Around £395,000, which describes almost nobody's house. Detached homes go for the best part of £700,000. Terraces go for about a third of a million. Flats hardly come up for sale at all. The middle figure is an average of two different housing markets that happen to share a railway station.
The Land Registry's records for the year to mid-April 2026 show 47 sales at a median of about £395,000. Split by type, that headline comes apart. The 13 detached houses sold at a median of around £685,000, the 15 semis at about £430,000 and the 14 terraces at around £328,000. Five flats sold, at a median of £106,000. Five sales make a rumour, not a price, so nobody should plan a first purchase on that number. The gap between a terrace and a detached house here is bigger than a whole terrace in plenty of northern towns. Marden's estate agents will talk about "village living", but most of the money goes on garden size and whether the house joins onto the neighbours.
The published house price index for the wider area shows prices up 0.4% in the year to May 2026, to an average of about £352,000. That is flat, whatever the property supplements do with it. Flats in the same index fell 3.1% over the same twelve months, which will please buyers more than whoever is selling a flat. Over five years the index is up about 14%. Nobody should read either figure as a forecast. It records what has already happened, not what comes next.
Council tax clusters in band C, and about 15% of homes sit in the two cheapest bands, A and B. Band D costs about £2,500 a year here. That's the figure to hold up against your current bill, because it's the one every council publishes and the one comparison sites use.
Renting is a borough story rather than a village one. 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 a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, spread across Maidstone's town flats as well as village houses, so it's an area average, not Marden's own rent. By size, the borough averages about £910 for one bedroom, £1,180 for two, £1,450 for three and £1,960 for four or more. Any landlord pricing a Marden family house at the borough average for three bedrooms is either generous or hasn't looked out of the window lately.
Modelled gross household income here, before tax, averaged about £67,500 in the financial year to March 2023. That's a good income by most measures, and it still leaves a detached house out of reach without a large deposit or equity from a previous sale. Terraces and semis are where a local salary and a mortgage can realistically meet. The detached end of the market is mostly bought with the proceeds of a house sold somewhere else, often somewhere pricier.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, 62% of them, the median price was about £4,170 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 104 square metres. That's a proper family house, not a cottage with a well-staged loft, and the price per metre reflects buyers paying for space rather than for charm.
The stock matches what those buyers are after. At the 2021 Census, 9% of households had one bedroom, 23% two, 36% three and 32% four or more. One-bed homes here are scarce, and scarce stock rarely comes up cheap. Three bedrooms is the default, and four is ordinary rather than aspirational.
Marden is fairly priced for what it sells, which is mostly roomy family houses at prices a well-paid local can reach from the terrace end and has to stretch for at the detached end. Better than middling, a long way from a bargain.