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Walderslade market report ME5 9, Chatham
The standing ME5 9 (Walderslade) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,970 HM Land Registry entries for ME5 9 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for ME5 9 (Chatham) is £360,000, from 77 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £387,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,970 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like ME5 9 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 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 ME5 9 homes really sell for
The ME5 9 median stands at £360,000 for 2026, built from 77 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £387,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in ME5 9
Per square metre, ME5 9 homes have averaged around £4,260 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 9 trades 26% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical ME5 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 77 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 207 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 156 |
| 2023 | £357,500 | £392,805 | 144 |
| 2022 | £361,200 | £423,548 | 198 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 259 |
| 2020 | £322,000 | £417,802 | 173 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 180 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 190 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 231 |
| 2016 | £278,800 | £390,044 | 220 |
| 2015 | £234,500 | £331,349 | 220 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 215 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 201 |
| 2012 | £185,800 | £273,474 | 164 |
| 2011 | £178,000 | £268,712 | 145 |
| 2010 | £188,000 | £294,832 | 139 |
| 2009 | £170,200 | £273,598 | 150 |
| 2008 | £195,500 | £320,466 | 142 |
| 2007 | £202,000 | £342,648 | 295 |
| 2006 | £183,500 | £318,533 | 300 |
| 2005 | £181,000 | £322,107 | 195 |
| 2004 | £161,000 | £292,407 | 304 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 283 |
| 2002 | £132,200 | £248,733 | 312 |
| 2001 | £108,000 | £207,624 | 285 |
| 2000 | £93,000 | £182,513 | 243 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 269 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 291 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 307 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 265 |
| 1995 | £69,200 | £150,430 | 210 |
In cash terms the typical ME5 9 home went from £69,200 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 139%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the ME5 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 2003 (+24.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in ME5 9
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 77 ME5 9 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 277 sales a year before the financial crisis and 156 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.
Rents around ME5 9
The local authority for ME5 9 is Medway, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £360,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Reading the ME5 9 market
Against the ME5 district median, ME5 9 sits 18% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on ME5 9 (Walderslade)
Is ME5 9 (Walderslade) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME5 9 (Walderslade)?
Are property prices falling in ME5 9 (Walderslade)?
Will ME5 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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" 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 ME5 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: ME prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME5 0 | £295,000 | 57 |
| ME5 7 | £281,500 | 60 |
| ME5 8 | £310,000 | 96 |
Zoom out to the full ME5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in ME5 9? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME5 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME5 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME5 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working ME5 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim ME5 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME5 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual ME5 9 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.