TN12 house prices are built from 15,584 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £250,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +21.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.2%.
Median price paid
£250,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+21.2%
Change in real terms
-13.2%
Median per m²
£4,089
HM Land Registry15,584 sales381 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How TN12 prices moved
The chart tracks the median TN12 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £81,500 | £180,969 |
| 2000s | 10 | £205,000 | £373,450 |
| 2010s | 10 | £270,000 | £380,700 |
| 2020s | 7 | £425,000 | £434,239 |
The highest yearly median on record for TN12 is £465,000 in 2022; the lowest is £75,250 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £75,250 to £400,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £167,091, so the real change over the whole record is +139.4% — about +2.86% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +21.2% in cash against -13.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 SPRING GROVE COTTAGES Goudhurst Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £379,000 | £379,000 |
| 6 Nortons Way | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £362,500 | £362,500 |
| 11 the Shires | 15 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 5 Rosemary Place | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| LANSDOWNE Pixot Hill | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 4 Weavers Close | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £387,500 | £387,500 |
| 21 Old Road | 9 Jun 2026 | Detached | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 2 Longridge Villas | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £525,000 |
| 11 Medway Meadows | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| SOUTHERN LIGHTS Foxhole Lane | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,210,000 | £1,210,000 |
| 6 Chestnut Lane | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £725,000 | £725,000 |
| 9 Blackberry Way | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £612,000 | £612,000 |
| 44 Hazel Close | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 40 Kiln Way | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £326,000 | £326,000 |
| 36 the Ridings | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 127 Snoll Hatch Road | 22 May 2026 | Detached | £655,000 | £655,000 |
| 27 Roundel Way | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £515,000 | £515,000 |
| 92 Pound Road | 22 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 1 Fuggles Close | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £414,500 | £414,500 |
| 60D Maidstone Road | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 46 Whetsted Road | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 9 Northdown Close | 13 May 2026 | Detached | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 17 Rosemary Place | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £212,000 | £212,000 |
| 10 Jaggard Way | 7 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 50 Bathurst Road | 5 May 2026 | Terraced | £257,000 | £257,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to TN12 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 SPRING GROVE COTTAGES Goudhurst Road | £178,500 (2012) | £379,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 5 Rosemary Place | £165,000 (2005) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.9% | 0.0% |
| 11 the Shires | £57,000 (1996) | £325,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| LANSDOWNE Pixot Hill | £82,000 (1996) | £450,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 4 Weavers Close | £270,000 (2020) | £387,500 (2026) | +6.2% | +1.7% |
| 21 Old Road | £166,000 (2004) | £340,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 2 Longridge Villas | £256,000 (2017) | £525,000 (2026) | +8.3% | +4.7% |
| 11 Medway Meadows | £71,000 (1996) | £360,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| SOUTHERN LIGHTS Foxhole Lane | £495,000 (2000) | £1,210,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| 6 Chestnut Lane | £375,000 (2017) | £725,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +4.0% |
| 9 Blackberry Way | £197,500 (1999) | £612,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 44 Hazel Close | £412,500 (2022) | £430,000 (2026) | +1.0% | -2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. TN12 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 5,429 | 34.8% | £241,000 | £14,500 – £1,328,000 |
| Detached | 5,357 | 34.4% | £410,000 | £36,000 – £4,300,000 |
| Terraced | 3,779 | 24.2% | £187,000 | £23,000 – £1,750,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1,019 | 6.5% | £126,000 | £12,000 – £867,500 |
Section 05
How big homes are in TN12
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,388 certificates cover TN12, and their median floor area is 87 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +14.5%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 87 m² | about 936 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 70 m² | about 753 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 116 m² | about 1,249 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 14.6% | 639 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 13.0% | 572 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in TN12
1,160 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14,424 freehold — 7.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £127,750 and the median freehold sale £267,000 — a gap of +109.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1,160 | 7.4% | £127,750 |
| Freehold | 14,424 | 92.6% | £267,000 |
| New build | 2,098 | 13.5% | £400,000 |
| Existing home | 13,486 | 86.5% | £238,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +67.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 892 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in TN12
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Maidstone, 52.3% of 86,401 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 595 | 0.7% |
| B | 15,443 | 17.9% |
| C | 29,119 | 33.7% |
| D | 28,467 | 32.9% |
| E | 9,650 | 11.2% |
| F | 2,414 | 2.8% |
| G | 713 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Maidstone at £1,292 a month as of Jun 2026 — £915 for a one-bedroom home and £1,455 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £250,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.20% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of TN12, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 2 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 175,782 residents the 2021 census counted in Maidstone, that is 0.02 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around TN12
The 2021 census counted 175,782 residents in Maidstone across 71,208 households. 69.3% of those households own their home and 30.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a TN12 postcode: 8 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Academy Mascalls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,227 |
| Leigh Academy Paddock Wood | Primary | Academy converter | 618 |
| Staplehurst School | Primary | Community school | 398 |
| Leigh Academy Marden | Primary | Academy converter | 323 |
| Brenchley and Matfield Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 209 |
| Capel Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| East Peckham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 207 |
| Leigh Academy Horsmonden | Primary | Academy converter | 195 |
| St Margaret's, Collier Street Church of England Voluntary Controlled School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 123 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Marden Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Paddock Wood Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Beltring Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Yalding Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
Section 09
How TN12 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. TN12 sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,089 per square metre, across 381 of the 15,584 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £12,000 to £4,300,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
TN12 sits in Maidstone, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Maidstone at 10.1 times median local earnings of £36,199 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside TN12
- TN12 0£240,000 median
- TN12 5£230,000 median
- TN12 6£230,000 median
- TN12 7£375,000 median
- TN12 8£315,000 median
- TN12 9£282,500 median
The closest districts
- ME1510.9 km · £185,000
- ME1611.8 km · £183,000
- TN912.0 km · £222,995
- TN212.1 km · £252,500
- ME1913.3 km · £294,000
- ME1713.4 km · £265,000
- TN413.5 km · £227,000
- ME1413.7 km · £191,000
This district mostly covers Tonbridge.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in TN12?
The median price paid in TN12 across every sale on the register is £250,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in TN12?
15,584 sales are on record for TN12, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have TN12 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +21.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were TN12 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £465,000, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in TN12?
£4,089 per square metre, from the 381 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “TN12 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.