Gravesend Road, Rochester house prices are built from 183 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £230,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -3.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.9%.
Median price paid
£230,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-3.2%
Change in real terms
-29.9%
Median per m²
£1,952
HM Land Registry183 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 18 May 2026
Section 01
How Gravesend Road, Rochester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gravesend Road, Rochester 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 | £97,475 | £216,441 |
| 2000s | 7 | £165,000 | £300,581 |
| 2010s | 7 | £325,000 | £458,250 |
| 2020s | 3 | £300,000 | £306,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gravesend Road, Rochester is £502,500 in 2019; the lowest is £87,000 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £97,475 to £300,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £211,446, so the real change over the whole record is +45.0% — about +1.29% 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: -3.2% in cash against -29.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | 18 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 5 | 12 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 76 | 22 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 25 | 9 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 48 | 31 Mar 2025 | Detached | £663,000 | £677,413 |
| 28 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 73 | 25 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £280,500 | £295,153 |
| 150 | 8 Nov 2024 | Detached | £790,000 | £831,269 |
| Atbara | 16 Oct 2023 | Detached | £515,000 | £556,437 |
| 140 | 30 Jun 2023 | Detached | £665,000 | £718,506 |
| 45 | 17 May 2023 | Terraced | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 21 | 13 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| Yorkdene | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £630,000 | £795,968 |
| 152 | 27 Sep 2021 | Detached | £800,000 | £1,010,753 |
| 62 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £411,000 | £519,274 |
| 73 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £267,500 | £337,970 |
| 22 | 25 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £254,000 | £320,914 |
| 2 the Paddock | 15 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £600,134 |
| Dingley Dell | 22 Mar 2021 | Detached | £995,000 | £1,257,124 |
| Syringa | 15 Mar 2021 | Detached | £720,000 | £909,677 |
| 108 | 19 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| 143 | 21 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| Woodlands | 8 Oct 2020 | Detached | £750,000 | £971,074 |
| 15 | 7 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £234,000 | £302,975 |
| 98 | 7 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £582,645 |
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 Gravesend Road, Rochester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Gravesend Road | £41,000 (1996) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 25 Gravesend Road | £106,000 (2010) | £300,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.0% |
| 48 Gravesend Road | £426,550 (2016) | £663,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +1.4% |
| 28 Gravesend Road | £51,500 (1998) | £285,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 73 Gravesend Road | £267,500 (2021) | £280,500 (2024) | +1.6% | -4.4% |
| 150 Gravesend Road | £126,000 (1997) | £790,000 (2024) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 45 Gravesend Road | £132,000 (2008) | £260,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| YORKDENE Gravesend Road | £159,695 (1999) | £630,000 (2021) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| 152 Gravesend Road | £320,000 (2003) | £800,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
| 22 Gravesend Road | £70,000 (2001) | £254,000 (2021) | +6.7% | +4.3% |
| SYRINGA Gravesend Road | £295,000 (2006) | £720,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.7% |
| 108 Gravesend Road | £240,000 (2012) | £440,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gravesend Road, 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 | 66 | 36.1% | £249,995 | £41,000 – £565,000 |
| Detached | 63 | 34.4% | £330,000 | £20,000 – £995,000 |
| Terraced | 51 | 27.9% | £125,000 | £35,000 – £300,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 1.6% | £95,000 | £54,497 – £115,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gravesend Road, Rochester
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 180 freehold — 1.6% 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 £95,000 and the median freehold sale £230,000 — a gap of +142.1%. 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 | 3 | 1.6% | £95,000 |
| Freehold | 180 | 98.4% | £230,000 |
A further 6 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 Gravesend Road, 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 £230,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.94% 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 Gravesend Road, 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 Gravesend Road, Rochester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gravesend Road, Rochester sits above that national figure — +46.0%.
Within Rochester the street ranks 338 of 1085 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £170,000 (+35.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,952 per square metre, across 18 of the 183 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 £20,000 to £995,000. 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.
Gravesend Road, 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
- 25 Gravesend Road4 sales
- 22 Gravesend Road4 sales
- 98 Gravesend Road4 sales
- COBDENE Gravesend Road4 sales
- 17 Gravesend Road4 sales
- 28 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 150 Gravesend Road3 sales
- YORKDENE Gravesend Road3 sales
- 152 Gravesend Road3 sales
- SYRINGA Gravesend Road3 sales
- 108 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 143 Gravesend Road3 sales
- WOODLANDS Gravesend Road3 sales
- 20 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 53 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 33 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 100 Gravesend Road3 sales
- THE MOORINGS Gravesend Road3 sales
- 69 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 96 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 139 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 12 Gravesend Road3 sales
- 5 Gravesend Road2 sales
- 48 Gravesend Road2 sales
Back to Rochester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gravesend Road, Rochester?
The median price paid in Gravesend Road, Rochester across every sale on the register is £230,000. 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 Gravesend Road, Rochester?
183 sales are on record for Gravesend Road, Rochester, the most recent completing on 18 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gravesend Road, Rochester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -3.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gravesend Road, Rochester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £502,500, set in 2019. 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 Gravesend Road, Rochester?
£1,952 per square metre, from the 18 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 18 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, “Gravesend Road, 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.