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Rainham market report ME8 0, Gillingham
The ME8 0 (Rainham) 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: 4,279 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME8 0 (Gillingham) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical ME8 0 (Gillingham) home changed hands for £457,500 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £478,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,350 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,279 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME8 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside ME8 (Gillingham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where ME8 0 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 ME8 0
42 sales were registered in ME8 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £457,500. The mean works out at £478,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
ME8 0 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in ME8 0 costs about £4,350 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME8 0 sits 61% above the national market.
A typical ME8 0 home, priced year by year (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 | £457,500 | £457,500 | 42 |
| 2025 | £452,500 | £463,321 | 138 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 95 |
| 2023 | £404,000 | £443,897 | 100 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 89 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 186 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 109 |
| 2019 | £362,200 | £474,758 | 124 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 111 |
| 2017 | £346,500 | £472,591 | 134 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 129 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 146 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 132 |
| 2013 | £242,000 | £348,214 | 139 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 131 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 94 |
| 2010 | £242,500 | £380,302 | 112 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 79 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 89 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 183 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 180 |
| 2005 | £219,000 | £389,732 | 120 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 129 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 158 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 167 |
| 2001 | £142,000 | £272,988 | 187 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 163 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 179 |
| 1998 | £109,300 | £220,630 | 163 |
| 1997 | £87,800 | £180,060 | 189 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 168 |
| 1995 | £74,800 | £162,604 | 114 |
In cash terms the typical ME8 0 home went from £74,800 in 1995 to £457,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, 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 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME8 0 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 1998 (+24.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.4%). 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) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in ME8 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 161 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 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 ME8 0
ME8 0 falls under Medway, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £457,500 median sold price, £1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the ME8 0 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes ME8 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the ME8 district median, ME8 0 sits 39% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about ME8 0 (Rainham)
How much did a house sell for in ME8 0 (Rainham)?
Are property prices falling in ME8 0 (Rainham)?
Is ME8 0 (Rainham) a good place to buy a house?
Will ME8 0 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
On the market in ME8 today
The live side of the market holds 4 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME8 district, not just ME8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
50% 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 ME8 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.
What another bedroom costs in ME
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the ME area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME8 6 | £310,000 | 43 |
| ME8 7 | £342,500 | 66 |
| ME8 8 | £315,000 | 63 |
| ME8 9 | £328,000 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full ME8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in ME8 0? 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 ME8 0'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.
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Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME8 0 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME8 0 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.
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.