Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne house prices are built from 175 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 19 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £185,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +102.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +48.5%.
Median price paid
£185,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+102.5%
Change in real terms
+48.5%
HM Land Registry175 salesLatest sale 19 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | £177,500 | £323,353 |
| 2010s | 6 | £194,000 | £273,540 |
| 2020s | 2 | £222,500 | £227,337 |
The highest yearly median on record for Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne is £287,000 in 2024; the lowest is £141,750 in 2014. Across the full 19-year record the cash median has moved from £177,500 to £287,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £316,004, so the real change over the whole record is -4.4% — about -0.25% 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: +102.5% in cash against +48.5% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 19 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 27 | 6 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 57 | 29 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 81 | 16 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 1 | 20 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 87 | 13 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 95 | 22 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 74 | 1 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £341,978 |
| 21 | 20 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 37 | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 14 | 10 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 27 | 10 May 2024 | Terraced | £287,000 | £301,993 |
| 59 | 26 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 51 | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £365,000 | £394,368 |
| 6 | 30 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| 63 | 24 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 8 | 27 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 1 | 22 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 10 | 7 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £202,753 |
| 109 | 10 Jan 2022 | Detached | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 95 | 29 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 13 | 28 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 57 | 30 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 75 | 7 May 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 22 | 16 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £208,468 |
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 Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 Monarch Drive | £175,000 (2006) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 27 Monarch Drive | £175,000 (2006) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 57 Monarch Drive | £128,250 (2007) | £190,000 (2025) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| 81 Monarch Drive | £159,950 (2008) | £255,000 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 1 Monarch Drive | £215,000 (2006) | £340,000 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 87 Monarch Drive | £137,500 (2007) | £190,000 (2025) | +1.8% | -1.1% |
| 95 Monarch Drive | £139,950 (2007) | £225,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 74 Monarch Drive | £225,000 (2006) | £325,000 (2024) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
| 21 Monarch Drive | £170,000 (2006) | £315,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 37 Monarch Drive | £235,000 (2006) | £370,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 14 Monarch Drive | £110,000 (2005) | £185,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 59 Monarch Drive | £135,000 (2007) | £190,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 58 | 33.1% | £194,000 | £125,000 – £365,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 53 | 30.3% | £130,000 | £80,000 – £190,000 |
| Semi-detached | 47 | 26.9% | £203,500 | £135,000 – £350,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 9.7% | £235,000 | £150,000 – £370,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne
54 of the sales on record are leasehold and 121 freehold — 30.9% 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 £131,500 and the median freehold sale £200,000 — a gap of +52.1%. 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 | 54 | 30.9% | £131,500 |
| Freehold | 121 | 69.1% | £200,000 |
| New build | 81 | 46.3% | £180,000 |
| Existing home | 94 | 53.7% | £192,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.3%. 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 9 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 Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne
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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 597 | 0.9% |
| B | 9,581 | 13.9% |
| C | 22,032 | 31.9% |
| D | 24,912 | 36.0% |
| E | 8,954 | 12.9% |
| F | 2,283 | 3.3% |
| G | 784 | 1.1% |
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 £185,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.10% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westlands School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,690 |
| The Sittingbourne School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,556 |
| Fulston Manor School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,314 |
| Borden Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 938 |
| Highsted Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 793 |
| Regis Manor Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 616 |
| Westlands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 469 |
| Tunstall Church of England (Aided) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 417 |
| Lansdowne Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 415 |
| South Avenue Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 408 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Sittingbourne Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Kemsley Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Newington Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Teynham Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
Section 09
How Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne sits above that national figure — +17.5%.
Within Sittingbourne the street ranks 425 of 865 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £165,000 (+12.1%).
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 £80,000 to £370,000. 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.
Monarch Drive, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- Bell Road£142,225 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 27 Monarch Drive5 sales
- 95 Monarch Drive5 sales
- 57 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 87 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 37 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 14 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 41 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 91 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 47 Monarch Drive4 sales
- 1 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 21 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 59 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 51 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 22 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 3 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 97 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 23 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 7 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 26 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 56 Monarch Drive3 sales
- 33 Monarch Drive2 sales
- 81 Monarch Drive2 sales
- 74 Monarch Drive2 sales
- 63 Monarch Drive2 sales
Back to Sittingbourne house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne?
The median price paid in Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne across every sale on the register is £185,000. 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 Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne?
175 sales are on record for Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne, the most recent completing on 19 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +102.5% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +48.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £287,000, 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 Monarch Drive, Sittingbourne?
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 19 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, “Monarch Drive, 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.