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Hoo Peninsula market report ME3 9, Rochester
The ME3 9 (Hoo Peninsula) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,484 HM Land Registry entries for ME3 9 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 57 registered 2026 sales put the ME3 9 (Rochester) median at £340,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £343,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,484 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME3 9 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 9 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.
What a home in ME3 9 sells for
57 sales were registered in ME3 9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £340,000. The mean works out at £343,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in ME3 9
By floor space, homes in ME3 9 have sold for about £3,880 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, ME3 9 runs 19% above it.
The price of a typical ME3 9 home, 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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £330,000 | £337,891 | 164 |
| 2024 | £345,000 | £366,806 | 191 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 192 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 241 |
| 2021 | £330,500 | £418,456 | 300 |
| 2020 | £326,500 | £423,640 | 251 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 262 |
| 2018 | £272,000 | £362,581 | 159 |
| 2017 | £265,500 | £362,115 | 154 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 194 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 220 |
| 2014 | £192,500 | £273,095 | 157 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 153 |
| 2012 | £187,500 | £275,977 | 187 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 187 |
| 2010 | £183,000 | £286,991 | 149 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 184 |
| 2008 | £187,600 | £307,516 | 151 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 220 |
| 2006 | £161,000 | £279,475 | 165 |
| 2005 | £153,500 | £273,168 | 99 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 129 |
| 2003 | £128,500 | £236,728 | 142 |
| 2002 | £117,200 | £220,511 | 168 |
| 2001 | £92,500 | £177,827 | 157 |
| 2000 | £78,000 | £153,075 | 150 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 177 |
| 1998 | £66,800 | £134,841 | 138 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 157 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 109 |
| 1995 | £50,800 | £110,431 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical ME3 9 home went from £50,800 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 208%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME3 9 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 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME3 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in ME3 9
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
ME3 9 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 169 sales a year recently, against 154 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around ME3 9
For renting purposes ME3 9 sits in Medway. The ONS average private rent there is £1,238 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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.
How ME3 9 trades
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME3 9 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 ME3 district median, ME3 9 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about ME3 9 (Hoo Peninsula)
Is ME3 9 (Hoo Peninsula) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME3 9 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Are property prices falling in ME3 9 (Hoo Peninsula)?
Are ME3 9 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
What is for sale in ME3 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 7 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME3 district, not just ME3 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in ME
Real sold prices by size across the ME area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME3 0 | £246,000 | 10 |
| ME3 7 | £415,000 | 28 |
| ME3 8 | £425,000 | 56 |
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 9: 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 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME3 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME3 9 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 9.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME3 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME3 9 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.