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Isle of Sheppey market report ME12 1, Sheerness
The ME12 1 (Isle of Sheppey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,325 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME12 1 (Sheerness) since 1995, 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: a typical ME12 1 (Sheerness) home changed hands for £235,000 in 2026 (median of 16 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier), with the mean at £224,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,700 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,325 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like ME12 1 is a single group of streets within ME12 (Sheerness), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME12 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.
ME12 1 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for ME12 1 is £235,000, taken from 16 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £224,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
ME12 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME12 1 sales average about £2,700 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME12 1 runs 18% below it.
ME12 1's median sold price, 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 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £237,500 | £243,179 | 50 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 47 |
| 2023 | £223,800 | £245,902 | 32 |
| 2022 | £231,500 | £271,460 | 58 |
| 2021 | £190,000 | £240,565 | 59 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 41 |
| 2019 | £185,000 | £242,491 | 47 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 68 |
| 2017 | £177,000 | £241,410 | 79 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 65 |
| 2015 | £136,200 | £192,451 | 78 |
| 2014 | £135,000 | £191,521 | 67 |
| 2013 | £110,000 | £158,279 | 73 |
| 2012 | £113,500 | £167,058 | 52 |
| 2011 | £96,500 | £145,678 | 50 |
| 2010 | £105,000 | £164,667 | 54 |
| 2009 | £107,000 | £172,003 | 45 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 67 |
| 2007 | £132,800 | £225,266 | 142 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 115 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 91 |
| 2004 | £107,000 | £194,333 | 135 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 105 |
| 2002 | £70,000 | £131,704 | 113 |
| 2001 | £58,000 | £111,502 | 97 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 115 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 79 |
| 1998 | £40,500 | £81,752 | 65 |
| 1997 | £38,200 | £78,340 | 92 |
| 1996 | £35,500 | £74,868 | 72 |
| 1995 | £32,500 | £70,650 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical ME12 1 home went from £32,500 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 233%: 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 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME12 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 2003 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME12 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.3% | −0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
ME12 1 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 114 sales a year before the financial crisis and 41 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 ME12 1
The local authority for ME12 1 is Swale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £235,000 median sold price, £1,091 a month is £13,092 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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.
How ME12 1 trades
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME12 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within ME12, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: ME12 1 (Isle of Sheppey)
How much did a house sell for in ME12 1 (Isle of Sheppey)?
Are property prices falling in ME12 1 (Isle of Sheppey)?
Is ME12 1 (Isle of Sheppey) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME12 1 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in ME12 now
The live side of the market holds 12 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME12 district, not just ME12 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
8% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 ME12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
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. 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.
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 ME12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME12 2 | £287,200 | 72 |
| ME12 3 | £300,000 | 88 |
| ME12 4 | £286,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full ME12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in ME12 1? 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 ME12 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME12 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME12 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME12 1 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.