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Kemsley market report ME10 2, Sittingbourne
The standing ME10 2 (Kemsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,360 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME10 2 (Sittingbourne) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for ME10 2 (Sittingbourne) is £290,000, from 104 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier; the mean is £282,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,710 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,360 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME10 2 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 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.
What buyers actually paid in ME10 2
The ME10 2 median stands at £290,000 for 2026, built from 104 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £282,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in ME10 2
The last five years of sales put ME10 2 at roughly £3,710 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 ME10 2 2% above the national figure.
A typical ME10 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 104 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 233 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 235 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 205 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 285 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 314 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 210 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 297 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 264 |
| 2017 | £225,000 | £306,877 | 241 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 268 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 239 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 248 |
| 2013 | £157,000 | £225,907 | 166 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 178 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 137 |
| 2010 | £142,000 | £222,693 | 153 |
| 2009 | £139,200 | £223,765 | 147 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 192 |
| 2007 | £158,800 | £269,369 | 522 |
| 2006 | £147,200 | £255,520 | 520 |
| 2005 | £135,500 | £241,135 | 328 |
| 2004 | £130,000 | £236,105 | 401 |
| 2003 | £122,200 | £225,122 | 422 |
| 2002 | £102,500 | £192,853 | 487 |
| 2001 | £83,500 | £160,524 | 425 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 502 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 444 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 377 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 337 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 223 |
| 1995 | £40,800 | £88,693 | 256 |
In cash terms the typical ME10 2 home went from £40,800 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 227%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. 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 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 2002 (+22.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME10 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.9% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 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.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 104 sales completed in ME10 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 451 sales a year before the financial crisis and 212 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 ME10 2
For renting purposes ME10 2 sits in Swale. The ONS average private rent there is £1,091 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £290,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,091 a month (£13,092 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Asked and answered: ME10 2 (Kemsley)
Is ME10 2 (Kemsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME10 2 (Kemsley)?
Are property prices falling in ME10 2 (Kemsley)?
Where do ME10 2 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight 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 | £322,000 | £360,000 (+12%) | £425,000 (+18%) | £510,000 (+20%) | £600,000 (+18%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £310,000 (+13%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £425,000 (+20%) | £525,500 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £221,250 | £263,580 (+19%) | £285,000 (+8%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £430,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £158,000 | £200,000 (+27%) | £260,000 (+30%) | £332,500 (+28%) | £399,950 (+20%) |
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
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 ME10
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME10, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME10 1 | £300,000 | 99 |
| ME10 3 | £261,500 | 76 |
| ME10 4 | £320,000 | 54 |
| ME10 5 | £320,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full ME10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME10 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME10 2? 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 2'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.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME10 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME10 2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.