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Borstal market report ME1 3, Rochester
The ME1 3 (Borstal) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,053 registered sales in ME1 3 (Rochester) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 61 registered 2026 sales put the ME1 3 (Rochester) median at £303,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £313,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,930 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,053 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like ME1 3 is a single group of streets within ME1 (Rochester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME1 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
61 sales were registered in ME1 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £303,000. The mean works out at £313,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in ME1 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME1 3 costs about £3,930 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME1 3 6% above the country at large.
The price of a typical ME1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £303,000 | £303,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 192 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 177 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 170 |
| 2022 | £324,000 | £379,927 | 246 |
| 2021 | £287,500 | £364,012 | 297 |
| 2020 | £317,800 | £412,352 | 276 |
| 2019 | £297,000 | £389,296 | 257 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 237 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 199 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 157 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 162 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 198 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 127 |
| 2012 | £174,400 | £256,695 | 136 |
| 2011 | £175,100 | £264,334 | 109 |
| 2010 | £157,000 | £246,216 | 75 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 110 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 141 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 246 |
| 2006 | £153,800 | £266,977 | 250 |
| 2005 | £148,900 | £264,982 | 196 |
| 2004 | £143,500 | £260,624 | 217 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 261 |
| 2002 | £118,500 | £222,957 | 300 |
| 2001 | £86,200 | £165,715 | 268 |
| 2000 | £75,500 | £148,169 | 188 |
| 1999 | £63,200 | £125,954 | 178 |
| 1998 | £55,500 | £112,031 | 168 |
| 1997 | £59,700 | £122,433 | 182 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 147 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical ME1 3 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £303,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 179%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME1 3 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 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in ME1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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.
Rents around ME1 3
ME1 3 falls under Medway, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,238 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £900 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,835 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £303,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
ME1 3 (Borstal): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in ME1 3 (Borstal)?
Are property prices falling in ME1 3 (Borstal)?
Is ME1 3 (Borstal) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to ME1 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in ME1 today
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 3: 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
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 ME1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 1 | £245,000 | 39 |
| ME1 2 | £320,000 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full ME1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in ME1 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME1 3 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 ME1 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME1 3 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.
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.