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Kemsley market report ME10 5, Sittingbourne
The ME10 5 (Kemsley) house price history in full, 1999 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,735 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME10 5 (Sittingbourne) since 1999, 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 ME10 5 (Sittingbourne) came in at £275,000, out of 24 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £284,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,590 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,735 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1999, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like ME10 5 is a single group of streets within ME10 (Sittingbourne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME10 5 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.
The going rate for a home in ME10 5
In the ME10 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £275,000, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £284,000, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in ME10 5
The last five years of sales put ME10 5 at roughly £3,590 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME10 5 sits 4% below the national market.
A typical ME10 5 home, priced year by year (1999 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £275,000 | £275,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 57 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 55 |
| 2023 | £281,000 | £308,750 | 55 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 77 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 90 |
| 2020 | £245,500 | £318,541 | 64 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 78 |
| 2018 | £222,500 | £296,597 | 78 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 129 |
| 2016 | £246,500 | £344,856 | 134 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 145 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 123 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 65 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 71 |
| 2011 | £143,000 | £215,875 | 31 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 62 |
| 2009 | £166,000 | £266,846 | 37 |
| 2008 | £186,500 | £305,713 | 67 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 217 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 183 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 111 |
| 2004 | £176,100 | £319,832 | 168 |
| 2003 | £151,000 | £278,179 | 113 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 131 |
| 2001 | £118,600 | £228,002 | 197 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 139 |
| 1999 | £107,200 | £213,644 | 34 |
In cash terms the typical ME10 5 home went from £107,200 in 1999 to £275,000 in 2026, roughly 2.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 29%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME10 5 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 2008 (+55.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2007 (−33.3%). 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) | −15.4% | −17.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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 ME10 5
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.
ME10 5 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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 kind of market ME10 5 is
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME10 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What tenants pay around ME10 5
The local authority for ME10 5 is Swale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £763 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,820, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £275,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Common questions on ME10 5 (Kemsley)
Is ME10 5 (Kemsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME10 5 (Kemsley)?
Are property prices falling in ME10 5 (Kemsley)?
Are ME10 5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 ME10 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 54 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME10 district, not just ME10 5: 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, ...
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- Walnut Tree Drive, Sittingbourne, ME10
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 ME10 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.
What another bedroom costs 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 | £301,200 | 88 |
| ME10 2 | £281,500 | 88 |
| ME10 3 | £265,000 | 62 |
| ME10 4 | £300,000 | 43 |
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 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME10 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME10 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME10 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working ME10 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME10 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME10 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME10 5 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.