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Walderslade market report ME5 8, Chatham
The ME5 8 (Walderslade) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,996 registered sales in ME5 8 (Chatham) since 1995, 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: 96 registered 2026 sales put the ME5 8 (Chatham) median at £310,000, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £323,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,996 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like ME5 8 is a single group of streets within ME5 (Chatham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where ME5 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.
What ME5 8 homes really sell for
In the ME5 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £310,000, from 96 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £323,600, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
ME5 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, ME5 8 homes have averaged around £3,980 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so ME5 8 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical ME5 8 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 96 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 221 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 199 |
| 2023 | £294,800 | £323,913 | 181 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 234 |
| 2021 | £270,000 | £341,855 | 264 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 202 |
| 2019 | £246,000 | £322,447 | 220 |
| 2018 | £242,500 | £323,257 | 239 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 261 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 260 |
| 2015 | £191,500 | £270,590 | 252 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 256 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 226 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 203 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 165 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 159 |
| 2009 | £138,500 | £222,640 | 166 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 159 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 389 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 436 |
| 2005 | £139,300 | £247,898 | 282 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 444 |
| 2003 | £123,800 | £228,070 | 396 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 445 |
| 2001 | £82,500 | £158,602 | 484 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 441 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 441 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 369 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 375 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 278 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 253 |
In cash terms the typical ME5 8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 203%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME5 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 2003 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 96 ME5 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 415 sales a year before the financial crisis and 186 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.
Rents around ME5 8
ME5 8 falls under Medway, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,238 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £900 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,835, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
What people ask about ME5 8 (Walderslade)
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What happens to ME5 8 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
ME5's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 4 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME5 district, not just ME5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in ME
What homes of each size actually sold for across the ME area, 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
ME area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in ME5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME5 0 | £295,000 | 57 |
| ME5 7 | £281,500 | 60 |
| ME5 9 | £360,000 | 77 |
Zoom out to the full ME5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in ME5 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME5 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim ME5 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME5 8 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.