Vale Drive, Chatham house prices

Vale Drive, Chatham house prices are built from 165 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 9 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £111,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +112.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +57.4%.

HM Land Registry165 sales49 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Vale Drive, Chatham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Vale Drive, Chatham is £282,500 in 2023; the lowest is £36,000 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £282,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,462, so the real change over the whole record is +181.4% — about +3.91% 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: +112.4% in cash against +57.4% 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 Vale Drive, 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. Vale Drive, Chatham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

73 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 44.2% 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 £85,000 and the median freehold sale £148,000 — a gap of +74.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 4 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 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.

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 £111,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.97% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Vale Drive, Chatham sits below that national figure — -29.5%.

Within Chatham the street ranks 645 of 804 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £139,000 (-20.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,932 per square metre, across 49 of the 165 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 £21,000 to £405,000. 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.

Vale Drive, 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.

Streets nearby

• Maidstone Road£235,000 median
• Beacon Road£111,500 median
• Thorold Road£98,000 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 4A Vale Drive5 sales
• 20A Vale Drive5 sales
• 9A Vale Drive5 sales
• 26 Vale Drive4 sales
• 66 Vale Drive4 sales
• 42 Vale Drive4 sales
• 24A Vale Drive4 sales
• 1B Vale Drive4 sales
• 50 Vale Drive4 sales
• 40 Vale Drive3 sales
• 55 Vale Drive3 sales
• 39 Vale Drive3 sales
• LOWER FLOOR MAISONETTE, 12 Vale Drive3 sales
• 18A Vale Drive3 sales
• 12A Vale Drive3 sales
• 38 Vale Drive3 sales
• 58 Vale Drive3 sales
• 15A Vale Drive3 sales
• 30 Vale Drive3 sales
• 11 Vale Drive3 sales
• 36 Vale Drive2 sales
• 77 Vale Drive2 sales
• 75 Vale Drive2 sales
• 6 Vale Drive2 sales

Back to Chatham house prices.

What is the average house price in Vale Drive, Chatham?

The median price paid in Vale Drive, Chatham across every sale on the register is £111,000. 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 Vale Drive, Chatham?

165 sales are on record for Vale Drive, Chatham, the most recent completing on 9 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Vale Drive, Chatham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +112.4% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +57.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Vale Drive, Chatham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £282,500, set in 2023. 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 Vale Drive, Chatham?

£1,932 per square metre, from the 49 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 9 Mar 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, “Vale Drive, 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.