Local market reports › TN area › TN18
Hawkhurst market report TN18, Cranbrook
The standing TN18 (Hawkhurst) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,486 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in TN18 (Cranbrook) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for TN18 (Cranbrook) is £470,000, from 32 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £552,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,620 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,486 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
TN18 is a postcode district covering Hawkhurst, Sandhurst in Cranbrook. 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 TN18 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.
TN18 sold prices: where the market stands
The TN18 median stands at £470,000 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £552,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in TN18
Measured by floor area, the last five years of TN18 sales average about £4,620 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts TN18 65% above the country at large.
A typical TN18 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £408,200 | £417,961 | 86 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 83 |
| 2023 | £467,700 | £513,888 | 86 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 110 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 176 |
| 2020 | £341,200 | £442,714 | 92 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 120 |
| 2018 | £387,000 | £515,878 | 117 |
| 2017 | £377,500 | £514,872 | 108 |
| 2016 | £306,000 | £428,097 | 101 |
| 2015 | £313,800 | £443,399 | 96 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 127 |
| 2013 | £247,000 | £355,408 | 86 |
| 2012 | £255,000 | £375,328 | 74 |
| 2011 | £242,500 | £366,082 | 80 |
| 2010 | £255,000 | £399,906 | 76 |
| 2009 | £248,100 | £398,823 | 94 |
| 2008 | £242,200 | £397,017 | 72 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 125 |
| 2006 | £241,000 | £418,345 | 163 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 162 |
| 2004 | £198,500 | £360,515 | 116 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 128 |
| 2002 | £142,500 | £268,113 | 149 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 130 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 115 |
| 1999 | £95,200 | £189,729 | 152 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 103 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 135 |
| 1996 | £67,200 | £141,722 | 110 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical TN18 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 154%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the TN18 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 2001 (+42.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−24.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +15.1% | +12.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +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, 35% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £695,000 against £281,200 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, TN18
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 | £588,000 | 13 | 1,229 |
| Semi-detached | £390,800 | 12 | 1,090 |
| Terraced | £320,500 | 6 | 889 |
| Flats | £281,200 (2025) | – | 270 |
How many homes change hands in TN18
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 66 TN18 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 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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 rental side of TN18
TN18 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.
The shape of the TN18 market
This is a thin market: 66 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.
What people ask about TN18 (Hawkhurst)
Are property prices falling in TN18 (Hawkhurst)?
Is TN18 (Hawkhurst) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TN18 (Hawkhurst)?
What happens to TN18 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in TN18 today
Everything above is what homes in TN18 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 5 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 193% above the TN18 median sold price.
0% 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.
See every TN18 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.
Moving up a bedroom in TN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the TN area, 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
TN18 ranks 15 of 40 in the TN 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 TN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TN18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TN18 4 | £470,000 | 23 |
| TN18 5 | £420,000 | 9 |
How TN18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TN7 | £762,500 | +2% |
| TN3 | £691,500 | +5% |
| TN14 | £607,500 | +16% |
| TN13 | £600,000 | +2% |
| TN11 | £585,000 | +11% |
| TN20 | £534,900 | -8% |
| TN32 | £515,000 | +24% |
| TN26 | £506,200 | +19% |
| TN15 | £500,000 | +5% |
| TN19 | £500,000 | +22% |
| TN5 | £488,800 | +0% |
| TN10 | £470,000 | +6% |
| TN18 (this report) | £470,000 | +8% |
| TN27 | £460,000 | +0% |
| TN6 | £450,000 | +10% |
| TN16 | £447,500 | +4% |
| TN17 | £429,000 | -11% |
| TN2 | £427,500 | -11% |
| TN36 | £421,200 | +12% |
| TN12 | £414,000 | +0% |
| TN1 | £413,000 | +23% |
| TN8 | £412,000 | -6% |
| TN4 | £407,500 | +7% |
| TN22 | £405,000 | +0% |
Thinking of selling in TN18? 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 TN18'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 TN18: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim TN18.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TN18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every TN18 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.