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Brompton market report ME4 3, Chatham
The ME4 3 (Brompton) house price history in full, 1996 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,128 registered sales in ME4 3 (Chatham) since 1996, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 23 registered 2026 sales put the ME4 3 (Chatham) median at £345,000, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £389,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,000 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,128 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1996, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
ME4 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME4 (Chatham). 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 ME4 3 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 ME4 3 homes really sell for
The ME4 3 median stands at £345,000 for 2026, built from 23 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £389,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in ME4 3
A square metre of ME4 3 home has cost about £4,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME4 3 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
A typical ME4 3 home, priced year by year (1996 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 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £366,000 | £374,752 | 61 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 69 |
| 2023 | £373,500 | £410,385 | 128 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 90 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 120 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 91 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 113 |
| 2018 | £352,200 | £469,489 | 68 |
| 2017 | £367,500 | £501,233 | 138 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 78 |
| 2015 | £230,200 | £325,273 | 114 |
| 2014 | £249,000 | £353,250 | 70 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 79 |
| 2012 | £242,500 | £356,930 | 57 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 107 |
| 2010 | £240,500 | £377,166 | 40 |
| 2009 | £236,200 | £379,694 | 56 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 107 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 127 |
| 2006 | £204,000 | £354,118 | 158 |
| 2005 | £204,000 | £363,038 | 133 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 107 |
| 2003 | £220,000 | £405,293 | 175 |
| 2002 | £178,000 | £334,905 | 115 |
| 2001 | £148,000 | £284,522 | 232 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 201 |
| 1999 | £140,000 | £279,013 | 148 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 65 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 55 |
| 1996 | £95,000 | £200,351 | 3 |
In cash terms the typical ME4 3 home went from £95,000 in 1996 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 3.6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 72%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME4 3 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 1998 (+105.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−28.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME4 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The register shows 23 ME4 3 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 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
What tenants pay around ME4 3
ME4 3 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.
Set against the £345,000 median sold price, £1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Reading the ME4 3 market
This is a thin market: 23 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the ME4 district median, ME4 3 sits 38% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on ME4 3 (Brompton)
Is ME4 3 (Brompton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME4 3 (Brompton)?
Are property prices falling in ME4 3 (Brompton)?
Are ME4 3 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
ME4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 7 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME4 district, not just ME4 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 ME4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME4 4 | £180,000 | 22 |
| ME4 5 | £236,000 | 34 |
| ME4 6 | £274,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full ME4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME4 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME4 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME4 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME4 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME4 3.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about ME4 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME4 3 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.
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.