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Hoo Peninsula market report ME3 8, Rochester
The standing ME3 8 (Hoo Peninsula) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,252 HM Land Registry entries for ME3 8 (Rochester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere 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 ME3 8 (Rochester) home changed hands for £425,000 in 2026 (median of 56 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £440,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,252 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME3 8 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 8 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 8 sold prices: where the market stands
In the ME3 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £425,000, from 56 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £440,000, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in ME3 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of ME3 8 sales average about £4,140 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME3 8 sits 49% above the national market.
ME3 8'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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £426,000 | £436,187 | 175 |
| 2024 | £432,500 | £459,836 | 172 |
| 2023 | £422,500 | £464,224 | 118 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 186 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 279 |
| 2020 | £358,000 | £464,512 | 161 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 190 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 141 |
| 2017 | £308,500 | £420,763 | 140 |
| 2016 | £292,500 | £409,210 | 153 |
| 2015 | £257,500 | £363,848 | 199 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 218 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 211 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 153 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 123 |
| 2010 | £214,200 | £335,921 | 148 |
| 2009 | £197,000 | £316,679 | 105 |
| 2008 | £222,500 | £364,724 | 100 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 258 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 173 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 161 |
| 2004 | £201,000 | £365,055 | 154 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 199 |
| 2002 | £158,000 | £297,276 | 210 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 220 |
| 2000 | £121,800 | £239,033 | 226 |
| 1999 | £104,000 | £207,267 | 143 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 219 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 103 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 92 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical ME3 8 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 221%, 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 ME3 8 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 1999 (+38.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in ME3 8
Sales per year, counted
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 56 ME3 8 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 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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.
How ME3 8 trades
This is a thin market: 56 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. Against the ME3 district median, ME3 8 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around ME3 8
The local authority for ME3 8 is Medway, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,238 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £900 a month here against £1,835 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, which against the £425,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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 people ask about ME3 8 (Hoo Peninsula)
Is ME3 8 (Hoo Peninsula) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME3 8 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Are property prices falling in ME3 8 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Will ME3 8 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 ME3 today
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 ME3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the ME area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME3 0 | £246,000 | 10 |
| ME3 7 | £415,000 | 28 |
| 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.
Selling in ME3 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME3 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME3 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME3 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working ME3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME3 8.
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The live map plots every individual ME3 8 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.