Chatham Property Market: House Prices, Sold Data & Development Finance, Q3 2026 Edition

Chatham: Medway waterfront regeneration with the Historic Dockyard area attracting conversion schemes.

The Chatham property market recorded 4,119 residential sales in the 12 months to 31 May 2026, with a median sale price of £300,000. This places Chatham £45k below the Kent county median of £345,000, and £15k above the approximate UK median of £285,000.

Prices in Chatham have been broadly stable, a year-on-year change of 0%. Within Kent, Chatham ranks 10th by price out of 12 principal towns, and 1st by transaction volume.

On a quarterly view, Chatham median prices moved from £295,000 in Q3 2024 to £300,000 in Q4 2025, a change of +1.7% over 5 quarters. The most recent quarter is excluded because HM Land Registry registrations for it are still incomplete.

Medway Council, the local planning authority covering Chatham, approved 95 residential planning applications and refused 38 in the last 12 months, with 71 still awaiting a decision. That is an approval rate of 71%.

Those applications propose around 2,358 homes, an estimated £651.3m of development value at local sale prices. Treat the unit total as an upper bound, since an outline permission and its reserved-matters application both count.

Property prices in Chatham vary significantly by type. The table below compares Chatham prices with Kent county averages and UK national figures.

Detached homes in Chatham command £480,000, while flat properties are most accessible at £175,000. The £305k spread between the most and least expensive types indicates a diverse market with opportunities across the development spectrum.

HM Land Registry has so far registered 63 new-build sales in Chatham for the past 12 months, 1.5% of registered transactions. New-build sales are typically registered 6 to 18 months after completion, so this understates current delivery and is not a completions figure.

On those registered sales, new builds in Chatham sold at a premium of 49.0% to existing stock.

Across the wider Kent market, 753 new-build sales have registered so far. See our Kent property market report for the full county picture.

The table below shows the most recently registered residential sales in Chatham, evidence of achieved prices for buyers, sellers and developers:

These transactions are sourced from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and represent completed, registered sales. The range from £281,000 to £500,000 illustrates the breadth of the Chatham market.

For developers considering Chatham, the local market data translates directly into finance structuring. With a median value of £300,000 and detached homes at £480,000, lenders can assess scheme viability with confidence.

A typical development finance facility for a scheme in Chatham with a GDV of £480,000 would attract senior debt of approximately £312,000 at 65% LTGDV. Mezzanine finance can stretch total borrowing to 85-90% of costs, while bridging loans enable rapid site acquisitions completing in as little as 5 working days.

While prices have remained flat year-on-year, experienced developers can still generate strong returns in Chatham by targeting well-located sites with clear demand drivers.

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To put Chatham's market in context, the table below compares it with similarly-priced towns across Kent:

For the full Kent town-by-town breakdown, see our comprehensive Kent property market report.