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Rainham market report ME8 8, Gillingham
The ME8 8 (Rainham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,229 registered sales in ME8 8 (Gillingham) 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: the 2026 median for ME8 8 (Gillingham) is £315,000, from 63 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £314,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,000 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,229 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
ME8 8 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 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 buyers actually paid in ME8 8
The ME8 8 median stands at £315,000 for 2026, built from 63 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £314,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
ME8 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of ME8 8 home has cost about £4,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, ME8 8 sits 11% above the national market.
ME8 8's median sold price, 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 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £342,500 | £350,690 | 201 |
| 2024 | £317,000 | £337,036 | 195 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 161 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 187 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 222 |
| 2020 | £271,000 | £351,628 | 126 |
| 2019 | £281,000 | £368,324 | 194 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 202 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 211 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 157 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 153 |
| 2014 | £173,000 | £245,431 | 167 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 136 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 124 |
| 2011 | £155,000 | £233,990 | 115 |
| 2010 | £161,500 | £253,274 | 110 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 111 |
| 2008 | £167,500 | £274,568 | 110 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 259 |
| 2006 | £155,000 | £269,060 | 270 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 234 |
| 2004 | £142,700 | £259,171 | 202 |
| 2003 | £129,000 | £237,649 | 193 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 277 |
| 2001 | £86,500 | £166,292 | 257 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 267 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 279 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 279 |
| 1997 | £57,400 | £117,716 | 287 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 255 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 225 |
In cash terms the typical ME8 8 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 173%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME8 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 2002 (+27.2% 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.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.0% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 63 ME8 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 245 sales a year before the financial crisis and 161 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.
The rental side of ME8 8
ME8 8 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.
Against the £315,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,238 a month (£14,856 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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 ME8 8 (Rainham)
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The questions people bring to ME8 8 (Rainham)
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reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £315,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do ME8 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
ME8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 4 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME8 district, not just ME8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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 ME8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME8 0 | £457,500 | 42 |
| ME8 6 | £310,000 | 43 |
| ME8 7 | £342,500 | 66 |
| 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 in ME8 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME8 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 ME8 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with ME8 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME8 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.