Charles Drive, Rochester house prices are built from 170 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £207,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +54.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.1%.
Median price paid
£207,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+54.7%
Change in real terms
+12.1%
HM Land Registry170 salesLatest sale 15 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Charles Drive, Rochester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Charles Drive, Rochester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 3 | £69,250 | £153,768 |
| 2000s | 8 | £160,500 | £292,384 |
| 2010s | 5 | £237,500 | £334,875 |
| 2020s | 4 | £325,000 | £332,065 |
The highest yearly median on record for Charles Drive, Rochester is £345,000 in 2025; the lowest is £56,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £56,000 to £345,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £124,346, so the real change over the whole record is +183.5% — about +3.53% 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: +54.7% in cash against +12.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 91 | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 132 | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 80 | 18 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 63 | 25 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £323,000 | £330,022 |
| 77 | 5 Sep 2025 | Detached | £430,000 | £439,348 |
| 16 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 24 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 82 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| 92 | 17 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 72 | 13 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| 104 | 29 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 60 | 22 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 31 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 33 | 24 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 146 | 10 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 28 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £372,500 | £391,959 |
| 50 | 30 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 148 | 12 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 51 | 6 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 23 | 26 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 14 | 25 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 4 | 16 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £377,500 | £407,874 |
| 47 | 5 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £324,138 |
| 118 | 29 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £342,500 | £370,057 |
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 Charles Drive, Rochester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 Charles Drive | £108,000 (2000) | £330,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 91 Charles Drive | £258,000 (2015) | £460,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.2% |
| 132 Charles Drive | £105,000 (2002) | £270,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
| 80 Charles Drive | £255,000 (2017) | £345,000 (2026) | +3.4% | -0.1% |
| 63 Charles Drive | £84,995 (2000) | £323,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 77 Charles Drive | £224,000 (2005) | £430,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 82 Charles Drive | £167,000 (2011) | £345,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 24 Charles Drive | £166,000 (2004) | £350,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 92 Charles Drive | £257,000 (2017) | £345,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +0.5% |
| 72 Charles Drive | £249,999 (2006) | £490,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 104 Charles Drive | £171,000 (2010) | £325,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.6% |
| 31 Charles Drive | £195,000 (2014) | £290,000 (2024) | +4.0% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Charles Drive, Rochester 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 | 141 | 82.9% | £198,500 | £51,500 – £490,000 |
| Terraced | 17 | 10.0% | £230,000 | £50,000 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 7.1% | £289,000 | £86,000 – £515,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Charles Drive, Rochester
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 170 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 | 170 | 100.0% | £207,500 |
Section 07
Living in Charles Drive, Rochester
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 £207,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.69% 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 ME2, 275 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 101 violent, 5 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 62 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 2.57 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 Charles Drive, Rochester
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.
17 state and independent schools have a ME2 postcode: 15 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Academy Strood | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,311 |
| Maritime Academy | Secondary | Free schools | 736 |
| Cedar Children's Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 627 |
| Wainscott Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 454 |
| Hilltop Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 445 |
| Halling Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 391 |
| Bligh Primary School (Juniors) | Primary | Academy converter | 343 |
| Bligh Primary School (Infants) | Primary | Academy converter | 303 |
| Elaine Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 270 |
| Gordons Children's Academy, Junior | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 263 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Strood Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Cuxton Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Chatham Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Higham Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
Section 09
How Charles Drive, Rochester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Charles Drive, Rochester sits above that national figure — +31.7%.
Within Rochester the street ranks 418 of 1085 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £170,000 (+22.1%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £50,000 to £515,000. 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.
Charles Drive, Rochester 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
- Hawthorn Road£126,750 median
- Gordon Road£128,250 median
- Rushdean Road£125,000 median
- Station Road£124,950 median
- Brompton Lane£119,000 median
- Cedar Road£141,000 median
- Weston Road£141,075 median
- Montfort Road£115,500 median
- Darnley Road£115,500 median
- Kitchener Road£110,000 median
- Elaine Avenue£145,000 median
- Carnation Road£141,500 median
- Cliffe Road£141,250 median
- Silver Streak Way£185,000 median
- Jersey Road£168,000 median
- Allington Drive£188,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 77 Charles Drive4 sales
- 33 Charles Drive4 sales
- 148 Charles Drive4 sales
- 23 Charles Drive4 sales
- 21 Charles Drive4 sales
- 127 Charles Drive4 sales
- 80 Charles Drive3 sales
- 82 Charles Drive3 sales
- 31 Charles Drive3 sales
- 95 Charles Drive3 sales
- 150 Charles Drive3 sales
- 20 Charles Drive3 sales
- 7 Charles Drive3 sales
- 84 Charles Drive3 sales
- 83 Charles Drive3 sales
- 70 Charles Drive3 sales
- 88 Charles Drive3 sales
- 48 Charles Drive2 sales
- 91 Charles Drive2 sales
- 132 Charles Drive2 sales
- 63 Charles Drive2 sales
- 24 Charles Drive2 sales
- 92 Charles Drive2 sales
- 72 Charles Drive2 sales
Back to Rochester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Charles Drive, Rochester?
The median price paid in Charles Drive, Rochester across every sale on the register is £207,500. 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 Charles Drive, Rochester?
170 sales are on record for Charles Drive, Rochester, the most recent completing on 15 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Charles Drive, Rochester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Charles Drive, Rochester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £345,000, set in 2025. 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 Charles Drive, Rochester?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 Jun 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, “Charles Drive, Rochester 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.