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Brompton market report ME4, Chatham
The ME4 (Brompton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 18,135 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME4 (Chatham) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for ME4 (Chatham) is £249,500, from 116 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £287,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,410 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 18,135 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME4 is a postcode district covering Chatham, Brompton, Luton in Chatham. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where ME4 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 ME4 sells for
The ME4 median stands at £249,500 for 2026, built from 116 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £287,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in ME4
Per square metre, ME4 homes have averaged around £3,410 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME4 sits 12% below the national market.
The price of a typical ME4 home, 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 | £249,500 | £249,500 | 116 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 351 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 361 |
| 2023 | £252,000 | £276,886 | 562 |
| 2022 | £255,000 | £299,017 | 520 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 652 |
| 2020 | £227,500 | £295,186 | 413 |
| 2019 | £217,500 | £285,090 | 485 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 509 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 612 |
| 2016 | £178,000 | £249,024 | 568 |
| 2015 | £158,000 | £223,254 | 605 |
| 2014 | £144,000 | £204,289 | 516 |
| 2013 | £135,200 | £194,539 | 452 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 345 |
| 2011 | £127,000 | £191,721 | 402 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 312 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 325 |
| 2008 | £134,500 | £220,474 | 444 |
| 2007 | £132,400 | £224,587 | 854 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 821 |
| 2005 | £120,000 | £213,552 | 716 |
| 2004 | £118,000 | £214,311 | 806 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 994 |
| 2002 | £82,000 | £154,282 | 914 |
| 2001 | £68,500 | £131,688 | 1,040 |
| 2000 | £57,000 | £111,863 | 872 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 706 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 586 |
| 1997 | £38,500 | £78,956 | 553 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 363 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 360 |
In cash terms the typical ME4 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £249,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 228%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME4 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 2003 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−6.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 59% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £509,500 against £166,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, ME4
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £509,500 | 8 | 1,291 |
| Semi-detached | £388,000 | 9 | 2,200 |
| Terraced | £265,000 | 63 | 10,657 |
| Flats | £166,000 | 36 | 3,987 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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 ME4
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
ME4 recorded 265 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 877 sales a year before the financial crisis and 382 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 ME4 is
ME4 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
The rental side of ME4
For renting purposes ME4 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 £249,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.0%. 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 ME4 (Brompton)
How much did a house sell for in ME4 (Brompton)?
Are property prices falling in ME4 (Brompton)?
Is ME4 (Brompton) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in ME4 now
Everything above is what homes in ME4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 7 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the ME4 median sold price.
17% 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" 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME4 ranks 13 of 20 in the ME area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside ME4, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME4 3 | £345,000 | 23 |
| ME4 4 | £180,000 | 22 |
| ME4 5 | £236,000 | 34 |
| ME4 6 | £274,000 | 37 |
How ME4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £498,000 | +3% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £377,500 | +16% |
| ME3 | £375,000 | +8% |
| ME17 | £375,000 | -1% |
| ME16 | £352,000 | +7% |
| ME9 | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME15 | £338,000 | +4% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME14 | £323,800 | -3% |
| ME5 | £305,000 | +11% |
| ME1 | £302,800 | +7% |
| ME6 | £288,500 | +1% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME10 | £284,000 | +11% |
| ME7 | £268,500 | +9% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 (this report) | £249,500 | +4% |
Thinking of selling in ME4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in ME4, open the average prices map and zoom from the ME4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded ME4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.