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Borstal market report ME1 1, Rochester
The ME1 1 (Borstal) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,997 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME1 1 (Rochester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 39 registered 2026 sales put the ME1 1 (Rochester) median at £245,000, down 19% on five years earlier, with a mean of £282,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,670 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,997 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME1 1 is one sector of ME1 (Rochester): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ME1 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 ME1 1 homes really sell for
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in ME1 1 and the middle price, the median, is £245,000. The mean lands at £282,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in ME1 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME1 1 sales average about £3,670 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME1 1 runs 14% below it.
A typical ME1 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 124 |
| 2024 | £288,500 | £306,735 | 86 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 177 |
| 2022 | £308,000 | £361,165 | 247 |
| 2021 | £302,500 | £383,004 | 256 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 121 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 161 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 112 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 109 |
| 2016 | £228,500 | £319,674 | 128 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 151 |
| 2014 | £167,000 | £236,919 | 159 |
| 2013 | £174,500 | £251,088 | 115 |
| 2012 | £162,000 | £238,444 | 85 |
| 2011 | £177,500 | £267,957 | 102 |
| 2010 | £189,200 | £296,714 | 80 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 102 |
| 2008 | £147,000 | £240,964 | 117 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 193 |
| 2006 | £163,800 | £284,336 | 214 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 163 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 243 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 193 |
| 2002 | £132,500 | £249,298 | 264 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 242 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 303 |
| 1999 | £101,000 | £201,288 | 248 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 123 |
| 1997 | £66,400 | £136,173 | 155 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 103 |
| 1995 | £61,800 | £134,344 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical ME1 1 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 82%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 38% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME1 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 2010 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−25.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME1 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.1% | −12.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.1% | −8.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ME1 1
How many homes change hands
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.
ME1 1 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 227 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the ME1 1 market
This is a thin market: 39 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. Against the ME1 district median, ME1 1 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around ME1 1
The local authority for ME1 1 is Medway, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,238 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £900 a month here against £1,835 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, which against the £245,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
ME1 1 (Borstal): the questions that come up
Is ME1 1 (Borstal) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME1 1 (Borstal)?
Are property prices falling in ME1 1 (Borstal)?
Where do ME1 1 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% 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 ME1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME1 district, not just ME1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 43% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Dorrit Way, Rochester, Rochester
- Rose Street, Rochester, Rochester
- Kennard Close, Rochester, Rochester
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every ME1 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 ME
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £360,000 | £494,995 (+37%) | £690,997 (+40%) | £920,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £282,000 | £327,000 (+16%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £475,000 (+23%) | £615,000 (+29%) |
| Terraced | £250,000 | £275,000 (+10%) | £315,000 (+15%) | £405,000 (+29%) | £567,500 (+40%) |
| Flat | £166,500 | £225,000 (+35%) | £340,000 (+51%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ME area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME1 2 | £320,000 | 62 |
| ME1 3 | £303,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full ME1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME1 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME1 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME1 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME1 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME1 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME1 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME1 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.