Maresfield costs about six hundred grand to get into. Detached houses go for nearer seven. Semis sell in the mid four hundreds. Terraces hardly ever come up. The village is priced for people who've sold a house somewhere else first.
The Land Registry recorded 32 sales in the Maresfield area in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £609,000. Detached houses made up 22 of them, at a median of around £680,000. The seven semi-detached sales came in around £455,000, and the three terraced sales around £327,000. That's a market run almost entirely on detached houses. The terrace median rests on three sales, so treat it as a rough guide rather than a going rate.
Prices barely moved. The published house-price index for the area was down 1% over the twelve months to May 2026, with an average of about £389,000 across the index area as a whole. Flats did worse, down about 4% over the same period. A 1% dip is too small to call a slump, but it isn't growth either. Flats matter little here anyway, because there are hardly any in the village.
Council tax follows the house sizes. The most common band in the Maresfield area is G, and only 8% of homes sit in bands A or B. A Band D bill runs to about £2,728 a year, which gives most readers a figure to compare with their own. The typical home here sits well above Band D, so expect a bigger bill.
Renting is priced at the district level only. The typical private rent across the Wealden area was about £1,260 a month in April 2026. That's an average from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of local listings, and it covers the whole district rather than Maresfield. By size, Wealden averages about £895 a month for one bedroom, £1,142 for two, £1,424 for three and £2,089 for four or more. Studio and room rents aren't available. A Maresfield house of four bedrooms or more will cost at least the top Wealden figure, and the listings will say so without saying so.
Household income here is high by most standards, and the house prices are higher. The modelled median household income for the Maresfield area was about £67,700 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That's a comfortable income. It still doesn't buy the median house on a mortgage alone. Most buyers here arrive with equity from a previous sale, and the prices reflect that.
Priced per square metre, the median is about £4,460. That comes from the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which covers 53% of them, so it describes half the market rather than all of it. The typical home behind that figure has about 120 square metres of floor space. That's a family house, not a starter flat, and the price per square metre shows it.
The homes are big. At the 2021 Census about 46% of households in the Maresfield area had four or more bedrooms, 31% had three, 19% had two and 4% had one. Anyone searching for a one-bedroom home here will get very few results. The four-bedroom house is the standard product, and the prices above are what it costs.
For value, Maresfield is poor: the entry price is high, the smaller homes barely exist, and the dip in the index is too small to change that.