That is the middle of 2,525 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 6.7 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.
2,525 homes sold in three years: 322 detached houses, 754 semi-detached houses, 1,138 terraced houses and 311 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£439K
median sale · 322 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£520K
Last 12 months
£439K108 sold
New build
£553K
Semi-detached houses£315K
median sale · 754 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£360K
Last 12 months
£325K237 sold
New build
£450K
Terraced houses£265K
median sale · 1,138 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£230K–£300K
Last 12 months
£270K326 sold
Flats and maisonettes£167K
median sale · 311 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£125K–£203K
Last 12 months
£154K75 sold
New build
£202K
The mix
A terraced town: 45% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses13%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses45%
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 Chatham’s homes sold for between £230K and £345K
One sale in ten was under £180K and one in ten over £430K. 32% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £280,000, sits in the £250–300K band
2,525 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £44,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in the last 12 months (£225,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
746 sales in the last 12 months, against 2,117 in 2001, the busiest year, and 707 in 2010. Sales fell by 63% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 46% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Chatham costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Chatham, 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
£84K
£135K
£230K
£250K
£303K
£395K
£439K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£79K
£145K
£160K
£215K
£270K
£325K
Terraced houses
£38K
£58K
£120K
£125K
£158K
£220K
£270K
Flats and maisonettes
£32K
£40K
£109K
£100K
£107K
£152K
£154K
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: 0.4% of sales in the last 12 months
1,442 new homes have been sold in Chatham since 1995; the share peaked at 11% in 2023.
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 £211,350
against £282,000 for a home sold on, 25% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Chatham. 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
Whiffens Avenue is Chatham’s busiest street, with 47 sales in three years
194 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 55 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
Whiffens Avenue
ME4
47
£198,500
Mostly flats · new builds
2
Walderslade Road (ME5)
ME5
27
£336,000
Mixed
3
Castle Road
ME4
27
£207,500
Mostly terraced houses
4
Sundridge Drive
ME5
25
£277,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Lords Wood Lane
ME5
23
£360,000
Mixed
6
Beacon Road
ME5
23
£252,000
Mixed
7
Magpie Hall Road
ME4
21
£230,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Ballens Road
ME5
20
£372,500
Mixed
9
Madden Avenue
ME5
20
£268,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
Tunbury Avenue
ME5
19
£395,000
Mixed
11
Dargets Road
ME5
19
£380,000
Mixed
12
Princes Avenue
ME5
17
£326,500
Mixed
13
Kingston Crescent
ME5
17
£285,000
Mixed
14
Churchill Avenue
ME5
17
£275,000
Mixed
15
Vixen Close
ME5
16
£450,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
Dearest streets
Robin Hood Lane: £585,000
Chatham median£280K
Robin Hood Lane£585K
Swift Crescent£520K
Maidstone Road (ME4)£513K
Maidstone Road (ME5)£510K
Capstone Road (ME7)£500K
Cheapest streets
High Street: £71,800
Chatham median£280K
High Street£72K
Hopewell Drive£77K
Sultan Road£85K
Dove Close£98K
Edward Court£106K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.1 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 Kent
Chatham is the 78th most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Chatham is one of Kent’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 Chatham
What is the average house price in Chatham?
The median home in Chatham sold for £280,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 2,525 standard sales (£295,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £439,000, semi-detached houses £315,000, terraced houses £265,000 and flats and maisonettes £167,000.
Are house prices going up in Chatham?
The median was £287,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£280,000), and £295,000 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 Chatham each year?
746 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,084 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Chatham?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Robin Hood Lane (ME5, £585,000), Swift Crescent (ME5, £520,000) and Maidstone Road (ME4, £513,250).
How much does a new build cost in Chatham?
New homes sold for a median £211,350 over three years, against £282,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 3.3% of sales.
Is Chatham expensive for Kent?
Chatham is the 78th most expensive of 87 towns of 2,500 or more in Kent 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.