High Street, Chatham house prices

High Street, Chatham house prices are built from 316 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 the median moved +17.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.5%.

HM Land Registry316 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 26 May 2026

The chart tracks the median High Street, Chatham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Chatham is £158,675 in 2008; the lowest is £34,750 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £39,950 to £72,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,708, so the real change over the whole record is -14.6% — about -0.54% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +17.1% in cash against -15.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to High Street, Chatham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, Chatham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

257 of the sales on record are leasehold and 59 freehold — 81.3% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £65,000 and the median freehold sale £128,000 — a gap of +96.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -39.3%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 133 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Medway, 46.0% of 131,200 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Medway at £1,234 a month as of Jun 2026 — £897 for a one-bedroom home and £1,337 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 21.15% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of ME4, 849 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 298 violent, 17 burglary, 37 vehicle-related and 188 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.1 times busier.

Against the 279,773 residents the 2021 census counted in Medway, that is 3.03 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 279,773 residents in Medway across 111,457 households. 66.2% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

14 state and independent schools have a ME4 postcode: 10 primary, 4 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Chatham sits below that national figure — -55.6%.

Within Chatham the street ranks 782 of 804 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £139,000 (-49.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,288 per square metre, across 65 of the 316 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £12,000 to £970,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

High Street, Chatham sits in Medway, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Medway at 8.4 times median local earnings of £37,128 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Luton Road£88,975 median
• Castle Road£94,000 median
• Magpie Hall Road£123,500 median
• Dale Street£97,500 median
• Chatham Quays£187,500 median
• Gordon Road£100,000 median
• Rochester Street£126,000 median
• Boundary Road£125,000 median
• Glencoe Road£101,500 median
• Palmerston Road£114,000 median
• Victoria Road£120,000 median
• Port Rise£102,998 median
• Sturla Road£95,000 median
• Dock Head Road£165,000 median
• Albany Road£96,250 median
• Pagitt Street£113,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 42, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street6 sales
• FLAT 46, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street5 sales
• FLAT 35, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street5 sales
• FLAT 29, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 84, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 9, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 20, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 1, MEDIA HOUSE High Street4 sales
• FLAT 54, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 64, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 51, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 11, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street4 sales
• FLAT 2, MEDIA HOUSE High Street4 sales
• FLAT 37, PEMBROKE COURT High Street4 sales
• FLAT 44, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street3 sales
• 321A High Street3 sales
• FLAT 60, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street3 sales
• 52B High Street3 sales
• FLAT 21, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street3 sales
• FLAT 66, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street3 sales
• FLAT 61, PEMBROKE COURT, 397 High Street3 sales
• FLAT 2, TUDOR HOUSE, 315 – 323 High Street3 sales
• FLAT 6, TUDOR HOUSE, 315 – 323 High Street3 sales
• 46A High Street3 sales

Back to Chatham house prices.

What is the average house price in High Street, Chatham?

The median price paid in High Street, Chatham across every sale on the register is £70,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in High Street, Chatham?

316 sales are on record for High Street, Chatham, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have High Street, Chatham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +17.1% between 2013 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were High Street, Chatham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £158,675, set in 2008. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in High Street, Chatham?

£1,288 per square metre, from the 65 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “High Street, Chatham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.