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Chalk market report DA12 1, Gravesend
The DA12 1 (Chalk) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,553 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DA12 1 (Gravesend) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the DA12 1 (Gravesend) median at £315,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £360,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,030 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,553 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like DA12 1 is a single group of streets within DA12 (Gravesend), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where DA12 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What DA12 1 homes really sell for
In the DA12 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £315,000, from 29 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £360,200, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in DA12 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in DA12 1 costs about £4,030 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, DA12 1 runs 11% above it.
A typical DA12 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 76 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 58 |
| 2023 | £327,000 | £359,293 | 51 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 95 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 119 |
| 2020 | £262,500 | £340,599 | 74 |
| 2019 | £252,500 | £330,967 | 82 |
| 2018 | £262,500 | £349,917 | 84 |
| 2017 | £244,000 | £332,792 | 120 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 123 |
| 2015 | £216,500 | £305,915 | 102 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 111 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 88 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 59 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 83 |
| 2010 | £174,500 | £273,661 | 78 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 93 |
| 2008 | £188,200 | £308,500 | 78 |
| 2007 | £163,000 | £276,493 | 187 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 178 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 122 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 141 |
| 2003 | £128,000 | £235,807 | 152 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 191 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 145 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 152 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 135 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 151 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 168 |
| 1996 | £55,200 | £116,414 | 118 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical DA12 1 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 196%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA12 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in DA12 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the DA12 1 market
This is a thin market: 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around DA12 1
DA12 1 falls under Gravesham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,328 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £904 a month here against £2,069 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Gravesham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £315,000 median sold price, £1,328 a month is £15,936 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
DA12 1 (Chalk): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in DA12 1 (Chalk)?
Are property prices falling in DA12 1 (Chalk)?
Is DA12 1 (Chalk) a good place to buy a house?
Will DA12 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
DA12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 22 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole DA12 district, not just DA12 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Sandpipers, Gravesend, DA12, Gravesend
- Honeymellow Cottage, Bowesden Lane, Shorne, DA12, Shorne
- Wingfield Road, Gravesend, DA12, Gravesend
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every DA12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in DA
Real sold prices by size across the DA area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £450,000 | £600,000 (+33%) | £800,000 (+33%) | £1,100,000 (+38%) |
| Semi-detached | £341,500 | £410,000 (+20%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £600,000 (+25%) | £712,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £312,000 | £364,000 (+17%) | £410,000 (+13%) | £499,997 (+22%) | £630,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £217,500 | £287,995 (+32%) | £339,997 (+18%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the DA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the DA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in DA12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of DA12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA12 2 | £291,000 | 37 |
| DA12 3 | £635,000 | 9 |
| DA12 4 | £384,800 | 48 |
| DA12 5 | £340,000 | 66 |
Zoom out to the full DA12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in DA12 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in DA12 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from DA12 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded DA12 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim DA12 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with DA12 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual DA12 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.