Thorold Road, Chatham house prices are built from 365 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £98,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +85.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +37.1%.
Median price paid
£98,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+85.0%
Change in real terms
+37.1%
Median per m²
£1,272
HM Land Registry365 sales135 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Thorold Road, Chatham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Thorold Road, Chatham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £33,000 | £73,276 |
| 2000s | 9 | £94,000 | £171,240 |
| 2010s | 9 | £127,500 | £179,775 |
| 2020s | 3 | £185,000 | £189,022 |
The highest yearly median on record for Thorold Road, Chatham is £226,000 in 2022; the lowest is £31,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £38,000 to £185,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £84,378, so the real change over the whole record is +136.9% — about +3.13% 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: +85.0% in cash against +37.1% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £205,000 | £205,000 |
| 101 | 2 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £233,000 | £233,000 |
| 121 | 2 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 157 | 29 May 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 127 | 8 May 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 81 | 5 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 66 | 20 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 180 | 31 May 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 170 | 12 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £180,000 | £189,403 |
| 78 | 20 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £155,000 | £167,471 |
| 53 | 13 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| 101 | 17 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 93 | 31 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| 69 | 24 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £198,000 | £213,931 |
| 10 | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £216,500 | £250,834 |
| 15 | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 152 | 7 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 36 | 21 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £257,000 | £297,757 |
| 60 | 21 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £227,000 | £262,999 |
| 158 | 24 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 168 | 7 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £226,000 | £261,841 |
| 9 | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £170,000 | £214,785 |
| 36 | 2 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £200,000 | £252,688 |
| 112 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 46 | 12 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £152,000 | £192,043 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Thorold Road, Chatham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 Thorold Road | £28,000 (1999) | £205,000 (2026) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 101 Thorold Road | £54,950 (2001) | £233,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 121 Thorold Road | £93,000 (2006) | £235,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 157 Thorold Road | £32,000 (1999) | £180,000 (2025) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 127 Thorold Road | £26,500 (1997) | £225,000 (2025) | +7.9% | +5.2% |
| 81 Thorold Road | £89,995 (2004) | £180,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 66 Thorold Road | £48,000 (2001) | £200,000 (2024) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 180 Thorold Road | £32,000 (1996) | £200,000 (2024) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 170 Thorold Road | £103,000 (2010) | £180,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.0% |
| 78 Thorold Road | £31,000 (1998) | £155,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 53 Thorold Road | £102,000 (2014) | £185,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +3.5% |
| 93 Thorold Road | £51,500 (2000) | £185,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thorold Road, Chatham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 339 | 92.9% | £95,000 | £7,250 – £257,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 6.6% | £107,000 | £25,000 – £205,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.5% | £121,500 | £121,500 – £216,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Thorold Road, Chatham
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 365 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 365 | 100.0% | £98,000 |
A further 35 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.
Section 07
Living in Thorold Road, Chatham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Maidstone, 52.3% of 86,401 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 595 | 0.7% |
| B | 15,443 | 17.9% |
| C | 29,119 | 33.7% |
| D | 28,467 | 32.9% |
| E | 9,650 | 11.2% |
| F | 2,414 | 2.8% |
| G | 713 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Maidstone at £1,292 a month as of Jun 2026 — £915 for a one-bedroom home and £1,455 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £98,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.82% 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 ME5, 166 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 49 violent, 9 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 175,782 residents the 2021 census counted in Maidstone, that is 0.94 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Thorold Road, Chatham
The 2021 census counted 175,782 residents in Maidstone across 71,208 households. 69.3% of those households own their home and 30.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
15 state and independent schools have a ME5 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatham Grammar | Secondary | Academy converter | 948 |
| Greenacre School | Secondary | Academy converter | 747 |
| Walderslade School | Secondary | Academy converter | 697 |
| Swingate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 662 |
| Tunbury Primary School | Primary | Community school | 501 |
| Oaklands School | Primary | Academy converter | 444 |
| Wayfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 428 |
| Lordswood School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 409 |
| St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 397 |
| Maundene School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 385 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chatham Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Gillingham (Kent) Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
| Cuxton Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| Strood Rail Station | Rail | 5.8 km |
Section 09
How Thorold Road, Chatham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thorold Road, Chatham sits below that national figure — -37.8%.
Within Chatham the street ranks 702 of 804 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £139,000 (-29.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,272 per square metre, across 135 of the 365 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 £7,250 to £257,000. 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.
Thorold Road, Chatham sits in Maidstone, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Maidstone at 10.1 times median local earnings of £36,199 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Maidstone Road£235,000 median
- Beacon Road£111,500 median
- Walderslade Road£177,250 median
- Upper Luton Road£108,498 median
- Sundridge Drive£139,748 median
- Lords Wood Lane£200,000 median
- Princes Avenue£177,498 median
- Kingston Crescent£129,995 median
- Robin Hood Lane£250,000 median
- Churchill Avenue£127,000 median
- Freshwater Road£125,000 median
- King George Road£183,000 median
- Dargets Road£183,000 median
- Clandon Road£133,000 median
- Madden Avenue£138,250 median
- Ballens Road£182,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 73 Thorold Road6 sales
- 159 Thorold Road6 sales
- 71 Thorold Road6 sales
- 31 Thorold Road6 sales
- 140 Thorold Road6 sales
- 180 Thorold Road5 sales
- 15 Thorold Road5 sales
- 60 Thorold Road5 sales
- 30 Thorold Road5 sales
- 118 Thorold Road5 sales
- 62 Thorold Road5 sales
- 186 Thorold Road5 sales
- 5 Thorold Road5 sales
- 69 Thorold Road4 sales
- 101 Thorold Road4 sales
- 121 Thorold Road4 sales
- 157 Thorold Road4 sales
- 127 Thorold Road4 sales
- 66 Thorold Road4 sales
- 93 Thorold Road4 sales
- 36 Thorold Road4 sales
- 158 Thorold Road4 sales
- 168 Thorold Road4 sales
- 113 Thorold Road4 sales
Back to Chatham house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Thorold Road, Chatham?
The median price paid in Thorold Road, Chatham across every sale on the register is £98,000. 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 Thorold Road, Chatham?
365 sales are on record for Thorold Road, Chatham, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Thorold Road, Chatham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +85.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +37.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Thorold Road, Chatham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £226,000, set in 2022. 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 Thorold Road, Chatham?
£1,272 per square metre, from the 135 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 29 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, “Thorold Road, 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.