Imperial Way, Ashford house prices are built from 336 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £189,951. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +89.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +35.9%.
Median price paid
£189,951
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+89.8%
Change in real terms
+35.9%
Median per m²
£2,320
HM Land Registry336 sales92 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Imperial Way, Ashford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Imperial Way, Ashford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £163,500 | £297,849 |
| 2010s | 10 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 5 | £322,500 | £329,511 |
The highest yearly median on record for Imperial Way, Ashford is £376,500 in 2022; the lowest is £155,000 in 2003. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £155,000 to £362,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £292,962, so the real change over the whole record is +23.7% — about +0.93% 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: +89.8% in cash against +35.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 25 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £405,000 |
| 142 | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 140 | 23 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £362,500 | £362,500 |
| 103 | 18 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 77 | 13 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 24 | 18 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £338,000 | £345,348 |
| 92a | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 120 | 14 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £322,500 | £329,511 |
| 81 | 27 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £186,467 |
| 57 | 29 Nov 2024 | Detached | £417,500 | £439,310 |
| 95 | 25 Nov 2024 | Detached | £493,000 | £518,754 |
| 64 | 28 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £322,500 | £339,347 |
| 80b | 8 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 45 | 26 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 66 | 25 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 62 | 4 May 2023 | Detached | £498,000 | £538,069 |
| 19 | 16 Dec 2022 | Detached | £540,000 | £625,637 |
| 150 | 24 Oct 2022 | Detached | £525,000 | £608,258 |
| 98 | 16 Sep 2022 | Detached | £510,000 | £590,879 |
| 93 | 12 Sep 2022 | Detached | £516,000 | £597,831 |
| 103 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £338,000 | £391,602 |
| 81 | 12 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £181,000 | £209,704 |
| 80a | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| 115 | 30 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £337,000 | £390,444 |
| 16 | 18 Mar 2022 | Detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
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 Imperial Way, Ashford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 Imperial Way | £240,000 (2006) | £405,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 142 Imperial Way | £186,000 (2004) | £370,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 140 Imperial Way | £185,000 (2003) | £362,500 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 103 Imperial Way | £162,000 (2004) | £345,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 77 Imperial Way | £105,000 (2006) | £160,000 (2026) | +2.1% | -0.8% |
| 24 Imperial Way | £170,000 (2004) | £338,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 92A Imperial Way | £149,950 (2005) | £275,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.1% |
| 120 Imperial Way | £162,500 (2004) | £322,500 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 81 Imperial Way | £120,000 (2006) | £182,500 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
| 57 Imperial Way | £260,000 (2007) | £417,500 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 95 Imperial Way | £250,000 (2005) | £493,000 (2024) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 64 Imperial Way | £161,000 (2005) | £322,500 (2024) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Imperial Way, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 103 | 30.7% | £179,000 | £111,000 – £345,000 |
| Semi-detached | 96 | 28.6% | £190,000 | £121,995 – £405,000 |
| Detached | 87 | 25.9% | £249,950 | £149,950 – £540,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 50 | 14.9% | £128,000 | £90,000 – £183,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Imperial Way, Ashford
49 of the sales on record are leasehold and 287 freehold — 14.6% 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 £128,000 and the median freehold sale £200,000 — a gap of +56.3%. 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 | 49 | 14.6% | £128,000 |
| Freehold | 287 | 85.4% | £200,000 |
| New build | 132 | 39.3% | £165,000 |
| Existing home | 204 | 60.7% | £207,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.6%. 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 11 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 Imperial Way, 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 £189,951 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.86% 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 TN23, 327 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 120 violent, 5 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 70 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.
Against the 132,747 residents the 2021 census counted in Ashford, that is 2.46 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 Imperial Way, 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.
14 state and independent schools have a TN23 postcode: 12 primary, 1 all-through, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The John Wallis Church of England Academy | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,650 |
| Furley Park Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 504 |
| Beaver Green Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 483 |
| Chilmington Green School | Secondary | Free schools | 449 |
| Ashford Oaks Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 443 |
| Great Chart Primary School | Primary | Community school | 424 |
| The John Wesley Church of England Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 421 |
| Repton Manor Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 420 |
| Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 419 |
| Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 418 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ashford International Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Wye Rail Station | Rail | 7.2 km |
| Pluckley Rail Station | Rail | 7.8 km |
| Ham Street Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
Section 09
How Imperial Way, Ashford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Imperial Way, Ashford sits above that national figure — +20.6%.
Within Ashford the street ranks 1006 of 1682 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £195,000 (-2.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,320 per square metre, across 92 of the 336 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 £90,000 to £540,000. 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.
Imperial Way, 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
- Manorfield£106,000 median
- Ashford Road£285,000 median
- Beaver Road£125,000 median
- Wood Lane£145,000 median
- Kingsnorth Road£158,000 median
- Christchurch Road£147,250 median
- Lakemead£125,000 median
- Manor House Drive£142,000 median
- Godinton Road£131,000 median
- Smithy Drive£141,500 median
- Bryony Drive£184,500 median
- Acorn Close£179,495 median
- Beaver Lane£138,000 median
- Longacre Road£93,498 median
- Falcon Way£103,000 median
- Springwood Drive£114,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 77 Imperial Way7 sales
- 103 Imperial Way5 sales
- 120 Imperial Way5 sales
- 81 Imperial Way5 sales
- 92 Imperial Way5 sales
- 130 Imperial Way5 sales
- 69 Imperial Way5 sales
- 84 Imperial Way5 sales
- 92A Imperial Way4 sales
- 64 Imperial Way4 sales
- 66 Imperial Way4 sales
- 115 Imperial Way4 sales
- 11 Imperial Way4 sales
- 112 Imperial Way4 sales
- 34 Imperial Way4 sales
- 121 Imperial Way4 sales
- 82 Imperial Way4 sales
- 61 Imperial Way4 sales
- 76 Imperial Way4 sales
- 148 Imperial Way4 sales
- 114 Imperial Way4 sales
- 59 Imperial Way3 sales
- 142 Imperial Way3 sales
- 24 Imperial Way3 sales
Back to Ashford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Imperial Way, Ashford?
The median price paid in Imperial Way, Ashford across every sale on the register is £189,951. 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 Imperial Way, Ashford?
336 sales are on record for Imperial Way, Ashford, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Imperial Way, Ashford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +89.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +35.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Imperial Way, Ashford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £376,500, 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 Imperial Way, Ashford?
£2,320 per square metre, from the 92 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 25 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, “Imperial Way, 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.