The Ridings, Tonbridge house prices are built from 217 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £123,500. Across the 10 years from 2006 to 2016 the median moved +24.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.3%.
Median price paid
£123,500
Change in cash, 2006–2016
+24.6%
Change in real terms
-2.3%
HM Land Registry217 salesLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How The Ridings, Tonbridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Ridings, Tonbridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2016. 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 | 3 | £54,000 | £119,906 |
| 2000s | 8 | £123,975 | £225,846 |
| 2010s | 5 | £158,000 | £222,780 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Ridings, Tonbridge is £175,000 in 2016; the lowest is £49,975 in 1997. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £49,975 to £175,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £105,962, so the real change over the whole record is +130.6% — about +4.49% 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: +24.6% in cash against -2.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 7 | 10 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 56 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £222,500 | £227,337 |
| 14 | 15 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £324,000 | £331,043 |
| 50 | 25 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £181,000 | £184,935 |
| 53a | 13 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 40 | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 47 | 25 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £220,970 |
| 18a | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 51 | 11 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £157,000 | £165,201 |
| 22 | 12 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £211,442 |
| 36 | 5 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £209,950 | £265,259 |
| 14 | 27 May 2021 | Terraced | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| 29 | 23 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 19 | 17 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £188,000 | £243,416 |
| 55 | 9 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| 49a | 28 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £294,295 |
| 51a | 2 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £209,276 |
| 49 | 5 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £294,295 |
| 54a | 7 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £189,000 | £251,881 |
| 27 | 23 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £239,887 |
| 15 | 2 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £335,000 | £446,456 |
| 47 | 29 Sep 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £306,226 |
| 47a | 12 May 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £222,000 | £302,143 |
| 18a | 7 Dec 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £244,307 |
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 The Ridings, Tonbridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 the Ridings | £52,000 (1997) | £255,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 7 the Ridings | £53,000 (1997) | £200,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 56 the Ridings | £147,500 (2007) | £222,500 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.7% |
| 14 the Ridings | £85,500 (2000) | £324,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 50 the Ridings | £48,000 (1997) | £181,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 53A the Ridings | £48,000 (1997) | £190,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 40 the Ridings | £72,000 (1998) | £275,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 47 the Ridings | £55,000 (1997) | £210,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 18A the Ridings | £45,000 (1998) | £165,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 51 the Ridings | £48,000 (1997) | £157,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 22 the Ridings | £41,950 (1997) | £182,500 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.5% |
| 29 the Ridings | £71,000 (2000) | £230,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Ridings, Tonbridge 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 127 | 58.5% | £109,000 | £41,950 – £230,000 |
| Terraced | 68 | 31.3% | £146,500 | £47,000 – £335,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 6.5% | £120,000 | £45,750 – £172,500 |
| Detached | 8 | 3.7% | £103,000 | £57,000 – £302,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Ridings, Tonbridge
125 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 57.6% 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 £109,000 and the median freehold sale £141,000 — a gap of +29.4%. 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 | 125 | 57.6% | £109,000 |
| Freehold | 92 | 42.4% | £141,000 |
A further 5 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 The Ridings, Tonbridge
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 £123,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.55% 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 The Ridings, Tonbridge
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 The Ridings, Tonbridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Ridings, Tonbridge sits below that national figure — -21.6%.
Within Tonbridge the street ranks 987 of 1015 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-50.6%).
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 £41,950 to £335,000. 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.
The Ridings, Tonbridge 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
- Maidstone Road£278,000 median
- Mount Pleasant£213,250 median
- Goudhurst Road£348,000 median
- Warrington Road£247,000 median
- Green Lane£304,975 median
- Station Road£230,000 median
- Whetsted Road£250,000 median
- Bathurst Road£189,950 median
- Commercial Road£206,000 median
- Tutsham Way£217,500 median
- Brenchley Road£400,000 median
- Hale Street£275,000 median
- Howland Road£275,000 median
- Corner Farm Road£205,000 median
- The Shires£148,000 median
- Forest Road£235,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 22 the Ridings8 sales
- 36 the Ridings7 sales
- 20 the Ridings7 sales
- 50 the Ridings6 sales
- 53A the Ridings6 sales
- 9 the Ridings6 sales
- 14 the Ridings5 sales
- 18A the Ridings5 sales
- 19 the Ridings5 sales
- 15 the Ridings5 sales
- 47A the Ridings5 sales
- 37 the Ridings5 sales
- 53 the Ridings5 sales
- 17 the Ridings5 sales
- 54 the Ridings5 sales
- 52A the Ridings5 sales
- 56 the Ridings4 sales
- 51 the Ridings4 sales
- 49 the Ridings4 sales
- 54A the Ridings4 sales
- 27 the Ridings4 sales
- 42 the Ridings4 sales
- 5 the Ridings4 sales
- 18 the Ridings4 sales
Back to Tonbridge house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Ridings, Tonbridge?
The median price paid in The Ridings, Tonbridge across every sale on the register is £123,500. 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 The Ridings, Tonbridge?
217 sales are on record for The Ridings, Tonbridge, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Ridings, Tonbridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +24.6% between 2006 and 2016. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Ridings, Tonbridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,000, set in 2016. 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 The Ridings, Tonbridge?
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 29 May 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, “The Ridings, Tonbridge 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.