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Bethersden market report TN26 3, Ashford

The standing TN26 3 (Bethersden) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,064 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in TN26 3 (Ashford) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: a typical TN26 3 (Ashford) home changed hands for £506,200 in 2026 (median of 12 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £555,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,270 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,064 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

A postcode sector like TN26 3 is a single group of streets within TN26 (Ashford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What buyers actually paid in TN26 3

Take the 12 registered 2026 sales in TN26 3 and the middle price, the median, is £506,200. The mean lands at £555,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

House prices per square metre in TN26 3

Per square metre, TN26 3 homes have averaged around £4,270 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts TN26 3 78% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical TN26 3 home went from £96,000 in 1995 to £506,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+44.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−24.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

The turnover behind the prices

TN26 3 recorded 12 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 76 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

The rental side of TN26 3

The local authority for TN26 3 is Ashford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,243 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £890 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,033 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£1,243 a month is £14,916 a year, which against the £506,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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.

The shape of the TN26 3 market

Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes TN26 3 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.

What people ask about TN26 3 (Bethersden)

Where do TN26 3 prices go next?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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.

TN26's current homes for sale

What another bedroom costs in TN

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the TN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in TN26

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TN26, one report each:

Zoom out to the full TN26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TN26 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in TN26 3: what the record supports

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TN26 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual TN26 3 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.