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Newington market report ME9, Sittingbourne
The ME9 (Newington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 11,084 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in ME9 (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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical ME9 (Sittingbourne) home changed hands for £350,000 in 2026 (median of 151 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £390,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 11,084 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
ME9 is a postcode district covering Newington, Teynham, Iwade and Rural in Sittingbourne. 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 ME9 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 ME9
The ME9 median stands at £350,000 for 2026, built from 151 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £390,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in ME9
A square metre of ME9 home has cost about £3,900 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, ME9 sits 23% above the national market.
The price of a typical ME9 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 151 |
| 2025 | £358,800 | £367,380 | 378 |
| 2024 | £355,000 | £377,438 | 337 |
| 2023 | £350,000 | £384,565 | 219 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 328 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 468 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 333 |
| 2019 | £303,800 | £398,209 | 322 |
| 2018 | £312,500 | £416,568 | 282 |
| 2017 | £292,000 | £398,259 | 330 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 417 |
| 2015 | £239,000 | £337,707 | 387 |
| 2014 | £218,200 | £309,555 | 398 |
| 2013 | £222,500 | £320,155 | 305 |
| 2012 | £197,200 | £290,254 | 276 |
| 2011 | £191,000 | £288,337 | 219 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 245 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 193 |
| 2008 | £192,000 | £314,729 | 208 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 410 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 496 |
| 2005 | £195,500 | £347,911 | 430 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 540 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 498 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 521 |
| 2001 | £128,000 | £246,073 | 463 |
| 2000 | £118,500 | £232,556 | 376 |
| 1999 | £89,500 | £178,369 | 334 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 356 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 334 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 313 |
| 1995 | £67,000 | £145,648 | 217 |
In cash terms the typical ME9 home went from £67,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 140%, 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 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the ME9 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 2000 (+32.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £517,500 against £155,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, ME9
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 | £517,500 | 47 | 4,125 |
| Semi-detached | £350,500 | 51 | 3,292 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 38 | 3,021 |
| Flats | £155,000 | 15 | 642 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
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.
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.
ME9 recorded 274 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 467 sales a year before the financial crisis and 283 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 tenants pay around ME9
The local authority for ME9 is Swale, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,091 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £763 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,820, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Swale
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,091 a month is £13,092 a year, which against the £350,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What kind of market ME9 is
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, ME9 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on ME9 (Newington)
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Are ME9 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in ME9 right now
Everything above is what homes in ME9 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 100% above the ME9 median sold price.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every ME9 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
When homes in ME9 change hands
Take the 1,730 ME9 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 11.9% of the total, July trails with 6.2%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 125 | 7.2% |
| February | 138 | 8.0% |
| March | 206 | 11.9% |
| April | 124 | 7.2% |
| May | 129 | 7.5% |
| June | 172 | 9.9% |
| July | 107 | 6.2% |
| August | 149 | 8.6% |
| September | 162 | 9.4% |
| October | 140 | 8.1% |
| November | 136 | 7.9% |
| December | 142 | 8.2% |
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
ME9 ranks 14 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 ME9, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
How ME9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the ME area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| ME18 | £466,200 | -4% |
| ME19 | £440,000 | +1% |
| ME17 | £380,000 | +1% |
| ME20 | £375,000 | +15% |
| ME3 | £370,000 | +6% |
| ME9 (this report) | £350,000 | +3% |
| ME16 | £345,000 | +5% |
| ME15 | £335,000 | +3% |
| ME8 | £330,000 | +8% |
| ME14 | £330,000 | -1% |
| ME2 | £325,000 | +14% |
| ME13 | £325,000 | -8% |
| ME5 | £307,500 | +12% |
| ME1 | £305,000 | +8% |
| ME6 | £292,000 | +2% |
| ME10 | £290,000 | +13% |
| ME12 | £285,000 | +6% |
| ME7 | £270,000 | +10% |
| ME11 | £250,000 | +19% |
| ME4 | £249,000 | +4% |
Before you sell in ME9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in ME9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from ME9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded ME9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every ME9 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.
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.