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Chalk market report DA12, Gravesend
The standing DA12 (Chalk) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 20,375 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in DA12 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical DA12 (Gravesend) home changed hands for £337,500 in 2026 (median of 189 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £363,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,375 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district DA12 covering Gravesend (east), Chalk, Shorne sits in Gravesend. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where DA12 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 a home in DA12 sells for
In the DA12 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £337,500, from 189 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £363,000, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
DA12 prices by floor area
A square metre of DA12 home has cost about £4,120 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 18% above the national figure.
DA12's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £337,500 | £337,500 | 189 |
| 2025 | £355,500 | £364,001 | 524 |
| 2024 | £331,200 | £352,134 | 446 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 390 |
| 2022 | £347,500 | £407,483 | 558 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 648 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 427 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 524 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 623 |
| 2017 | £272,000 | £370,981 | 651 |
| 2016 | £252,000 | £352,550 | 637 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 637 |
| 2014 | £203,000 | £287,991 | 728 |
| 2013 | £180,500 | £259,721 | 549 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 497 |
| 2011 | £170,500 | £257,389 | 486 |
| 2010 | £171,500 | £268,956 | 495 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 523 |
| 2008 | £176,200 | £288,829 | 532 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 936 |
| 2006 | £166,200 | £288,502 | 1,054 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 752 |
| 2004 | £153,000 | £277,878 | 875 |
| 2003 | £138,700 | £255,519 | 756 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 1,001 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 797 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 710 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 734 |
| 1998 | £66,500 | £134,235 | 699 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 755 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 617 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 625 |
In cash terms the typical DA12 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £337,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the DA12 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £518,000 against £175,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, DA12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £518,000 | 27 | 2,203 |
| Semi-detached | £393,500 | 59 | 6,279 |
| Terraced | £305,000 | 84 | 8,789 |
| Flats | £175,000 | 19 | 3,104 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.1% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 397 DA12 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 860 sales a year before the financial crisis and 421 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around DA12
The local authority for DA12 is Gravesham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,328 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £904 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,069, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Gravesham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £337,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,328 a month (£15,936 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How DA12 trades
In its area's price order DA12 comes 16 of 18, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What people ask about DA12 (Chalk)
Is DA12 (Chalk) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in DA12 (Chalk)?
Are property prices falling in DA12 (Chalk)?
Where do DA12 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in DA12 right now
Everything above is what homes in DA12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the DA12 median sold price.
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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in DA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the DA area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
DA12 ranks 8 of 18 in the DA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the DA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside DA12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| DA12 1 | £315,000 | 29 |
| DA12 2 | £291,000 | 37 |
| DA12 3 | £635,000 | 9 |
| DA12 4 | £384,800 | 48 |
| DA12 5 | £340,000 | 66 |
How DA12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the DA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| DA3 | £502,500 | +14% |
| DA5 | £493,500 | +3% |
| DA13 | £475,000 | +5% |
| DA16 | £468,000 | +10% |
| DA15 | £465,000 | +11% |
| DA7 | £455,000 | +3% |
| DA6 | £405,000 | +16% |
| DA2 | £395,000 | +7% |
| DA4 | £382,500 | +7% |
| DA14 | £381,000 | +2% |
| DA8 | £373,500 | +15% |
| DA1 | £365,000 | +12% |
| DA17 | £342,500 | +4% |
| DA10 | £340,000 | -15% |
| DA11 | £340,000 | +6% |
| DA12 (this report) | £337,500 | +7% |
| DA9 | £335,000 | +18% |
| DA18 | £270,000 | -15% |
Thinking of selling in DA12? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at DA12's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim DA12.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every DA12 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.