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Isle of Sheppey market report ME12 4, Sheerness
The ME12 4 (Isle of Sheppey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,306 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME12 4 (Sheerness) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the ME12 4 (Sheerness) median at £286,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £319,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,306 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME12 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME12 (Sheerness). 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 ME12 4 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 4 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 32 registered 2026 sales in ME12 4 and the middle price, the median, is £286,000. The mean lands at £319,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ME12 4
By floor space, homes in ME12 4 have sold for about £3,290 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving ME12 4 0% above the national figure.
A typical ME12 4 home, priced year by year (1995 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £286,000 | £286,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 93 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 51 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 61 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 84 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 109 |
| 2020 | £232,500 | £301,674 | 90 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 60 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 98 |
| 2017 | £207,000 | £282,327 | 105 |
| 2016 | £208,000 | £290,994 | 121 |
| 2015 | £194,800 | £275,252 | 112 |
| 2014 | £157,500 | £223,441 | 105 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 83 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 81 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 77 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 71 |
| 2009 | £128,800 | £207,047 | 72 |
| 2008 | £155,000 | £254,078 | 65 |
| 2007 | £149,000 | £252,745 | 146 |
| 2006 | £153,000 | £265,588 | 159 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 125 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 152 |
| 2003 | £109,500 | £201,726 | 160 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 159 |
| 2001 | £72,000 | £138,416 | 163 |
| 2000 | £62,000 | £121,675 | 162 |
| 1999 | £58,200 | £115,990 | 146 |
| 1998 | £47,000 | £94,873 | 101 |
| 1997 | £46,800 | £95,977 | 118 |
| 1996 | £40,800 | £86,045 | 74 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical ME12 4 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £286,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 199%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the ME12 4 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 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.4% | +11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 32 ME12 4 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 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
Reading the ME12 4 market
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME12 4 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.
The rental side of ME12 4
ME12 4 falls under Swale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,091 a month is £13,092 a year, which against the £286,000 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.
Asked and answered: ME12 4 (Isle of Sheppey)
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Where do ME12 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% 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.
ME12's current homes for sale
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 4: 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.
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 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
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight 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. 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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME12 1 | £235,000 | 16 |
| ME12 2 | £287,200 | 72 |
| ME12 3 | £300,000 | 88 |
Zoom out to the full ME12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME12 4? 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 ME12 4'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME12 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME12 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME12 4 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.