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Rainham market report ME8 6, Gillingham
The ME8 6 (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: 4,054 sales registered with HM Land Registry in ME8 6 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical ME8 6 (Gillingham) home changed hands for £305,200 in 2026 (median of 60 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier), with the mean at £320,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,710 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,054 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME8 6 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 6 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 6
In the ME8 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £305,200, from 60 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £320,000, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in ME8 6
Per square metre, ME8 6 homes have averaged around £3,710 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 ME8 6 7% above the country at large.
A typical ME8 6 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 | £305,200 | £305,200 | 60 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 115 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 112 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 123 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 108 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 157 |
| 2020 | £243,800 | £316,336 | 112 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 116 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 151 |
| 2017 | £235,500 | £321,198 | 138 |
| 2016 | £226,500 | £316,876 | 122 |
| 2015 | £190,000 | £268,470 | 118 |
| 2014 | £169,500 | £240,465 | 132 |
| 2013 | £147,500 | £212,238 | 108 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 89 |
| 2011 | £137,000 | £206,817 | 90 |
| 2010 | £140,000 | £219,556 | 80 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 93 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 90 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 168 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 176 |
| 2005 | £136,000 | £242,025 | 130 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 155 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 171 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 135 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 199 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 153 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 149 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 149 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 129 |
| 1996 | £46,200 | £97,434 | 142 |
| 1995 | £46,800 | £101,736 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical ME8 6 home went from £46,800 in 1995 to £305,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 200%, 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 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME8 6 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 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in ME8 6
Sales per year, counted
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.
ME8 6 recorded 60 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 104 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around ME8 6
For renting purposes ME8 6 sits in Medway. The ONS average private rent there is £1,238 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £305,200 median sold price, £1,238 a month is £14,856 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
Reading the ME8 6 market
Within ME8, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on ME8 6 (Rainham)
Are property prices falling in ME8 6 (Rainham)?
Is ME8 6 (Rainham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME8 6 (Rainham)?
Where do ME8 6 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
Moving up a bedroom in ME: the cost
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 | £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%) |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in ME8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are ME8's other sectors, each with its own report:
Zoom out to the full ME8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in ME8 6: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME8 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME8 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME8 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME8 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual ME8 6 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.