That is the middle of 686 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.7 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
686 homes sold in three years: 253 detached houses, 180 semi-detached houses, 173 terraced houses and 80 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£377K
median sale · 253 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£320K–£435K
Last 12 months
£365K79 sold
New build
£380K
Semi-detached houses£250K
median sale · 180 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£225K–£280K
Last 12 months
£250K51 sold
New build
£299K
Terraced houses£222K
median sale · 173 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£192K–£255K
Last 12 months
£220K53 sold
New build
£258K
Flats and maisonettes£120K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£143K
Last 12 months
£133K18 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses26%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes12%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Gillingham’s homes sold for between £210K and £350K
One sale in ten was under £145K and one in ten over £435K. 43% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £260,000, sits in the £250–300K band
686 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.7 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,950 in 1995 to £257,500 in the last 12 months (£220,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
201 sales in the last 12 months, against 500 in 2002, the busiest year, and 169 in 2008. Sales fell by 48% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 70% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Gillingham costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Gillingham, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£73K
£128K
£225K
£250K
£259K
£320K
£365K
Semi-detached houses
£52K
£80K
£162K
£165K
£175K
£219K
£250K
Terraced houses
£43K
£67K
£142K
£142K
£160K
£184K
£220K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£56K
£115K
£134K
£102K
£119K
£133K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 2.5% of sales in the last 12 months
1,458 new homes have been sold in Gillingham since 1995; the share peaked at 53% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £337,497
against £255,000 for a home sold on, 32% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Gillingham. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Lakeside Drive is Gillingham’s busiest street, with 27 sales in three years
59 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 14 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Lakeside Drive
SP8
27
£300,000
Mixed · new builds
2
Newbury
SP8
25
£115,000
Mostly flats
3
Barnaby Mead
SP8
15
£365,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Wyke Road
SP8
15
£315,000
Mixed
5
King Edmund Court
SP8
12
£131,500
Mostly flats
6
Bay Road
SP8
11
£350,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Jay Walk
SP8
11
£227,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Maple Way
SP8
11
£220,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Shaftesbury Road
SP8
10
£365,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Shreen Way
SP8
10
£285,500
Mostly detached houses
11
Peacemarsh
SP8
10
£260,250
Mixed
12
Wessex Way
SP8
10
£228,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Sylvan Way
SP8
10
£223,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
14
Oake Woods
SP8
10
£145,000
Mixed
15
Freame Way
SP8
9
£405,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Foxglove Close: £525,000
Gillingham median£260K
Foxglove Close£525K
Great Barton Hill Road£514K
Hawthorn Avenue£415K
Wavering Lane East£415K
Freame Way£405K
Cheapest streets
Meadowcroft: £68,500
Gillingham median£260K
Meadowcroft£69K
Newbury£115K
Addison Close£127K
King Edmund Court£132K
Oake Woods£145K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 7.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Dorset
Gillingham is the 30th most expensive of 32 towns in Dorset
Gillingham is one of Dorset’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Gillingham
What is the average house price in Gillingham?
The median home in Gillingham sold for £260,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 686 standard sales (£257,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £377,000, semi-detached houses £250,000, terraced houses £222,000 and flats and maisonettes £119,500.
Are house prices going up in Gillingham?
The median was £265,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£257,500), and £257,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Gillingham each year?
201 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 241 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Gillingham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Foxglove Close (SP8, £525,000), Great Barton Hill Road (SP8, £514,375) and Hawthorn Avenue (SP8, £415,000).
How much does a new build cost in Gillingham?
New homes sold for a median £337,497 over three years, against £255,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 9.6% of sales.
Is Gillingham expensive for Dorset?
Gillingham is the 30th most expensive of 32 towns of 2,500 or more in Dorset by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.