Rochester Road, Rochester house prices

Rochester Road, Rochester house prices are built from 422 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,498. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +52.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.3%.

HM Land Registry422 sales4 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Rochester Road, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Rochester Road, Rochester is £435,000 in 2022; the lowest is £54,950 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £54,950 to £350,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,015, so the real change over the whole record is +193.1% — about +3.65% 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: +52.2% in cash against +10.3% 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 Rochester Road, Rochester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rochester Road, Rochester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 420 freehold — 0.5% 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 £178,498 and the median freehold sale £184,498 — a gap of +3.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +17.5%. 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 13 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 Medway, 46.0% of 131,200 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.0% 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 Medway at £1,234 a month as of Jun 2026 — £897 for a one-bedroom home and £1,337 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £184,498 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.03% 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 ME1, 191 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 70 violent, 1 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 32 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 279,773 residents the 2021 census counted in Medway, that is 0.68 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 279,773 residents in Medway across 111,457 households. 66.2% of those households own their home and 33.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a ME1 postcode: 11 primary, 4 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. Rochester Road, Rochester sits above that national figure — +17.1%.

Within Rochester the street ranks 543 of 1085 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £170,000 (+8.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,210 per square metre, across 4 of the 422 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 £29,500 to £1,300,000. 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.

Rochester Road, Rochester sits in Medway, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Medway at 8.4 times median local earnings of £37,128 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

• High Street£146,000 median
• Maidstone Road£183,250 median
• Church Street£149,995 median
• City Way£260,000 median
• Wilson Avenue£180,000 median
• Rochester Avenue£128,000 median
• The Tideway£148,000 median
• Cecil Road£124,000 median
• Keating Close£155,000 median
• New Road£175,000 median
• Valetta Way£165,000 median
• St Williams Way£152,500 median
• Borstal Street£132,000 median
• St Margarets Street£140,500 median
• Haig Avenue£163,875 median
• Oldfield Drive£198,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 21 Rochester Road8 sales
• 261 Rochester Road6 sales
• 41 Rochester Road6 sales
• 282 Rochester Road6 sales
• 76 Rochester Road5 sales
• 99 Rochester Road5 sales
• 31 Rochester Road5 sales
• 280 Rochester Road5 sales
• 264 Rochester Road5 sales
• 51 Rochester Road5 sales
• 259 Rochester Road5 sales
• 77 Rochester Road5 sales
• 430 Rochester Road5 sales
• 25 Rochester Road5 sales
• 37 Rochester Road4 sales
• 438 Rochester Road4 sales
• 64 Rochester Road4 sales
• 39A Rochester Road4 sales
• 265 Rochester Road4 sales
• 33 Rochester Road4 sales
• 404 Rochester Road4 sales
• 237 Rochester Road4 sales
• 69 Rochester Road4 sales
• 422 Rochester Road4 sales

Back to Rochester house prices.

What is the average house price in Rochester Road, Rochester?

The median price paid in Rochester Road, Rochester across every sale on the register is £184,498. 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 Rochester Road, Rochester?

422 sales are on record for Rochester Road, Rochester, the most recent completing on 21 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Rochester Road, Rochester house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +52.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Rochester Road, Rochester house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £435,000, 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 Rochester Road, Rochester?

£2,210 per square metre, from the 4 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 21 Jan 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, “Rochester 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.