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Borstal market report ME1 2, Rochester
The standing ME1 2 (Borstal) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,092 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME1 2 (Rochester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME1 2 (Rochester) came in at £320,000, out of 62 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £336,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,092 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME1 2 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 2 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.
ME1 2 sold prices: where the market stands
The ME1 2 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 62 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £336,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
ME1 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put ME1 2 at roughly £3,930 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ME1 2 12% above the national figure.
The price of a typical ME1 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 62 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 175 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 164 |
| 2023 | £319,500 | £351,052 | 132 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 190 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 273 |
| 2020 | £258,200 | £335,020 | 138 |
| 2019 | £247,500 | £324,413 | 185 |
| 2018 | £248,000 | £330,589 | 189 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 209 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 195 |
| 2015 | £188,000 | £265,644 | 213 |
| 2014 | £167,000 | £236,919 | 212 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 221 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 202 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 179 |
| 2010 | £149,000 | £233,670 | 176 |
| 2009 | £142,200 | £228,588 | 152 |
| 2008 | £157,000 | £257,356 | 170 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 286 |
| 2006 | £142,500 | £247,362 | 331 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 238 |
| 2004 | £132,700 | £241,009 | 324 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 290 |
| 2002 | £96,000 | £180,623 | 293 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 307 |
| 2000 | £68,800 | £135,020 | 284 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 336 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 255 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 270 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 255 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 186 |
In cash terms the typical ME1 2 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 259%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME1 2 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 2003 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.4%). 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) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in ME1 2
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 62 ME1 2 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 294 sales a year before the financial crisis and 145 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 tenants pay around ME1 2
For renting purposes ME1 2 sits in Medway. The ONS average private rent there is £1,238 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on ME1 2 (Borstal)
Is ME1 2 (Borstal) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME1 2 (Borstal)?
Are property prices falling in ME1 2 (Borstal)?
Where do ME1 2 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
ME1's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 14 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME1 district, not just ME1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
43% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the ME area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
ME area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in ME1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME1 1 | £245,000 | 39 |
| 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.
Selling in ME1 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME1 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME1 2 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.