Maidstone House Prices: Up Just £424 in a Year to £352,191

The average home in Maidstone borough was worth £352,191 in June, £424 more than a year earlier. That is a rise of 0.1%. On a house worth more than a third of a million pounds, £424 is not a movement anyone will feel.

The figure comes from HM Land Registry’s UK House Price Index for June 2026, published on 19 August (UK House Price Index, Maidstone). It is built from completed sales registered with the Land Registry, not asking prices, and it is a mean average, not a median, so a handful of large sales pull it upward.

Maidstone is the slow one in its own county

Over the same twelve months, Kent as a whole added 2.1% and England 1.8%. Maidstone managed 0.1%. Only one Kent neighbour did worse, and it did much worse.

Figures for every area above are from the same June 2026 release (UK House Price Index).

Which homes went up, and which went down

The flat headline hides two markets moving in opposite directions.

Semis and terraces, the bulk of the borough’s stock, each gained 1.2%. Detached homes lost 0.8%: the average fell from £614,614 to £609,810, a drop of £4,804. Flats lost 2.1%, and they have now been falling for some time: the same measure showed flats down 2.9% in the year to May and down 1.2% in the year to June 2025.

A first-time buyer paid an average of £291,856, up 0.4% on the year.

The town is still worth less than it was in January 2023

The index puts Maidstone at 98.3, where January 2023 equals 100. Three and a half years on, the average Maidstone home is worth slightly less than it was then, in cash terms and before any allowance for inflation. England sits at 102.6 over the same period, and Kent at 96.6.

The month-on-month direction is down as well. May’s average, as now published, was £353,240; June’s is £352,191, a fall of 0.3%.

Two cautions about these numbers

• Early figures move. June is a first estimate, and the Land Registry revises each month as more sales are registered. When we read the same series on 19 August, before the June release, May showed £352,309 and an annual rise of 0.4%. In this release May has been revised up to £353,240 and 0.7%. June’s £352,191 will change too.
• A mean is not a typical house. The borough average blends a £180,000 flat in the town centre with a £610,000 detached house in the villages. Our Maidstone house prices page breaks the borough down further and explains why portal averages read higher.

What it means for you

• If you are selling a flat, price on the market you are in, not the one you bought into. Flats are the only Maidstone type that has fallen in each of the last two annual comparisons.
• If you are selling a detached house, the same applies. Detached prices turned negative this year after rising 4.2% in the year to June 2025.
• If you are buying a semi or a terrace, you are in the part of the market still moving up, though 1.2% a year is slow enough that a few months’ delay costs little.
• If you are remortgaging, your lender’s valuation will reflect a flat market. A house bought in Maidstone in early 2023 may value at or below what was paid for it.

For the practical side of moving locally, see our guides to council tax bands, bin collection days and planning applications.

Sources

• HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index: Maidstone, June 2025 to June 2026 (every Maidstone figure above)
• HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index (Kent, England, Swale, Tonbridge and Malling, Medway, Ashford and Tunbridge Wells figures, same June 2026 release)
• UK House Price Index reports and methodology, GOV.UK (how the index is built, and why it is revised)