Highfield Road, Ashford house prices are built from 187 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 11 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +50.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.1%.
Median price paid
£158,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+50.6%
Change in real terms
+9.1%
HM Land Registry187 salesLatest sale 11 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Highfield Road, Ashford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Highfield Road, Ashford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £50,750 | £112,689 |
| 2000s | 10 | £142,000 | £258,682 |
| 2010s | 6 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 2020s | 4 | £300,000 | £306,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Highfield Road, Ashford is £331,250 in 2025; the lowest is £28,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £50,750 to £331,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £110,088, so the real change over the whole record is +207.4% — about +3.95% 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: +50.6% in cash against +9.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £402,000 | £402,000 |
| 119 | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 82 | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 120 | 5 Dec 2025 | Detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 132 | 28 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 102 | 6 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 136 | 17 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 89 | 20 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 91 | 20 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £322,500 | £329,511 |
| 96 | 19 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 108 | 11 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 65 | 13 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £353,000 | £371,440 |
| 114 | 4 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 89 | 12 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| 79 | 19 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 113 | 21 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 8 | 28 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 1 | 11 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 30 | 23 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £151,264 |
| 33 | 24 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £142,500 | £165,099 |
| 93 | 6 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 18 | 2 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £337,000 | £390,444 |
| 74 | 28 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 26 | 3 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £296,000 | £373,978 |
| 68 | 23 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
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 Highfield Road, Ashford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Highfield Road | £337,000 (2022) | £402,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +0.7% |
| 119 Highfield Road | £167,500 (2006) | £330,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 82 Highfield Road | £170,000 (2008) | £340,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 120 Highfield Road | £230,000 (2008) | £415,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 132 Highfield Road | £115,950 (2002) | £375,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 136 Highfield Road | £165,000 (2013) | £320,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.6% |
| 89 Highfield Road | £260,000 (2024) | £340,000 (2025) | +30.8% | +27.0% |
| 108 Highfield Road | £225,000 (2018) | £265,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -1.2% |
| 65 Highfield Road | £55,000 (1995) | £353,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 114 Highfield Road | £92,000 (2001) | £305,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 113 Highfield Road | £50,500 (1996) | £260,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 8 Highfield Road | £103,500 (2001) | £400,000 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Highfield Road, Ashford 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 | 120 | 64.2% | £170,000 | £28,000 – £402,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 38 | 20.3% | £70,000 | £21,000 – £142,500 |
| Terraced | 15 | 8.0% | £260,000 | £68,000 – £340,000 |
| Detached | 14 | 7.5% | £215,000 | £89,500 – £415,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Highfield Road, Ashford
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 148 freehold — 20.9% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £175,750 — a gap of +151.1%. 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 | 39 | 20.9% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 148 | 79.1% | £175,750 |
A further 4 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 Highfield Road, Ashford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Ashford, 52.2% of 63,745 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 249 | 0.4% |
| B | 10,714 | 16.8% |
| C | 22,316 | 35.0% |
| D | 20,420 | 32.0% |
| E | 7,275 | 11.4% |
| F | 2,117 | 3.3% |
| G | 654 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Ashford at £1,244 a month as of Jun 2026 — £891 for a one-bedroom home and £1,401 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.45% 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 TN24, 233 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 85 violent, 4 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 45 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.
Against the 132,747 residents the 2021 census counted in Ashford, that is 1.76 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 Highfield Road, Ashford
The 2021 census counted 132,747 residents in Ashford across 53,583 households. 68.1% of those households own their home and 31.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a TN24 postcode: 7 primary, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highworth Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,553 |
| Towers School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,538 |
| The Norton Knatchbull School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,348 |
| The North School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,237 |
| Willesborough Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 478 |
| East Stour Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 385 |
| Kennington Church of England Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 355 |
| Willesborough Infant School | Primary | Foundation school | 333 |
| St Teresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 214 |
| Goat Lees Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 207 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ashford International Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Wye Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Ham Street Rail Station | Rail | 9.3 km |
| Pluckley Rail Station | Rail | 9.9 km |
Section 09
How Highfield Road, Ashford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Highfield Road, Ashford sits above that national figure — +0.3%.
Within Ashford the street ranks 1231 of 1682 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £195,000 (-19.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £21,000 to £415,000. 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.
Highfield Road, Ashford sits in Ashford, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Ashford at 10.2 times median local earnings of £33,979 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
Streets nearby
- Hythe Road£172,500 median
- Guernsey Way£165,000 median
- Quantock Drive£161,250 median
- Cudworth Road£140,000 median
- Adams Drive£176,000 median
- Osborne Road£160,000 median
- Bybrook Road£135,000 median
- Clarke Crescent£155,000 median
- Mill Court£175,500 median
- Hurst Road£147,000 median
- Gladstone Road£145,000 median
- Nine Acres£120,000 median
- Gordon Close£139,000 median
- Birling Road£128,500 median
- Maidstone Road£245,000 median
- Richmond Meech Drive£150,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 113 Highfield Road5 sales
- 35A Highfield Road5 sales
- 82 Highfield Road4 sales
- 132 Highfield Road4 sales
- 114 Highfield Road4 sales
- 29 Highfield Road4 sales
- 37A Highfield Road4 sales
- 57 Highfield Road4 sales
- 120 Highfield Road3 sales
- 136 Highfield Road3 sales
- 65 Highfield Road3 sales
- 8 Highfield Road3 sales
- 33 Highfield Road3 sales
- 68 Highfield Road3 sales
- 61 Highfield Road3 sales
- 23 Highfield Road3 sales
- 130 Highfield Road3 sales
- 33A Highfield Road3 sales
- 92 Highfield Road3 sales
- 51 Highfield Road3 sales
- 77 Highfield Road3 sales
- 39A Highfield Road3 sales
- 66 Highfield Road3 sales
- 88 Highfield Road3 sales
Back to Ashford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Highfield Road, Ashford?
The median price paid in Highfield Road, Ashford across every sale on the register is £158,000. 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 Highfield Road, Ashford?
187 sales are on record for Highfield Road, Ashford, the most recent completing on 11 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Highfield Road, Ashford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Highfield Road, Ashford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £331,250, set in 2025. 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 Highfield Road, Ashford?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 11 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, “Highfield Road, Ashford 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.