Rock Road, Sittingbourne house prices are built from 163 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £150,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +58.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +15.0%.
Median price paid
£150,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+58.7%
Change in real terms
+15.0%
Median per m²
£1,797
HM Land Registry163 sales64 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Rock Road, Sittingbourne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rock 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £47,000 | £104,362 |
| 2000s | 6 | £127,500 | £232,267 |
| 2010s | 5 | £207,500 | £292,575 |
| 2020s | 2 | £273,750 | £279,701 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rock Road, Sittingbourne is £284,500 in 2024; the lowest is £42,000 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £47,000 to £273,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £101,954, so the real change over the whole record is +174.3% — about +3.54% 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: +58.7% in cash against +15.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £278,000 | £278,000 |
| 68 | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 47 | 24 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 74 | 9 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 5 | 3 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £257,500 | £263,098 |
| 69 | 1 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 104b | 14 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 88 | 17 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 16 | 18 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 17 | 1 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £275,300 | £281,285 |
| 34 | 11 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| 85 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 89 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £272,500 | £278,424 |
| 10 | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 84 | 6 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 13 | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £269,000 | £274,848 |
| 46 | 4 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £293,000 | £308,306 |
| 103 | 15 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 50 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £282,000 | £296,731 |
| 29 | 12 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £287,000 | £301,993 |
| 91 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £249,000 | £262,007 |
| 44 | 9 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £312,500 | £328,825 |
| 40 | 9 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 53 | 19 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £258,000 | £271,478 |
| 25 | 24 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £300,000 | £324,138 |
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 Rock Road, Sittingbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 Rock Road | £76,000 (2000) | £278,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 68 Rock Road | £41,000 (1995) | £275,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 47 Rock Road | £129,995 (2003) | £290,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 74 Rock Road | £62,000 (1999) | £290,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 69 Rock Road | £69,000 (2001) | £280,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 88 Rock Road | £52,500 (1997) | £305,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 16 Rock Road | £215,000 (2017) | £285,000 (2025) | +3.6% | -0.1% |
| 17 Rock Road | £33,000 (1997) | £275,300 (2025) | +7.9% | +5.1% |
| 34 Rock Road | £38,000 (1997) | £255,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 85 Rock Road | £62,995 (1998) | £315,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 13 Rock Road | £127,500 (2003) | £269,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 46 Rock Road | £187,750 (2015) | £293,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rock Road, 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 | 156 | 95.7% | £151,000 | £28,750 – £322,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6 | 3.7% | £130,000 | £50,000 – £162,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.6% | £125,000 | £125,000 – £125,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rock Road, Sittingbourne
6 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 3.7% 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 £130,000 and the median freehold sale £151,000 — a gap of +16.2%. 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 | 6 | 3.7% | £130,000 |
| Freehold | 157 | 96.3% | £151,000 |
A further 12 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 Rock Road, 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 £150,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.76% 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 Rock Road, 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 Rock Road, Sittingbourne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rock Road, Sittingbourne sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Within Sittingbourne the street ranks 570 of 865 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £165,000 (-9.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,797 per square metre, across 64 of the 163 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 £28,750 to £322,000. 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.
Rock 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.
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
- 53 Rock Road6 sales
- 85 Rock Road5 sales
- 40 Rock Road5 sales
- 47 Rock Road4 sales
- 74 Rock Road4 sales
- 88 Rock Road4 sales
- 17 Rock Road4 sales
- 103 Rock Road4 sales
- 29 Rock Road4 sales
- 66 Rock Road4 sales
- 55 Rock Road4 sales
- 57 Rock Road4 sales
- 13 Rock Road3 sales
- 91 Rock Road3 sales
- 15 Rock Road3 sales
- 104A Rock Road3 sales
- 97 Rock Road3 sales
- 78 Rock Road3 sales
- 32 Rock Road3 sales
- 67 Rock Road3 sales
- 28 Rock Road3 sales
- 41 Rock Road3 sales
- 81 Rock Road3 sales
- 100 Rock Road3 sales
Back to Sittingbourne house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rock Road, Sittingbourne?
The median price paid in Rock Road, Sittingbourne across every sale on the register is £150,000. 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 Rock Road, Sittingbourne?
163 sales are on record for Rock Road, Sittingbourne, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rock Road, Sittingbourne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +15.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rock Road, Sittingbourne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £284,500, 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 Rock Road, Sittingbourne?
£1,797 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 12 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, “Rock 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.