Bell Road, Sittingbourne house prices

Bell Road, Sittingbourne house prices are built from 248 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £142,225. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -15.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -38.6%.

HM Land Registry248 sales64 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bell Road, Sittingbourne 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Bell Road, Sittingbourne is £267,500 in 2019; the lowest is £105,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £105,000 to £125,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £227,769, so the real change over the whole record is -43.9% — about -1.98% 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: -15.3% in cash against -38.6% 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 Bell Road, Sittingbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

158 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 63.7% 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 £133,692 and the median freehold sale £243,500 — a gap of +82.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -3.8%. 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 14 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 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.

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 £142,225 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.24% 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 ME10, 370 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 124 violent, 6 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 94 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 times busier.

Against the 151,676 residents the 2021 census counted in Swale, that is 2.44 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 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.

18 state and independent schools have a ME10 postcode: 13 primary, 5 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. Bell Road, Sittingbourne sits below that national figure — -9.7%.

Within Sittingbourne the street ranks 615 of 865 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,000 (-13.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,610 per square metre, across 64 of the 248 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 £64,398 to £740,000. 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.

Bell Road, Sittingbourne 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.

Streets nearby

• London Road£134,995 median
• Park Road£147,500 median
• Canterbury Road£145,000 median
• Shortlands Road£101,500 median
• Recreation Way£168,995 median
• Yeates Drive£106,000 median
• Beauvoir Drive£119,500 median
• Sterling Road£205,000 median
• Emerald Crescent£167,000 median
• Merleburgh Drive£103,000 median
• Chalkwell Road£130,000 median
• Tonge Road£120,000 median
• Barkers Court£115,000 median
• Onyx Drive£106,000 median
• William Street£100,000 median
• Ufton Lane£135,250 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 3, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road6 sales
• FLAT 29, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road5 sales
• FLAT 36, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road5 sales
• FLAT 35, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road5 sales
• 91 Bell Road5 sales
• FLAT 15, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road4 sales
• FLAT 64, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road4 sales
• FLAT 55, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road4 sales
• FLAT 56, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road4 sales
• 44 Bell Road4 sales
• 151 Bell Road4 sales
• APARTMENT 61, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road4 sales
• 97 Bell Road4 sales
• FLAT 32, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• 125 Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 33, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 48, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 18, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 43, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 14, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 11, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 62, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 66, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales
• FLAT 42, RIVERBOURNE COURT Bell Road3 sales

Back to Sittingbourne house prices.

What is the average house price in Bell Road, Sittingbourne?

The median price paid in Bell Road, Sittingbourne across every sale on the register is £142,225. 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 Bell Road, Sittingbourne?

248 sales are on record for Bell Road, Sittingbourne, the most recent completing on 5 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bell Road, Sittingbourne house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -15.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -38.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bell Road, Sittingbourne house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £267,500, 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 Bell Road, Sittingbourne?

£2,610 per square metre, from the 64 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 5 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, “Bell Road, Sittingbourne 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.