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Kemsley market report ME10 1, Sittingbourne
The ME10 1 (Kemsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 7,364 registered sales in ME10 1 (Sittingbourne) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 88 registered 2026 sales put the ME10 1 (Sittingbourne) median at £301,200, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £318,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,364 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME10 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME10 (Sittingbourne). 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.
Where ME10 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 ME10 1 homes really sell for
In the ME10 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £301,200, from 88 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £318,800, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ME10 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME10 1 costs about £3,810 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME10 1 trades 6% above the country as a whole.
ME10 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £301,200 | £301,200 | 88 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 223 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 213 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 177 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 209 |
| 2021 | £276,500 | £350,085 | 234 |
| 2020 | £276,000 | £358,116 | 179 |
| 2019 | £251,000 | £329,001 | 181 |
| 2018 | £256,000 | £341,253 | 194 |
| 2017 | £256,200 | £349,431 | 194 |
| 2016 | £230,200 | £322,052 | 239 |
| 2015 | £222,000 | £313,686 | 226 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 247 |
| 2013 | £168,000 | £241,735 | 209 |
| 2012 | £167,000 | £245,803 | 166 |
| 2011 | £161,200 | £243,350 | 192 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 151 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 156 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 112 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 299 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 288 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 226 |
| 2004 | £153,500 | £278,786 | 279 |
| 2003 | £133,700 | £246,308 | 298 |
| 2002 | £120,800 | £227,284 | 380 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 311 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 303 |
| 1999 | £70,700 | £140,901 | 322 |
| 1998 | £64,700 | £130,602 | 280 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 303 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 258 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 227 |
In cash terms the typical ME10 1 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £301,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME10 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 2002 (+27.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME10 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
ME10 1 recorded 88 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 298 sales a year before the financial crisis and 182 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 rental side of ME10 1
The local authority for ME10 1 is Swale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £763 a month here against £1,820 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Swale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £301,200 median sold price, £1,091 a month is £13,092 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Asked and answered: ME10 1 (Kemsley)
Is ME10 1 (Kemsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME10 1 (Kemsley)?
Are property prices falling in ME10 1 (Kemsley)?
What happens to ME10 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in ME10 now
Turning to what is actually available: 54 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME10 district, not just ME10 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Premier Way, Kemsley, Sittingbourne, ...
- All Saints Road, Sittingbourne, Kent,...
- Walnut Tree Drive, Sittingbourne, ME10
"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 ME10 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME10 2 | £281,500 | 88 |
| ME10 3 | £265,000 | 62 |
| ME10 4 | £300,000 | 43 |
| ME10 5 | £275,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full ME10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME10 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME10 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME10 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME10 1.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ME10 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME10 1 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.