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Walderslade market report ME5, Chatham
The ME5 (Walderslade) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 29,217 HM Land Registry entries for ME5 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for ME5 (Chatham) is £305,000, from 290 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £327,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 29,217 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME5 is a postcode district covering Walderslade, Blue Bell Hill, Lordswood 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 ME5 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.
The going rate for a home in ME5
Take the 290 registered 2026 sales in ME5 and the middle price, the median, is £305,000. The mean lands at £327,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
ME5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, ME5 homes have averaged around £3,940 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME5 7% above the country at large.
The price of a typical ME5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 290 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 729 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 645 |
| 2023 | £298,800 | £328,308 | 574 |
| 2022 | £299,500 | £351,198 | 796 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 998 |
| 2020 | £252,000 | £326,975 | 648 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 746 |
| 2018 | £242,500 | £323,257 | 788 |
| 2017 | £235,000 | £320,516 | 859 |
| 2016 | £225,000 | £314,777 | 916 |
| 2015 | £191,000 | £269,883 | 889 |
| 2014 | £168,000 | £238,337 | 811 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 741 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 646 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 579 |
| 2010 | £150,200 | £235,552 | 514 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 543 |
| 2008 | £153,000 | £250,799 | 563 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 1,351 |
| 2006 | £143,500 | £249,098 | 1,347 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 938 |
| 2004 | £133,000 | £241,554 | 1,405 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 1,315 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 1,450 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 1,427 |
| 2000 | £69,500 | £136,394 | 1,356 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 1,307 |
| 1998 | £58,000 | £117,077 | 1,173 |
| 1997 | £53,600 | £109,923 | 1,162 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 916 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 795 |
In cash terms the typical ME5 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 186%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME5 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 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.5%). 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, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £436,500 against £132,500 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, ME5
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 | £436,500 | 56 | 4,705 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 115 | 9,885 |
| Terraced | £275,000 | 106 | 12,472 |
| Flats | £132,500 | 13 | 2,155 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 588 ME5 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 1,324 sales a year before the financial crisis and 607 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 homes rent for around ME5
For renting purposes ME5 sits in Medway. The ONS average private rent there is £1,238 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £900 a month here against £1,835 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Medway
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £305,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Asked and answered: ME5 (Walderslade)
How much did a house sell for in ME5 (Walderslade)?
Are property prices falling in ME5 (Walderslade)?
Is ME5 (Walderslade) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to ME5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
What is for sale in ME5 right now
Everything above is what homes in ME5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 4 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% below the ME5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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
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 | — | £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
ME5 ranks 4 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.
ME area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside ME5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME5 0 | £295,000 | 57 |
| ME5 7 | £281,500 | 60 |
| ME5 8 | £310,000 | 96 |
| ME5 9 | £360,000 | 77 |
How ME5 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 (this report) | £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 | £249,500 | +4% |
Selling a home in ME5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual ME5 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.
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.