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Hawkhurst market report TN18 4, Cranbrook
The TN18 4 (Hawkhurst) 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: 2,284 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TN18 4 (Cranbrook) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 23 registered 2026 sales put the TN18 4 (Cranbrook) median at £470,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £518,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,710 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,284 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
TN18 4 is one sector of TN18 (Cranbrook): 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 TN18 4 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 buyers actually paid in TN18 4
23 sales were registered in TN18 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £470,000. The mean works out at £518,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
TN18 4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, TN18 4 homes have averaged around £4,710 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TN18 4 trades 65% above the country as a whole.
TN18 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 59 |
| 2024 | £353,000 | £375,312 | 54 |
| 2023 | £386,200 | £424,340 | 58 |
| 2022 | £351,000 | £411,588 | 68 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 120 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 49 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 69 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 81 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 69 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 67 |
| 2015 | £262,000 | £370,206 | 58 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 83 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 55 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 50 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 59 |
| 2010 | £207,500 | £325,413 | 49 |
| 2009 | £227,000 | £364,904 | 61 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 42 |
| 2007 | £225,800 | £383,020 | 88 |
| 2006 | £207,500 | £360,193 | 114 |
| 2005 | £192,500 | £342,572 | 112 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 79 |
| 2003 | £159,000 | £292,917 | 83 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 111 |
| 2001 | £116,400 | £223,773 | 74 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 78 |
| 1999 | £85,200 | £169,799 | 100 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 66 |
| 1997 | £71,500 | £146,632 | 81 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 71 |
| 1995 | £75,500 | £164,125 | 53 |
In cash terms the typical TN18 4 home went from £75,500 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TN18 4 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 2021 (+51.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−27.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What TN18 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +28.8% | +25.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
Sales activity in TN18 4
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.
The register shows 23 TN18 4 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 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
The shape of the TN18 4 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes TN18 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 TN18 4
TN18 4 falls under Tunbridge Wells, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,517 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,045 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,440, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Tunbridge Wells
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £470,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,517 a month (£18,204 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 TN18 4 (Hawkhurst)
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What happens to TN18 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 TN18 today
Turning to what is actually available: 5 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TN18 district, not just TN18 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, TN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TN18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TN18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TN18 5 | £420,000 | 9 |
Zoom out to the full TN18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TN18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in TN18 4: 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 TN18 4'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 TN18 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TN18 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual TN18 4 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.