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Paddock Wood market report TN12 6, Tonbridge
The standing TN12 6 (Paddock Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,609 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TN12 6 (Tonbridge) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in TN12 6 (Tonbridge) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 60 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £415,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,609 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
TN12 6 is one sector of TN12 (Tonbridge): 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 TN12 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.
What TN12 6 homes really sell for
Take the 60 registered 2026 sales in TN12 6 and the middle price, the median, is £405,000. The mean lands at £415,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
TN12 6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in TN12 6 have sold for about £4,760 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TN12 6 sits 42% above the national market.
TN12 6'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 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 178 |
| 2024 | £443,000 | £471,000 | 248 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 237 |
| 2022 | £445,000 | £521,813 | 294 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 228 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 153 |
| 2019 | £338,800 | £444,086 | 142 |
| 2018 | £333,500 | £444,562 | 121 |
| 2017 | £322,000 | £439,176 | 129 |
| 2016 | £298,000 | £416,905 | 113 |
| 2015 | £293,000 | £414,009 | 178 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 136 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 107 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 118 |
| 2011 | £224,000 | £338,154 | 139 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 116 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 85 |
| 2008 | £224,500 | £368,003 | 92 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 180 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 225 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 161 |
| 2004 | £199,000 | £361,423 | 254 |
| 2003 | £183,400 | £337,867 | 194 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 209 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 207 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 182 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 323 |
| 1998 | £99,500 | £200,848 | 283 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 217 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 169 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 131 |
In cash terms the typical TN12 6 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. 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 TN12 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 1998 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What TN12 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in TN12 6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 60 sales completed in TN12 6. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 203 sales a year recently, against 202 a year before 2008. 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 tenants pay around TN12 6
The local authority for TN12 6 is Tunbridge Wells, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,045 a month here against £2,440 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Tunbridge Wells
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,517 a month is £18,204 a year, which against the £405,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
TN12 6 (Paddock Wood): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in TN12 6 (Paddock Wood)?
Is TN12 6 (Paddock Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TN12 6 (Paddock Wood)?
What happens to TN12 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in TN12 now
Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TN12 district, not just TN12 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Greenhill, Staplehurst, Staplehurst
- Maidstone Road, Matfield, TN12
- Laurel House Brenchley Road, Brenchley, Tonbridge
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 TN12 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: TN prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the TN area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £375,000 | £520,000 (+39%) | £789,950 (+52%) | £1,140,000 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | £340,000 (+21%) | £415,000 (+22%) | £580,000 (+40%) | £750,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £265,000 | £310,000 (+17%) | £358,115 (+16%) | £463,497 (+29%) | £703,750 (+52%) |
| Flat | £175,000 | £240,000 (+37%) | £350,000 (+46%) | £570,000 (+63%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
TN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in TN12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TN12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TN12 0 | £352,500 | 35 |
| TN12 5 | £435,000 | 17 |
| TN12 7 | £450,000 | 12 |
| TN12 8 | £455,000 | 9 |
| TN12 9 | £513,800 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full TN12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TN12 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in TN12 6: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at TN12 6'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim TN12 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TN12 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TN12 6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.