That is the middle of 85 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 6.3 times as much as in 1996. 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.
A third of Chattenden’s sales are semi-detached houses
85 homes sold in three years: 27 detached houses, 30 semi-detached houses, 19 terraced houses and 9 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£490K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£440K–£585K
Last 12 months
£531K16 sold
Semi-detached houses£353K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£318K–£388K
Last 12 months
£336K8 sold
Terraced houses£295K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£355K
Last 12 months
£275K5 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 9 sold, median £205K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses32%
Semi-detached houses35%
Terraced houses22%
Flats and maisonettes11%
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 Chattenden’s homes sold for between £295K and £465K
One sale in ten was under £220K and one in ten over £560K. 14% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £367,500, sits in the £300–400K band
85 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1996
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1996, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £66,500 in 1996 to £420,000 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 100 in 2007, the busiest year, and 20 in 2023. Sales fell by 78% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 18%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 42% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Chattenden costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Chattenden, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1996
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£122K
£242K
£240K
£333K
£427K
£531K
Semi-detached houses
£103K
£190K
£155K
£243K
£318K
£336K
Terraced houses
—
£198K
£179K
£196K
£235K
£275K
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% of sales in the last 12 months
380 new homes have been sold in Chattenden since 1995; the share peaked at 71% in 2005.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.6% sold leasehold in Chattenden. 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
Lodge Hill Lane is Chattenden’s busiest street, with 17 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Lodge Hill Lane
ME3
17
£282,000
Mixed
2
Main Road
ME3
13
£425,000
Mixed
3
Toad Hall Crescent
ME3
9
£360,000
Mixed
4
Songbird Crescent
ME3
7
£475,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Jury Drive
ME3
6
£473,750
Mostly detached houses
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.
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 Chattenden
What is the average house price in Chattenden?
The median home in Chattenden sold for £367,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 85 standard sales (£420,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £490,000, semi-detached houses £353,250, terraced houses £295,000 and flats and maisonettes £205,000.
Are house prices going up in Chattenden?
The median was £365,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£370,000), and £420,000 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 Chattenden each year?
31 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 45 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.