 2009 | £174,500 | £280,510 | 222 |
| 2008 | £193,500 | £317,187 | 251 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 604 |
| 2006 | £188,500 | £327,212 | 446 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 390 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 558 |
| 2003 | £164,500 | £303,049 | 459 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 474 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 405 |
| 2000 | £98,000 | £192,325 | 273 |
| 1999 | £82,500 | £164,418 | 279 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 311 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 321 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 309 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 289 |
In cash terms the typical ME20 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £377,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME20 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 2002 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £572,500 against £217,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, ME20
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 | £572,500 | 24 | 1,737 |
| Semi-detached | £400,000 | 40 | 4,459 |
| Terraced | £312,000 | 31 | 3,801 |
| Flats | £217,500 | 13 | 1,200 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.9% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in ME20
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 279 ME20 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 451 sales a year before the financial crisis and 296 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market ME20 is
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, ME20 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around ME20
The local authority for ME20 is Tonbridge and Malling, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £377,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,479 a month (£17,748 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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 people ask about ME20 (Ditton)
Is ME20 (Ditton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME20 (Ditton)?
Are property prices falling in ME20 (Ditton)?
What happens to ME20 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in ME20 today
Everything above is what homes in ME20 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 5 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% below the ME20 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every ME20 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
ME20 ranks 2 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.
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.
Inside ME20, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME20 6 | £381,400 | 64 |
| ME20 7 | £375,000 | 44 |
How ME20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in ME20? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME20's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working ME20: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME20.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME20 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME20 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.