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Kemsley market report ME10, Sittingbourne
The ME10 (Kemsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 29,383 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME10 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 305 registered 2026 sales put the ME10 (Sittingbourne) median at £284,000, up 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £293,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,640 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 29,383 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME10 is a postcode district covering Sittingbourne, Kemsley, Milton Regis in Sittingbourne. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where ME10 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.
Today's ME10 prices, from the sold record
In the ME10 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £284,000, from 305 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £293,300, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in ME10
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME10 costs about £3,640 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME10 runs 0% below it.
ME10's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £284,000 | £284,000 | 305 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 818 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 805 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 665 |
| 2022 | £299,000 | £350,612 | 908 |
| 2021 | £256,900 | £325,269 | 1,026 |
| 2020 | £249,000 | £323,083 | 766 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 863 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 922 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 929 |
| 2016 | £216,000 | £302,186 | 1,019 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 929 |
| 2014 | £167,100 | £237,061 | 916 |
| 2013 | £158,500 | £228,066 | 717 |
| 2012 | £152,500 | £224,461 | 640 |
| 2011 | £149,500 | £225,688 | 617 |
| 2010 | £149,100 | £233,827 | 627 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 545 |
| 2008 | £154,000 | £252,439 | 595 |
| 2007 | £155,500 | £263,771 | 1,513 |
| 2006 | £154,000 | £267,324 | 1,461 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 1,002 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 1,202 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 1,166 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 1,339 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 1,291 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 1,270 |
| 1999 | £62,000 | £123,563 | 1,166 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 944 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 935 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 722 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 760 |
In cash terms the typical ME10 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £284,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 187%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 19% 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 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−3.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME10 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.7% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £416,000 against £177,500 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, ME10
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £416,000 | 38 | 5,084 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 98 | 9,239 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 129 | 11,738 |
| Flats | £177,500 | 40 | 3,322 |
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 636 ME10 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,281 sales a year before the financial crisis and 700 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around ME10
ME10 falls under Swale, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £284,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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 kind of market ME10 is
In its area's price order ME10 comes 17 of 20, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: ME10 (Kemsley)
Are property prices falling in ME10 (Kemsley)?
Is ME10 (Kemsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME10 (Kemsley)?
Will ME10 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in ME10 today
Everything above is what homes in ME10 sold for. The live side of the market holds 54 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the ME10 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every ME10 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME10 ranks 5 of 20 in the ME area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside ME10, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| ME10 5 | £275,000 | 24 |
How ME10 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £377,500 | +16% |
| ME3 | £375,000 | +8% |
| ME17 | £375,000 | -1% |
| ME16 | £352,000 | +7% |
| ME9 | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME15 | £338,000 | +4% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME14 | £323,800 | -3% |
| ME5 | £305,000 | +11% |
| ME1 | £302,800 | +7% |
| ME6 | £288,500 | +1% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME10 (this report) | £284,000 | +11% |
| ME7 | £268,500 | +9% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 | £249,500 | +4% |
Selling a home in ME10? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME10'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.
Estate agents working ME10: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME10.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME10 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME10 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.