General

The house type which performed the best were detached homes which saw growth of 6.9 percent.

The average house price in Malling in 2020 was 6.4 percent higher than it was in 2019.

It won’t come as any massive shock that houses are generally worth more than flats in our area. However, when it comes to the movements over time, these two broad types of property do not always behave similarly. Here we see how flats and houses have varied in price.

The house type which performed the best were detached homes which saw growth of 3.6 percent.

The property market fluctuates on a seasonal basis, and this is particularly the case for sales rates. This chart shows how the market has changed over the course of the last few months. The most recent periods are estimates based on the previous year’s pattern.

The average house price in West Hampstead in 2020 was 3.5 percent higher than it was in 2019.

In The Weald, the gap was £82,700 in 2017. By the autumn of 2020, it had grown to £96,100, equivalent to a change of £13,400.

If a transaction happens after 31st of March 2021, the average stamp duty bill rises from nil to £9,885.

We were interested in looking at the starting prices of the top five per cent of properties in the local market. This chart displays the main house types side-by-side so you can see how they sit relative to one another.

In Maidstone & Barming, the average price of a property has risen by 156 per cent since 2000.

You might think you know our area inside out, but this chart might make you think again. We’ve split the area according to where people and families are in their lifecycle. This has a big impact on the housing market, with people needing different types of housing at different points in their life.

In this chart, we’ve compared sales levels for flats and houses in the last few quarters. We’ve opted to look at an index, rather than absolute numbers, to expose the underlying patterns. This means that both property types start at 100 at the start of the period, and you can see how they’ve changed since, on an equal basis.