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Walderslade market report ME5 7, Chatham
The standing ME5 7 (Walderslade) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,417 HM Land Registry entries for ME5 7 (Chatham), 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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical ME5 7 (Chatham) home changed hands for £285,000 in 2026 (median of 69 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier), with the mean at £277,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,417 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME5 7 is one sector of ME5 (Chatham): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ME5 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.
What buyers actually paid in ME5 7
The 2026 median for ME5 7 is £285,000, taken from 69 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £277,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in ME5 7
By floor space, homes in ME5 7 have sold for about £3,720 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME5 7 0% above the country at large.
ME5 7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 161 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 170 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 131 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 213 |
| 2021 | £237,500 | £300,706 | 236 |
| 2020 | £224,500 | £291,293 | 154 |
| 2019 | £212,500 | £278,537 | 206 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 217 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 234 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 258 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 260 |
| 2014 | £151,500 | £214,929 | 201 |
| 2013 | £133,000 | £191,374 | 193 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 175 |
| 2011 | £130,000 | £196,250 | 176 |
| 2010 | £129,500 | £203,089 | 116 |
| 2009 | £128,200 | £206,083 | 126 |
| 2008 | £137,500 | £225,392 | 170 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 447 |
| 2006 | £130,000 | £225,663 | 414 |
| 2005 | £123,000 | £218,890 | 300 |
| 2004 | £116,000 | £210,679 | 432 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 420 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 437 |
| 2001 | £68,000 | £130,727 | 466 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 447 |
| 1999 | £52,500 | £104,630 | 416 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 350 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 339 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 257 |
| 1995 | £42,700 | £92,823 | 226 |
In cash terms the typical ME5 7 home went from £42,700 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 207%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 7% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME5 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 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME5 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.1% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 69 sales completed in ME5 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 420 sales a year before the financial crisis and 149 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 ME5 7
The local authority for ME5 7 is Medway, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £285,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 5.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on ME5 7 (Walderslade)
Is ME5 7 (Walderslade) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME5 7 (Walderslade)?
Are property prices falling in ME5 7 (Walderslade)?
What happens to ME5 7 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% 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.
ME5's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 5 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME5 district, not just ME5 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 ME5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in ME
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 | £322,000 | £360,000 (+12%) | £425,000 (+18%) | £510,000 (+20%) | £600,000 (+18%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £310,000 (+13%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £425,000 (+20%) | £525,500 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £221,250 | £263,580 (+19%) | £285,000 (+8%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £430,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £158,000 | £200,000 (+27%) | £260,000 (+30%) | £332,500 (+28%) | £399,950 (+20%) |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, ME area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of ME5, each linking to its own report:
Zoom out to the full ME5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ME5 7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME5 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME5 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME5 7 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.
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.