Homes in Halfway Houses sell for a median £290,000
That is the middle of 234 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 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.
38% of Halfway Houses’s sales are semi-detached houses
234 homes sold in three years: 86 detached houses, 90 semi-detached houses, 53 terraced houses and 5 flats and maisonettes.
median sale · 86 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £300K–£380K
- Last 12 months
- £330K23 sold
- New build
- £336K
median sale · 90 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £261K–£315K
- Last 12 months
- £289K18 sold
- New build
- £300K
median sale · 53 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £225K–£275K
- Last 12 months
- £255K15 sold
- New build
- £261K
Flats and maisonettes: 5 sold, median £200K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
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.
Half of Halfway Houses’s homes sold for between £253K and £332K
One sale in ten was under £221K and one in ten over £380K. 21% sold for under £250K.
The median, £290,000, sits in the £250–300K band
234 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,750 in 1995 to £300,000 in the last 12 months (£250,000 in 2019).
Fewer homes sell than in most years
56 sales in the last 12 months, against 142 in 1999, the busiest year, and 47 in 2010. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 44% more sales than 2020.
Halfway Houses costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Halfway Houses, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
| 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Last 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached houses | £60K | £110K | £198K | £190K | £245K | £315K | £330K |
| Semi-detached houses | £50K | £80K | £154K | £149K | £185K | £290K | £289K |
| Terraced houses | £45K | £66K | £136K | £128K | £147K | £179K | £255K |
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 have slowed: 2% of sales in the last 12 months, after 52% in 2022
337 new homes have been sold in Halfway Houses since 1995; the share peaked at 52% in 2022.
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
A new home sold for a median £309,995
against £290,000 for a home sold on, 7% 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.
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.7% sold leasehold in Halfway Houses. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Halfway Road is Halfway Houses’s busiest street, with 25 sales in three years
19 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 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 | Halfway Road | ME12 | 25 | £240,000 | Mixed |
| 2 | Rosemary Avenue | ME12 | 21 | £265,000 | Mixed |
| 3 | Queenborough Road | ME12 | 20 | £306,250 | Mostly detached houses |
| 4 | Darter Avenue | ME12 | 13 | £285,000 | Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds |
| 5 | Minster Road | ME12 | 12 | £364,000 | Mostly detached houses |
| 6 | Bayliss Grove | ME12 | 11 | £310,000 | Mixed |
| 7 | Holmside Avenue | ME12 | 10 | £249,500 | Mostly terraced houses |
| 8 | Whimbrel Drive | ME12 | 8 | £318,497 | Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds |
| 9 | Redshank View | ME12 | 7 | £320,000 | Mixed · new builds |
| 10 | Dragonfly Close | ME12 | 7 | £261,245 | Mixed · new builds |
| 11 | Highfield Road | ME12 | 6 | £341,250 | Mostly detached houses |
| 12 | Southdown Road | ME12 | 6 | £332,500 | Mostly detached houses |
| 13 | Sunnyfields Drive | ME12 | 6 | £325,000 | Mostly semi-detached houses |
| 14 | William Rigby Drive | ME12 | 6 | £301,000 | Mixed |
| 15 | Furze Hill Crescent | ME12 | 6 | £267,500 | Mostly semi-detached houses |
Uplands Way: £390,000
Belgrave Avenue: £165,000
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 2.4 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.
Halfway Houses is the 76th most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Halfway Houses is one of Kent’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Towns of 2,500 or more in Kent with 10+ standard sales; each links to its own Housing page.
Halfway Houses’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Sheerness, Queenborough and Eastchurch.
| Town | Miles | Median | Sold, 12 mo | Since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halfway Houses | — | £290K | 56 | +41% |
| Sheerness | 1 | £212K | 92 | +54% |
| Queenborough | 1.1 | £231K | 34 | +43% |
| Minster (Swale) | 1.4 | £315K | 203 | +40% |
| Grain | 3.4 | £250K | 21 | +33% |
| Iwade | 3.7 | £335K | 60 | +32% |
| Eastchurch | 4 | £210K | 12 | +8% |
| Sittingbourne | 5.7 | £300K | 645 | +36% |
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 Halfway Houses
What is the average house price in Halfway Houses?
The median home in Halfway Houses sold for £290,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 234 standard sales (£300,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £332,497, semi-detached houses £286,000, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £200,000.
Are house prices going up in Halfway Houses?
The median was £300,000 in 2025, up 7% on 2024 (£280,000), and £300,000 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 Halfway Houses each year?
56 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 92 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Halfway Houses?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Uplands Way (ME12, £390,000), Minster Road (ME12, £364,000) and Highfield Road (ME12, £341,250).
How much does a new build cost in Halfway Houses?
New homes sold for a median £309,995 over three years, against £290,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 18% of sales.
Is Halfway Houses expensive for Kent?
Halfway Houses is the 76th 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.
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