Sold Price History


High Street, Sheerness house prices

High Street, Sheerness house prices are built from 420 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £97,250. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +37.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -0.5%.

Median price paid

£97,250

Change in cash, 2015–2025

+37.4%

Change in real terms

-0.5%

Median per m²

£1,359

HM Land Registry420 sales74 with floor areaLatest sale 18 May 2026

Section 01

How High Street, Sheerness prices moved

The chart tracks the median High Street, Sheerness 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.

High Street, Sheerness house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2025
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£34,500£76,606
2000s9£86,000£156,667
2010s8£125,000£176,250
2020s4£195,000£199,239
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Sheerness is £238,000 in 2024; the lowest is £32,000 in 1998. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £34,500 to £176,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £76,606, so the real change over the whole record is +135.4% — about +2.89% 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: +37.4% in cash against -0.5% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
31918 May 2026Terraced£260,000£260,000
1161 May 2026Semi-detached£325,000£325,000
9416 Jan 2026Detached£337,500£337,500
1 Aviation Court30 Sep 2025Terraced£178,000£181,870
9929 Sep 2025Detached£310,000£316,739
2875 Sep 2025Terraced£227,500£232,446
11518 Aug 2025Semi-detached£315,000£321,848
87a20 Jun 2025Terraced£125,000£127,717
315 Jun 2025Terraced£175,000£178,804
6113 May 2025Terraced£172,000£175,739
Flat 1 25530 Jan 2025Flat or maisonette£150,000£153,261
2129 Nov 2024Terraced£235,000£247,276
29619 Nov 2024Terraced£345,000£363,022
1812 Nov 2024Terraced£147,000£154,679
31931 Oct 2024Terraced£162,000£170,463
2948 Aug 2024Semi-detached£330,000£347,239
3038 Aug 2024Terraced£240,000£252,537
177 Mar 2024Terraced£236,000£248,328
10623 Feb 2024Semi-detached£275,000£289,366
Flat 2 Portland House23 Jun 2023Flat or maisonette£91,500£98,862
28617 May 2023Terraced£236,000£254,989
7124 Mar 2023Terraced£222,500£240,402
18421 Dec 2022Terraced£200,000£231,717
3129 Dec 2022Terraced£238,000£275,744
439 Dec 2022Terraced£150,000£173,788
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 High Street, Sheerness values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
319 High Street£120,000 (2013)£260,000 (2026)+6.1%+3.1%
116 High Street£135,000 (2010)£325,000 (2026)+5.6%+2.6%
1 AVIATION COURT High Street£33,500 (1997)£178,000 (2025)+6.1%+3.4%
287 High Street£156,000 (2015)£227,500 (2025)+3.8%+0.6%
115 High Street£170,000 (2004)£315,000 (2025)+3.0%+0.1%
87A High Street£34,000 (1996)£125,000 (2025)+4.6%+1.9%
31 High Street£150,000 (2021)£175,000 (2025)+3.9%-1.4%
61 High Street£100,000 (2004)£172,000 (2025)+2.6%-0.3%
FLAT 1 255 High Street£21,000 (1997)£150,000 (2025)+7.3%+4.5%
21 High Street£35,000 (1997)£235,000 (2024)+7.3%+4.6%
296 High Street£36,000 (1995)£345,000 (2024)+8.1%+5.4%
18 High Street£9,000 (1996)£147,000 (2024)+10.5%+7.7%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced20448.6%£115,000£9,000 – £345,000
Flat or maisonette11527.4%£75,000£6,500 – £200,000
Semi-detached6214.8%£148,000£19,800 – £335,000
Detached399.3%£137,000£27,500 – £390,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in High Street, Sheerness

114 of the sales on record are leasehold and 306 freehold — 27.1% 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 £76,000 and the median freehold sale £122,750 — a gap of +61.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold11427.1%£76,000
Freehold30672.9%£122,750
New build225.2%£103,248
Existing home39894.8%£96,500
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +7.0%. 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 90 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 High Street, Sheerness

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Swale, 46.6% of 69,143 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A5970.9%
B9,58113.9%
C22,03231.9%
D24,91236.0%
E8,95412.9%
F2,2833.3%
G7841.1%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Swale.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Swale at £1,095 a month as of Jun 2026 — £766 for a one-bedroom home and £1,223 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £97,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.51% 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 ME12, 90 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 31 violent, 0 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times quieter.

Against the 151,676 residents the 2021 census counted in Swale, that is 0.59 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 High Street, Sheerness

The 2021 census counted 151,676 residents in Swale across 60,495 households. 68.3% of those households own their home and 31.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

12 state and independent schools have a ME12 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Leigh Academy MinsterSecondaryAcademy sponsor led1,005
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter572
EKC Sheppey SecondarySecondaryAcademy sponsor led542
Halfway Houses Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter498
West Minster Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school473
Rose Street Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school424
St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter382
Thistle Hill AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led349
Richmond Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led246
St Edward's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led198
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Sheerness-on-Sea Rail StationRail3.8 km
Queenborough Rail StationRail3.9 km
Swale Rail StationRail5.4 km
Kemsley Rail StationRail8.2 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How High Street, Sheerness compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Sheerness sits below that national figure — -38.3%.

Within Sheerness the street ranks 340 of 415 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £140,000 (-30.5%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,359 per square metre, across 74 of the 420 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 £6,500 to £390,000. 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.

High Street, Sheerness sits in Swale, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Swale at 8.8 times median local earnings of £34,776 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

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Sheerness house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in High Street, Sheerness?

The median price paid in High Street, Sheerness across every sale on the register is £97,250. 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 High Street, Sheerness?

420 sales are on record for High Street, Sheerness, 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 High Street, Sheerness house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +37.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -0.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were High Street, Sheerness house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £238,000, set in 2024. 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 High Street, Sheerness?

£1,359 per square metre, from the 74 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, “High Street, Sheerness 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.