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Chalk market report DA12 2, Gravesend

The DA12 2 (Chalk) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,434 sales registered with HM Land Registry in DA12 2 (Gravesend) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: 37 registered 2026 sales put the DA12 2 (Gravesend) median at £291,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £287,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,434 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.

DA12 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside DA12 (Gravesend). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

The going rate for a home in DA12 2

37 sales were registered in DA12 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £291,000. The mean works out at £287,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.

Price per square metre in DA12 2

A square metre of DA12 2 home has cost about £3,640 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving DA12 2 2% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical DA12 2 home went from £37,200 in 1995 to £291,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 260%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 1996 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−28.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

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.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in DA12 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 213 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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 2 market

Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes DA12 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within DA12, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.

What homes rent for around DA12 2

The local authority for DA12 2 is Gravesham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,328 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £904 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,069 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Set against the £291,000 median sold price, £1,328 a month is £15,936 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.

Common questions on DA12 2 (Chalk)

Are DA12 2 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

What you could buy in DA12 now

What another bedroom costs in DA

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the DA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

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:

Zoom out to the full DA12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how DA12 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in DA12 2: what the record supports

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Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.