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Stour Provost market report SP8, Gillingham
The standing SP8 (Stour Provost) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 10,970 HM Land Registry entries for SP8 (Gillingham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SP8 (Gillingham) came in at £278,000, out of 106 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £306,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 10,970 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SP8 is a postcode district covering Gillingham, Stour Provost, East Stour in Gillingham. 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 SP8 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 SP8
Take the 106 registered 2026 sales in SP8 and the middle price, the median, is £278,000. The mean lands at £306,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SP8
The last five years of sales put SP8 at roughly £3,350 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SP8 runs 2% below it.
The price of a typical SP8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £278,000 | £278,000 | 106 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 337 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 258 |
| 2023 | £286,000 | £314,244 | 247 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 360 |
| 2021 | £268,200 | £339,576 | 376 |
| 2020 | £248,800 | £322,823 | 222 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 237 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 271 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 343 |
| 2016 | £212,500 | £297,290 | 296 |
| 2015 | £199,000 | £281,187 | 313 |
| 2014 | £184,000 | £261,036 | 349 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 274 |
| 2012 | £169,000 | £248,747 | 212 |
| 2011 | £172,000 | £259,654 | 216 |
| 2010 | £186,000 | £291,696 | 247 |
| 2009 | £171,500 | £275,688 | 252 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 197 |
| 2007 | £189,000 | £320,597 | 473 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 562 |
| 2005 | £165,500 | £294,523 | 429 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 509 |
| 2003 | £151,500 | £279,100 | 530 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 583 |
| 2001 | £108,000 | £207,624 | 470 |
| 2000 | £86,800 | £170,345 | 319 |
| 1999 | £74,200 | £147,877 | 421 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 350 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 471 |
| 1996 | £56,800 | £119,789 | 401 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 339 |
In cash terms the typical SP8 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £278,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SP8 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 2001 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SP8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £372,500 against £140,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SP8
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 | £372,500 | 44 | 4,435 |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | 31 | 2,751 |
| Terraced | £228,500 | 26 | 2,758 |
| Flats | £140,000 | 5 | 1,026 |
Sales activity in SP8
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 239 SP8 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 484 sales a year before the financial crisis and 262 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 SP8 is
By median price SP8 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
The rental side of SP8
The local authority for SP8 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £721 a month here against £1,661 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £278,000 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
SP8 (Stour Provost): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SP8 (Stour Provost)?
Are property prices falling in SP8 (Stour Provost)?
Is SP8 (Stour Provost) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to SP8 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in SP8 now
Everything above is what homes in SP8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 19 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 56% above the SP8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Wren Place, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8
- Nexus Apartments, Gillingham, Gillingham
- Milton On Stour, Milton On Stour, Gillingham
"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 SP8 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SP 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 | — | £345,000 | £450,000 (+30%) | £668,750 (+49%) | £982,500 (+47%) |
| Semi-detached | £245,000 | £295,000 (+20%) | £344,997 (+17%) | £450,500 (+31%) | £625,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £226,000 | £260,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+25%) | — |
| Flat | £145,000 | £190,000 (+31%) | £330,000 (+74%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SP8 ranks 8 of 11 in the SP 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.
SP area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SP8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SP8 4 | £258,000 | 91 |
| SP8 5 | £392,000 | 15 |
How SP8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SP5 | £473,500 | +5% |
| SP3 | £467,500 | +10% |
| SP6 | £382,500 | -2% |
| SP11 | £360,000 | +20% |
| SP4 | £332,500 | +11% |
| SP7 | £320,000 | +2% |
| SP1 | £312,500 | +1% |
| SP2 | £310,000 | +16% |
| SP9 | £310,000 | +42% |
| SP10 | £286,000 | +6% |
| SP8 (this report) | £278,000 | +4% |
Selling in SP8? 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 SP8'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.
Estate agents working SP8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SP8.
Keep digging
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See every individual SP8 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.