Lower Higham Road, Gravesend house prices are built from 250 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 19 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £219,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +21.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -12.0%.
Median price paid
£219,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+21.4%
Change in real terms
-12.0%
Median per m²
£2,394
HM Land Registry250 sales49 with floor areaLatest sale 19 May 2026
Section 01
How Lower Higham Road, Gravesend prices moved
The chart tracks the median Lower Higham Road, Gravesend house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £73,500 | £163,205 |
| 2000s | 9 | £175,998 | £320,616 |
| 2010s | 10 | £240,000 | £338,400 |
| 2020s | 4 | £352,000 | £359,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for Lower Higham Road, Gravesend is £450,000 in 2020; the lowest is £55,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £340,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,308, so the real change over the whole record is +191.2% — about +3.75% 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: +21.4% in cash against -12.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 | 19 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £417,500 | £417,500 |
| 181 | 18 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| 83 | 5 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 239 | 21 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 117 | 30 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 262 | 4 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 179 | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 115 | 17 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 137 | 8 Jan 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 154 | 13 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £489,291 |
| 215 | 20 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 278 | 4 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £405,112 |
| 12 | 11 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 205 | 26 Apr 2024 | Detached | £540,000 | £568,209 |
| 69 | 5 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 263 | 17 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 252 | 20 Apr 2023 | Detached | £590,000 | £637,471 |
| 53f | 3 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 47 | 16 Dec 2022 | Detached | £516,000 | £597,831 |
| 200 | 21 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 286 | 17 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £561,915 |
| 210 | 7 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 211 | 20 Dec 2021 | Detached | £570,000 | £720,161 |
| 229 | 18 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 152 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £461,156 |
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 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 Lower Higham Road | £89,000 (1997) | £417,500 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 181 Lower Higham Road | £249,950 (2011) | £475,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 83 Lower Higham Road | £60,000 (1998) | £320,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 117 Lower Higham Road | £52,000 (1998) | £240,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 179 Lower Higham Road | £155,000 (2002) | £400,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 115 Lower Higham Road | £135,000 (2012) | £300,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.3% |
| 137 Lower Higham Road | £190,000 (2010) | £550,000 (2025) | +7.3% | +4.2% |
| 154 Lower Higham Road | £356,500 (2019) | £465,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +1.0% |
| 215 Lower Higham Road | £225,000 (2009) | £450,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| 205 Lower Higham Road | £135,000 (1999) | £540,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 252 Lower Higham Road | £289,000 (2006) | £590,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 53F Lower Higham Road | £69,995 (1997) | £335,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Lower Higham Road, Gravesend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 96 | 38.4% | £242,000 | £53,000 – £550,000 |
| Terraced | 87 | 34.8% | £155,000 | £29,000 – £340,000 |
| Detached | 65 | 26.0% | £250,000 | £55,000 – £590,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.8% | £82,000 | £82,000 – £162,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Lower Higham Road, Gravesend
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 249 freehold — 0.4% 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 £82,000 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +168.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 1 | 0.4% | £82,000 |
| Freehold | 249 | 99.6% | £220,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.8% | £260,250 |
| Existing home | 248 | 99.2% | £219,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +18.8%. 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 9 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 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Gravesham, 45.1% of 47,742 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 207 | 0.4% |
| B | 5,284 | 11.1% |
| C | 16,037 | 33.6% |
| D | 18,039 | 37.8% |
| E | 6,387 | 13.4% |
| F | 1,364 | 2.9% |
| G | 424 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Gravesham at £1,330 a month as of Jun 2026 — £905 for a one-bedroom home and £1,457 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £219,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.29% 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 DA12, 259 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 90 violent, 3 burglary, 14 vehicle-related and 82 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 106,900 residents the 2021 census counted in Gravesham, that is 2.42 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 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend
The 2021 census counted 106,900 residents in Gravesham across 41,724 households. 63.3% of those households own their home and 36.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
14 state and independent schools have a DA12 postcode: 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gravesend Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,495 |
| St John's Catholic Comprehensive | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,335 |
| Thamesview School | Secondary | Foundation school | 978 |
| St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend | Primary | Academy converter | 869 |
| The Riverview Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 784 |
| Whitehill Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 515 |
| King's Farm Primary School | Primary | Community school | 468 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 458 |
| Chantry Community Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 441 |
| Singlewell Primary School | Primary | Community school | 402 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Gravesend Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Town Pier | Ferry | 2.3 km |
| West Street Pier | Ferry | 2.3 km |
| Tilbury Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 3.1 km |
Section 09
How Lower Higham Road, Gravesend compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Lower Higham Road, Gravesend sits above that national figure — +39.0%.
Within Gravesend the street ranks 360 of 910 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £172,500 (+27.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,394 per square metre, across 49 of the 250 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 £29,000 to £590,000. 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.
Lower Higham Road, Gravesend sits in Gravesham, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Gravesham at 8.9 times median local earnings of £40,619 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
- Rochester Road£175,000 median
- Old Road East£202,500 median
- Valley Drive£180,000 median
- Glen View£165,500 median
- Windmill Street£112,000 median
- Apsledene£139,498 median
- Sun Lane£157,000 median
- Wellington Street£130,000 median
- Richmond Drive£102,998 median
- Thong Lane£237,000 median
- Whinfell Way£165,000 median
- Thistledown£128,998 median
- Romulus Road£130,000 median
- Chalk Road£150,000 median
- Whitehill Road£220,500 median
- Winters Croft£132,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 83 Lower Higham Road5 sales
- 200 Lower Higham Road5 sales
- 40 Lower Higham Road5 sales
- 140 Lower Higham Road5 sales
- 65 Lower Higham Road5 sales
- 117 Lower Higham Road4 sales
- 191A Lower Higham Road4 sales
- 30 Lower Higham Road4 sales
- 193 Lower Higham Road4 sales
- 258 Lower Higham Road4 sales
- 174 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 115 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 137 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 215 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 205 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 53F Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 47 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 77 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 162 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 142 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 105 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 191 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 22 Lower Higham Road3 sales
- 163 Lower Higham Road3 sales
Back to Gravesend house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Lower Higham Road, Gravesend?
The median price paid in Lower Higham Road, Gravesend across every sale on the register is £219,000. 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 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend?
250 sales are on record for Lower Higham Road, Gravesend, the most recent completing on 19 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Lower Higham Road, Gravesend house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +21.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -12.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Lower Higham Road, Gravesend house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £450,000, set in 2020. 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 Lower Higham Road, Gravesend?
£2,394 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 19 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, “Lower Higham Road, Gravesend 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.