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Strood market report ME2 2, Rochester
The ME2 2 (Strood) 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: 7,325 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME2 2 (Rochester) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 54 registered 2026 sales put the ME2 2 (Rochester) median at £285,200, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £291,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,840 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,325 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like ME2 2 is a single group of streets within ME2 (Rochester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME2 2 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 ME2 2
54 sales were registered in ME2 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £285,200. The mean works out at £291,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
ME2 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME2 2 sales average about £3,840 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME2 2 0% above the country at large.
ME2 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,200 | £285,200 | 54 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 207 |
| 2024 | £296,000 | £314,709 | 182 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 178 |
| 2022 | £292,500 | £342,990 | 226 |
| 2021 | £259,500 | £328,560 | 302 |
| 2020 | £247,000 | £320,488 | 207 |
| 2019 | £244,000 | £319,826 | 220 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 259 |
| 2017 | £228,000 | £310,969 | 232 |
| 2016 | £214,000 | £299,388 | 273 |
| 2015 | £182,500 | £257,873 | 219 |
| 2014 | £164,000 | £232,663 | 227 |
| 2013 | £144,000 | £207,202 | 175 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 151 |
| 2011 | £130,800 | £197,458 | 176 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 178 |
| 2009 | £139,000 | £223,444 | 207 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 191 |
| 2007 | £152,000 | £257,834 | 331 |
| 2006 | £133,200 | £231,218 | 284 |
| 2005 | £133,000 | £236,686 | 205 |
| 2004 | £126,200 | £229,204 | 282 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 312 |
| 2002 | £94,000 | £176,860 | 279 |
| 2001 | £73,000 | £140,339 | 313 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 282 |
| 1999 | £53,000 | £105,626 | 264 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 252 |
| 1997 | £47,200 | £96,798 | 250 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 224 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 183 |
In cash terms the typical ME2 2 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £285,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME2 2 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 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.1%). 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) | −4.9% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 54 ME2 2 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 286 sales a year before the financial crisis and 169 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 ME2 2 market
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME2 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the ME2 district median, ME2 2 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around ME2 2
ME2 2 falls under Medway, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,238 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £900 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,835 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £285,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 5.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: ME2 2 (Strood)
Are property prices falling in ME2 2 (Strood)?
Is ME2 2 (Strood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME2 2 (Strood)?
Will ME2 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in ME2 today
Turning to what is actually available: 5 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME2 district, not just ME2 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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" 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 ME2 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
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 ME2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME2 1 | £430,000 | 29 |
| ME2 3 | £350,000 | 70 |
| ME2 4 | £322,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full ME2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME2 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME2 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME2 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME2 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME2 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME2 2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.