A house in Aylesford costs about £341,000, if you can find one for sale. Only six homes sold in a year. Every one of them was a terrace. Prices barely moved. That's the going rate for a village where the market mostly stays shut.
The Land Registry recorded 6 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £341,000. All 6 were terraced houses, so the median for terraces is the same figure, and there's no semi, detached or flat price to set beside it. A market this thin can shift its "typical" price when one cottage by the bridge sells. Anyone telling you precisely what a three-bed semi in Ditton or Eccles goes for is working from the neighbouring postcodes, not from Aylesford.
The house price index for the area rose 1.6% in the twelve months to May 2026. That's small: prices held steady rather than climbing. Flats went the other way, down 1.1% over the same period. Neither figure should change anyone's plans, and the sensible reading is a flat market that nobody is rushing into or out of.
Most homes are in council tax band C, and about 13% are in bands A or B. A band D bill is about £2,470 a year, which is the easiest number to hold up against what you pay now. The local council tax is neither cheap enough to mention at a dinner party nor high enough to complain about at the parish meeting.
Renting costs about £1,470 a month, which is the typical private rent across the Tonbridge and Malling area as of April 2026. It's an average for the whole council area, taken from the Office for National Statistics rent index, and not a figure for Aylesford's own streets. By size, the same index puts a one-bed at about £1,020 a month, a two-bed at about £1,320, a three-bed at about £1,610 and a four-bed or larger at about £2,460. No studio or room rents are published for the area, so a letting agent who quotes you one has found their figure somewhere else.
Median gross household income, before tax, was about £63,800 in the financial year to March 2023. That's a modelled figure for the wider area, and it's now a few years old. Against a £341,000 terrace, that income makes buying possible for a couple with two salaries and a deposit already saved. On one income it's a stretch, and the mortgage adviser will tell you so in a gentler voice than the numbers use.
The median price per square metre was about £3,800 across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which in the year to May 2026 was all 6 of them. The typical home behind that figure had about 86 square metres of floor space. That's a family-sized terrace, not a mansion, and anyone expecting a village to throw in extra room for the money will be disappointed.
The 2021 Census puts about 10% of homes at one bedroom, 30% at two, 40% at three and 19% at four or more. So three bedrooms is the norm, and two bedrooms is the usual starter home. With the market this quiet, the house that suits you may simply not come up this year.
Aylesford's prices are middling: fair for the setting, with no bargain in sight. The real cost of living here is patience, because the terrace you want has to come up for sale first.