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Newington market report ME9 8, Sittingbourne
The standing ME9 8 (Newington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,108 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME9 8 (Sittingbourne) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in ME9 8 (Sittingbourne) came in at £350,000, out of 47 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £403,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,108 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
ME9 8 is one sector of ME9 (Sittingbourne): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where ME9 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.
Today's ME9 8 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for ME9 8 is £350,000, taken from 47 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £403,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in ME9 8
A square metre of ME9 8 home has cost about £3,930 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts ME9 8 23% above the country at large.
ME9 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 155 |
| 2024 | £367,500 | £390,728 | 145 |
| 2023 | £345,000 | £379,071 | 91 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 113 |
| 2021 | £336,000 | £425,419 | 152 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 97 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 96 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 107 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 129 |
| 2016 | £266,500 | £372,836 | 183 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 182 |
| 2014 | £221,000 | £313,527 | 183 |
| 2013 | £227,000 | £326,630 | 139 |
| 2012 | £197,500 | £290,695 | 111 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 90 |
| 2010 | £209,000 | £327,766 | 71 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 62 |
| 2008 | £209,500 | £343,415 | 84 |
| 2007 | £218,800 | £371,146 | 168 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 230 |
| 2005 | £212,500 | £378,164 | 204 |
| 2004 | £196,000 | £355,974 | 255 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 236 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 192 |
| 2001 | £152,500 | £293,173 | 138 |
| 2000 | £129,500 | £254,144 | 100 |
| 1999 | £122,000 | £243,140 | 81 |
| 1998 | £93,500 | £188,736 | 118 |
| 1997 | £79,800 | £163,654 | 60 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 47 |
| 1995 | £77,800 | £169,125 | 42 |
In cash terms the typical ME9 8 home went from £77,800 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 107%: 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 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME9 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 1999 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What ME9 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 ME9 8
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 47 ME9 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 190 sales a year before the financial crisis and 110 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 kind of market ME9 8 is
This is a thin market: 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What homes rent for around ME9 8
ME9 8 falls under Swale, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £763 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,820 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,091 a month (£13,092 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
ME9 8 (Newington): the questions that come up
Is ME9 8 (Newington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in ME9 8 (Newington)?
Are property prices falling in ME9 8 (Newington)?
Where do ME9 8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in ME9 today
Turning to what is actually available: 23 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole ME9 district, not just ME9 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every ME9 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in ME9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of ME9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| ME9 0 | £410,000 | 16 |
| ME9 7 | £390,000 | 42 |
| ME9 9 | £252,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full ME9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how ME9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in ME9 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at ME9 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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim ME9 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to ME9 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every ME9 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.
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.