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Hoo Peninsula market report ME3 7, Rochester
The ME3 7 (Hoo Peninsula) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,944 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME3 7 (Rochester) 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: the 2026 median for ME3 7 (Rochester) is £415,000, from 28 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £453,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,330 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,944 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME3 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME3 (Rochester). 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 ME3 7 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.
ME3 7 sold prices: where the market stands
28 sales were registered in ME3 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £415,000. The mean works out at £453,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in ME3 7
The last five years of sales put ME3 7 at roughly £4,330 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME3 7 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
A typical ME3 7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 81 |
| 2024 | £357,500 | £380,096 | 67 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 57 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 75 |
| 2021 | £369,400 | £467,708 | 126 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 75 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 91 |
| 2018 | £330,500 | £440,563 | 78 |
| 2017 | £318,000 | £433,720 | 77 |
| 2016 | £273,500 | £382,629 | 84 |
| 2015 | £262,000 | £370,206 | 93 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 107 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 102 |
| 2012 | £187,000 | £275,241 | 89 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 82 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 67 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 50 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 62 |
| 2007 | £202,500 | £343,496 | 127 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 122 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 74 |
| 2004 | £172,800 | £313,839 | 90 |
| 2003 | £163,200 | £300,654 | 106 |
| 2002 | £137,500 | £258,705 | 123 |
| 2001 | £124,000 | £238,384 | 147 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 103 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 121 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 158 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 106 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 97 |
| 1995 | £59,000 | £128,257 | 79 |
In cash terms the typical ME3 7 home went from £59,000 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 224%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME3 7 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 2000 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.0%). 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) | +9.2% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
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.
ME3 7 recorded 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market ME3 7 is
This is a thin market: 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within ME3, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around ME3 7
The local authority for ME3 7 is Gravesham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,328 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £904 a month here against £2,069 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Gravesham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £415,000 median sold price, £1,328 a month is £15,936 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
ME3 7 (Hoo Peninsula): the questions that come up
Is ME3 7 (Hoo Peninsula) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME3 7 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Are property prices falling in ME3 7 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Are ME3 7 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What is for sale in ME3 right now
The live side of the market holds 7 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME3 district, not just ME3 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 ME3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
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.
ME area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME3 0 | £246,000 | 10 |
| ME3 8 | £425,000 | 56 |
| ME3 9 | £340,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full ME3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME3 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME3 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME3 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME3 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME3 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME3 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME3 7 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.
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.