Discovery Drive, West Malling house prices are built from 225 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 26 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £355,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +41.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.8%.
Median price paid
£355,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+41.9%
Change in real terms
+2.8%
HM Land Registry225 salesLatest sale 26 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Discovery Drive, West Malling prices moved
The chart tracks the median Discovery Drive, West Malling house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 8 | £294,750 | £536,948 |
| 2010s | 10 | £400,000 | £564,000 |
| 2020s | 3 | £520,000 | £531,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Discovery Drive, West Malling is £772,500 in 2025; the lowest is £247,500 in 2001. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £315,000 to £772,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £630,000, so the real change over the whole record is +25.3% — about +0.91% 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: +41.9% in cash against +2.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 26 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £370,500 | £370,500 |
| 141 | 26 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £585,000 | £585,000 |
| 67 | 18 Feb 2026 | Detached | £900,000 | £900,000 |
| 117 | 21 Nov 2025 | Detached | £855,000 | £873,587 |
| 125 | 30 Sep 2025 | Detached | £915,000 | £934,891 |
| 34 | 3 Sep 2025 | Detached | £772,500 | £789,293 |
| 205 | 29 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £472,500 | £482,772 |
| 38 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £570,000 | £582,391 |
| 60 | 12 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| Highbury House, 129 | 26 Jul 2024 | Detached | £840,000 | £883,881 |
| 97 | 28 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £750,000 | £810,345 |
| 165 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 12 | 7 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £645,000 | £747,288 |
| 58 | 10 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 28 | 22 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| 66 | 24 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 153 | 24 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £520,000 | £656,989 |
| 69 | 29 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £263,000 | £332,285 |
| 89 | 9 Aug 2021 | Detached | £850,000 | £1,073,925 |
| 79 | 29 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 105 | 24 Jun 2021 | Detached | £815,000 | £1,029,704 |
| 58 | 23 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £370,000 | £467,473 |
| 127 | 22 Jun 2021 | Detached | £750,000 | £947,581 |
| 44 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £402,000 | £507,903 |
| 113 | 26 Feb 2021 | Detached | £925,000 | £1,168,683 |
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 Discovery Drive, West Malling values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 Discovery Drive | £257,950 (2007) | £370,500 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 141 Discovery Drive | £295,000 (2004) | £585,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 67 Discovery Drive | £360,000 (2001) | £900,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 117 Discovery Drive | £322,500 (2000) | £855,000 (2025) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 125 Discovery Drive | £415,000 (2002) | £915,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
| 34 Discovery Drive | £445,000 (2006) | £772,500 (2025) | +2.9% | 0.0% |
| 205 Discovery Drive | £369,995 (2014) | £472,500 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.9% |
| 38 Discovery Drive | £288,950 (2006) | £570,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 60 Discovery Drive | £249,950 (2007) | £400,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 97 Discovery Drive | £375,000 (2002) | £750,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 165 Discovery Drive | £285,995 (2014) | £360,000 (2023) | +2.6% | -0.6% |
| 12 Discovery Drive | £230,000 (2002) | £645,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Discovery Drive, West Malling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 109 | 48.4% | £460,000 | £230,000 – £925,000 |
| Terraced | 51 | 22.7% | £300,000 | £198,000 – £570,000 |
| Semi-detached | 46 | 20.4% | £323,000 | £212,500 – £750,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 19 | 8.4% | £185,000 | £125,000 – £265,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Discovery Drive, West Malling
19 of the sales on record are leasehold and 206 freehold — 8.4% 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 £185,000 and the median freehold sale £370,250 — a gap of +100.1%. 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 | 19 | 8.4% | £185,000 |
| Freehold | 206 | 91.6% | £370,250 |
| New build | 96 | 42.7% | £295,000 |
| Existing home | 129 | 57.3% | £436,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -32.3%. 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 3 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 Discovery Drive, West Malling
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Tonbridge and Malling, 50.0% of 57,194 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 484 | 0.8% |
| B | 10,037 | 17.5% |
| C | 18,085 | 31.6% |
| D | 19,300 | 33.7% |
| E | 7,060 | 12.3% |
| F | 1,680 | 2.9% |
| G | 548 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Tonbridge and Malling at £1,481 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,026 for a one-bedroom home and £1,616 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £355,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.01% 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 ME19, 32 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 15 violent, 0 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.2 times quieter.
Against the 132,201 residents the 2021 census counted in Tonbridge and Malling, that is 0.24 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 Discovery Drive, West Malling
The 2021 census counted 132,201 residents in Tonbridge and Malling across 53,571 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a ME19 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Malling School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,051 |
| The Discovery School | Primary | Community school | 634 |
| Kings Hill School Primary and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 472 |
| Valley Invicta Primary School At Leybourne Chase | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 230 |
| Valley Invicta Primary School At Kings Hill | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 226 |
| Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Ryarsh Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Offham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 201 |
| West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language Srp | Primary | Academy converter | 191 |
| More Park Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 183 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| West Malling Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| East Malling Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| New Hythe Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Aylesford Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How Discovery Drive, West Malling compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Discovery Drive, West Malling sits above that national figure — +125.4%.
Within West Malling the street ranks 153 of 373 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £294,000 (+20.7%).
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 £125,000 to £925,000. 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.
Discovery Drive, West Malling sits in Tonbridge and Malling, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Tonbridge and Malling at 12.0 times median local earnings of £34,735 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
- London Road£362,500 median
- Lapins Lane£203,975 median
- Willowmead£168,500 median
- Hazen Road£300,000 median
- Hawley Drive£260,000 median
- Braeburn Way£349,000 median
- Mill Street£259,500 median
- Chatfield Way£212,950 median
- Beacon Avenue£420,998 median
- Roundhay£172,000 median
- Mitchell Road£283,750 median
- High Street£272,750 median
- Offham Road£303,000 median
- Bramley Way£200,000 median
- Bridgewater Place£245,000 median
- Baywell£219,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 67 Discovery Drive5 sales
- 87 Discovery Drive5 sales
- 34 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 38 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 58 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 28 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 153 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 79 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 127 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 113 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 74 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 129 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 63 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 71 Discovery Drive4 sales
- 62 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 60 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 97 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 165 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 66 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 69 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 105 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 44 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 24 Discovery Drive3 sales
- 73 Discovery Drive3 sales
Back to West Malling house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Discovery Drive, West Malling?
The median price paid in Discovery Drive, West Malling across every sale on the register is £355,000. 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 Discovery Drive, West Malling?
225 sales are on record for Discovery Drive, West Malling, the most recent completing on 26 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Discovery Drive, West Malling house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +41.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Discovery Drive, West Malling house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £772,500, 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 Discovery Drive, West Malling?
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 26 Mar 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, “Discovery Drive, West Malling 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.