Bower Street, Maidstone house prices are built from 247 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £132,995. Across the 13 years from 2010 to 2023 the median moved +67.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.4%.
Median price paid
£132,995
Change in cash, 2010–2023
+67.7%
Change in real terms
+13.4%
Median per m²
£1,636
HM Land Registry247 sales80 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Bower Street, Maidstone prices moved
The chart tracks the median Bower Street, Maidstone house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | £53,000 | £117,685 |
| 2000s | 8 | £125,000 | £227,713 |
| 2010s | 5 | £204,500 | £288,345 |
| 2020s | 4 | £257,000 | £262,587 |
The highest yearly median on record for Bower Street, Maidstone is £285,000 in 2022; the lowest is £49,000 in 1995. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £49,000 to £280,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,803, so the real change over the whole record is +178.1% — about +3.72% 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: +67.7% in cash against +13.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 | 22 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 121 | 19 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 75 | 21 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £246,000 | £258,851 |
| 20 | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| 5 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 92 | 19 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 12 | 31 May 2023 | Terraced | £262,000 | £283,080 |
| 78 | 26 May 2023 | Terraced | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 123 | 4 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 21 | 21 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 148 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £257,500 | £298,336 |
| 146 | 28 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £231,500 | £268,213 |
| 95 | 21 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £251,000 | £290,805 |
| 24 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 3 | 1 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £456,000 | £528,316 |
| 55 | 11 May 2022 | Terraced | £312,500 | £362,058 |
| 158 | 29 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| Flat 6 Devon Villas, 2 | 16 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| 51 | 8 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £259,000 | £327,231 |
| 73 | 25 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| 147 | 13 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 50 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 45 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 149 | 7 May 2021 | Terraced | £317,500 | £401,142 |
| 12 | 18 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £166,000 | £209,731 |
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 Bower Street, Maidstone values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 Bower Street | £257,500 (2022) | £265,000 (2025) | +1.0% | -3.2% |
| 75 Bower Street | £71,500 (2002) | £246,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.9% |
| 5 Bower Street | £82,500 (1997) | £345,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 12 Bower Street | £166,000 (2021) | £262,000 (2023) | +25.6% | +16.2% |
| 78 Bower Street | £74,000 (2000) | £280,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 123 Bower Street | £146,000 (2020) | £290,000 (2023) | +25.7% | +18.3% |
| 21 Bower Street | £37,000 (1999) | £320,000 (2023) | +9.4% | +6.6% |
| 24 Bower Street | £135,005 (2004) | £350,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 3 Bower Street | £192,000 (2004) | £456,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 55 Bower Street | £58,500 (1999) | £312,500 (2022) | +7.6% | +4.9% |
| 158 Bower Street | £63,000 (1995) | £285,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 6 DEVON VILLAS, 2 Bower Street | £83,000 (2005) | £120,000 (2021) | +2.3% | +0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bower Street, Maidstone 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 | 217 | 87.9% | £137,000 | £37,000 – £365,000 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 6.1% | £156,500 | £53,000 – £456,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 14 | 5.7% | £83,000 | £37,995 – £145,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.4% | £135,000 | £135,000 – £135,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Bower Street, Maidstone
14 of the sales on record are leasehold and 233 freehold — 5.7% 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 £85,250 and the median freehold sale £137,000 — a gap of +60.7%. 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 | 14 | 5.7% | £85,250 |
| Freehold | 233 | 94.3% | £137,000 |
A further 15 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 Bower Street, Maidstone
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 £132,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.66% 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 ME16, 223 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 96 violent, 7 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 39 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.3 times busier.
Against the 175,782 residents the 2021 census counted in Maidstone, that is 1.27 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 Bower Street, Maidstone
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.
14 state and independent schools have a ME16 postcode: 9 primary, 5 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 Maplesden Noakes School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,418 |
| Maidstone Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,254 |
| St Simon Stock Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,148 |
| Oakwood Park Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,100 |
| St Augustine Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 673 |
| Barming Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 480 |
| Allington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 466 |
| West Borough Primary School | Primary | Community school | 456 |
| Brunswick House Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| Palace Wood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Maidstone Barracks Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Barming Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| East Farleigh Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Aylesford Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
Section 09
How Bower Street, Maidstone compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Bower Street, Maidstone sits below that national figure — -15.6%.
Within Maidstone the street ranks 1617 of 1759 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £200,000 (-33.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,636 per square metre, across 80 of the 247 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 £37,000 to £456,000. 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.
Bower Street, Maidstone 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
Streets nearby
- Tonbridge Road£155,000 median
- Upper Fant Road£155,000 median
- St Peters Street£164,750 median
- Wallis Place£150,000 median
- London Road£142,500 median
- Kingfisher Meadow£160,000 median
- Milton Street£150,000 median
- Roseholme£94,500 median
- Clifford Way£181,000 median
- Queens Road£164,000 median
- St Andrews Park£183,000 median
- Fennel Close£194,000 median
- Trevor Drive£225,000 median
- Newbury Avenue£199,995 median
- Beaver Road£198,850 median
- Marigold Way£188,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 120 Bower Street7 sales
- 149 Bower Street6 sales
- 69 Bower Street6 sales
- 147 Bower Street5 sales
- 50 Bower Street5 sales
- 139 Bower Street5 sales
- 138 Bower Street5 sales
- 57 Bower Street5 sales
- 96 Bower Street5 sales
- 5 Bower Street4 sales
- 55 Bower Street4 sales
- 19 Bower Street4 sales
- 105 Bower Street4 sales
- 74 Bower Street4 sales
- 14 Bower Street4 sales
- 78 Bower Street3 sales
- 21 Bower Street3 sales
- 158 Bower Street3 sales
- 43 Bower Street3 sales
- 132 Bower Street3 sales
- 79 Bower Street3 sales
- 110 Bower Street3 sales
- 129 Bower Street3 sales
- 32 Bower Street3 sales
Back to Maidstone house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Bower Street, Maidstone?
The median price paid in Bower Street, Maidstone across every sale on the register is £132,995. 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 Bower Street, Maidstone?
247 sales are on record for Bower Street, Maidstone, the most recent completing on 22 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Bower Street, Maidstone house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +67.7% between 2010 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Bower Street, Maidstone house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, 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 Bower Street, Maidstone?
£1,636 per square metre, from the 80 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 22 Aug 2025. 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, “Bower Street, Maidstone 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.