The typical Aylesham home sells for about £290,000, and it is almost always a house. Semis go for about the headline price. Terraces come in cheaper. Detached houses push towards four hundred grand. Flats are so rare that the estate agent's "apartment living" brochure would be a single page. Aylesham sells family houses and very little else.
The Land Registry recorded 170 sales across the Aylesham area in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £290,000. Semi-detached houses made up 64 of those sales at a median of about £290,000, which is why the headline figure and the semi figure match. The 60 terraced houses sold for about £260,000, and the 40 detached houses for about £397,000. Only 6 flats changed hands, at a median of about £155,000. With that few flat sales, the flat figure describes the handful that sold, not a market.
Prices aren't moving much. The published house-price index for the area put the average at about £271,000 in May 2026, up about 1% on the year. That change is small, and nobody should read a boom or a slump into it. Flats in the same index fell about 3% over the twelve months. Buyers of the few flats that do come up have a bit more room to haggle, and vendors hoping for 2022 prices will find the index doesn't agree with them.
Council tax is cheap at the bottom and reaches everything else eventually. Band B is the most common band, and about 51% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs to about £2,460 a year, which is the figure to hold against whatever you pay now. Most buyers here will pay less than that, because band D is well above where most of Aylesham's houses sit.
Rent is only published at district level. The typical private rent across the Dover area was about £980 a month as of April 2026, up about 6% on the year. That figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of advertised listings, and it covers the whole Dover area rather than Aylesham itself. By bedroom it runs at about £700 a month for a one-bed, £910 for a two-bed, £1,120 for a three-bed and £1,600 for four or more. There's no figure for studios or rooms, which in a town this short on flats is hardly a loss.
On income, the Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £57,500 across the area for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is three years old and describes that year, not this one. Set against a £290,000 semi, it puts Aylesham within reach of a two-earner household with a proper deposit. A single buyer on an ordinary salary will find the semis a stretch and the terraces the realistic target, which is exactly the conversation the mortgage adviser was going to have with them anyway.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 87% of them, the median price was about £3,600 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure measures about 79 square metres. That is family-house space at a price that doesn't ask you to pretend a box room is an office.
The 2021 census counts about 52% of homes with three bedrooms, 24% with two, 19% with four or more and only 4% with one. The three-bed is the local currency. Anyone shopping for a one-bed starter flat will run out of listings long before they run out of patience.
Houses in Aylesham cost what a family house in Kent should cost and rarely does elsewhere, and that is one of the place's real strengths. The catch is that nearly all of that money buys a three-bed, and the market has little else to sell.