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Kemsley market report ME10 3, Sittingbourne
The ME10 3 (Kemsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,341 registered sales in ME10 3 (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: the middle 2026 sale in ME10 3 (Sittingbourne) came in at £265,000, out of 62 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £270,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,450 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,341 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME10 3 is one sector of ME10 (Sittingbourne): 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 ME10 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.
ME10 3 sold prices: where the market stands
62 sales were registered in ME10 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £265,000. The mean works out at £270,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in ME10 3
A square metre of ME10 3 home has cost about £3,450 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME10 3 runs 7% below it.
The price of a typical ME10 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 62 |
| 2025 | £267,500 | £273,897 | 173 |
| 2024 | £252,500 | £268,459 | 162 |
| 2023 | £282,500 | £310,399 | 112 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 186 |
| 2021 | £244,000 | £308,935 | 232 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 184 |
| 2019 | £232,200 | £304,359 | 172 |
| 2018 | £237,000 | £315,925 | 237 |
| 2017 | £219,200 | £298,967 | 232 |
| 2016 | £192,500 | £269,309 | 224 |
| 2015 | £162,000 | £228,906 | 183 |
| 2014 | £153,000 | £217,057 | 147 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 152 |
| 2012 | £127,000 | £186,928 | 113 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 127 |
| 2010 | £122,200 | £191,641 | 120 |
| 2009 | £123,500 | £198,527 | 79 |
| 2008 | £129,000 | £211,458 | 84 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 223 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 192 |
| 2005 | £118,000 | £209,992 | 168 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 178 |
| 2003 | £98,000 | £180,540 | 193 |
| 2002 | £79,000 | £148,638 | 187 |
| 2001 | £65,000 | £124,959 | 220 |
| 2000 | £57,200 | £112,255 | 200 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 209 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 165 |
| 1997 | £40,100 | £82,237 | 158 |
| 1996 | £39,400 | £83,093 | 116 |
| 1995 | £39,500 | £85,867 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical ME10 3 home went from £39,500 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 209%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME10 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 2003 (+24.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−10.6%). 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) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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 ME10 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in ME10 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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.
The shape of the ME10 3 market
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.
Rents around ME10 3
For renting purposes ME10 3 sits in Swale. The ONS average private rent there is £1,091 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £763 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,820 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,091 a month is £13,092 a year, which against the £265,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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.
What people ask about ME10 3 (Kemsley)
Are property prices falling in ME10 3 (Kemsley)?
Is ME10 3 (Kemsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME10 3 (Kemsley)?
Where do ME10 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
ME10's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME10 district, not just ME10 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in ME10
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME10's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME10 1 | £301,200 | 88 |
| ME10 2 | £281,500 | 88 |
| 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.
Before you sell in ME10 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME10 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME10 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME10 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME10 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME10 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME10 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME10 3 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.
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.