Around £430,000, which gets you a semi and a view of the detached house next door. Detached houses sell for well over half a million. Terraces go for about three hundred thousand. Flats hardly ever come up for sale. The median sale sits halfway between what most buyers can afford and what most sellers are selling.
The Land Registry recorded 84 sales across the Headcorn area in the year to April 2026, at a median of £430,000. Detached homes made up more than half of them, with 44 sales at a median of about £573,000. There were 20 semi-detached sales at around £408,000, 14 terraced sales at £305,000, and six flats at about £224,000. So the headline median is being dragged upwards by the big houses. A buyer shopping at £430,000 is looking at a good semi or a small detached house, and the listings will keep showing the bigger one next door.
Prices were almost flat over the past year. The house price index covering the area rose by 0.4% in the twelve months to May 2026, which barely moves the headline. Flats fell by 3.1% over the same period, the one noticeable move on the index. Over five years the index is up about 14%. Anyone expecting a quick profit after the move should know the market hasn't been providing one.
Council tax follows the house sizes. The most common band in the Headcorn area is D, and only about 13% of homes are in bands A or B. A Band D bill runs to about £2,500 a year, which is the number to put against whatever you pay now. The detached houses sit in the higher bands, and the bills are higher to match.
Renting can only be described at council level. The typical private rent across the Maidstone area was about £1,290 a month in April 2026, up 4% on a year earlier. This is an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, the borough average is about £910 a month for one bedroom, £1,180 for two, £1,450 for three and £1,960 for four or more. Those averages include town-centre Maidstone, so a family house in a Wealden village may well cost more than the four-bedroom figure. There are no reliable studio or room rents for the area.
Local incomes are comfortable, but they don't make the houses cheap. The modelled median gross household income, before tax, was about £61,900 for the financial year to March 2023. That's a solid local income, and it still leaves a median sale here needing a sizeable deposit or a second salary with some room to spare. Buyers moving from London with equity will manage. Buyers relying on local wages will need a mortgage adviser.
Per square metre, the median is about £4,110, across a typical floor area of about 95 square metres. That covers the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, which is about 60% of them, not every home that changed hands. It's a useful way to compare a cramped listing with a roomy one, and a way to spot when a heated garden room is being counted as floor space.
The homes themselves are mostly family-sized. At the 2021 Census, about 39% of households in the Headcorn area had three bedrooms and 35% had four or more. Two-bedroom homes made up 21%, and one-bedroom homes only 5%. A buyer looking for a small first home is fishing in a very small pond. A buyer who needs a fourth bedroom for guests, an office or a home gym will find more choice here than most villages can manage.
Headcorn's house prices are middling. They're flat, fair for the size of house, and harder on anyone who wanted a small first home. It's a market for people trading up, not for first-time buyers.