A typical Bearsted house costs around £435,000, and there's no discount section. Detached homes go for about £583,000. Semis sit around £415,000. Flats hardly ever change hands. The price is set by how quiet the place is, and the sellers know it.
The Land Registry recorded 102 sales in the year to the end of May 2026, at a median of £435,000. Detached houses made up 38 of those, at a median of about £583,000. Semis were the busiest type, with 43 sales at a median of £415,000. The 18 terraced sales came in at a median of £330,000, which is as close to a starter home as Bearsted gets. Three flats sold, at a median of £160,000. With only three sales, that figure is more of an anecdote than a price, and anyone planning to buy a flat here should expect a long wait for one to come up.
Prices have barely moved. The official house price index for the area rose 0.4% in the twelve months to May 2026. That's close enough to flat that nobody could honestly call it a boom or a slump, whatever an estate agent's window says. Flats in the index area fell 3.1% over the same year. In Bearsted, where flats are rare enough to be a novelty, that fall matters mostly to the few people who own one.
Council tax follows the housing upmarket. The most common band is D, and only about 4% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill comes to about £2,500 a year, so if you're comparing with your current bill, start there and assume you're more likely to go up a band than down.
Renting doesn't let you skip the cost. The typical private rent across the Maidstone area was about £1,290 a month as of April 2026, up 4% on a year earlier. That's an average for the whole local authority, not a Bearsted figure, and it's a mean from the Office for National Statistics index rather than a median of advertised listings. By size, the area averages run to about £910 a month for one bedroom, £1,180 for two, £1,450 for three and £1,960 for four or more. Studio and room rents aren't published for the area. In a village where most people own, a rental house on the right street will attract a long list of applicants.
Local incomes are healthy, but a £435,000 median is still a stretch. The Office for National Statistics models average gross household income, before tax, at about £73,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That's a comfortable income by most standards. It still won't make the median sale feel easy, and for a first-time buyer on one salary Bearsted is mostly a place to visit.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 91% of the year's total, the median price was about £4,570 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure has around 96 square metres of floor space. That's a family house of ordinary size at a price that doesn't feel ordinary, and a lot of the premium pays for the location rather than the floor space.
The 2021 census shows what those square metres are split into. About 42% of homes have three bedrooms and 34% have four or more. Two-bedroom homes make up about 22%, and one-bedroom homes about 3%. Downsizers looking for something small will find the choice thin, and they'll find it's mostly bungalows.
Bearsted is middling value at best: you pay above-average money for a calm, settled village, and the price doesn't get any lower for people who need it to.