Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
Lyndhurst is a semi-detached house in Bearsted, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME14 4EW). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.
At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £488,000 is 16.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£342/sq ft) was about 79.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £420,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Lyndhurst sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Certificate validity
Valid until 1 May 2029
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Lyndhurst has no planning applications on record.
A planning report still maps activity across the surrounding area and reads this property's extension & conversion potential.
Latest sale on Lyndhurst was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£488,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 3.2% per year over 15 years.
£420,000
Growth on file: 3.2% per year over 15 years.
1 March 2022Most recent
£420,000
+61.2%over 15 years22 October 2006
£260,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in ME14 4EW: £308,000 (2025–2020).
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Sold Oct 2020
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Crime
236/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Mallings Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.8 km
Thurnham Church of England Infant School. 8 schools nearby.
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