The Gravesham property market in numbers: what the official figures show

If you are buying or selling in this borough, you will have seen a great many house price numbers, most of them from portals with something to sell you. So here are the official ones, from the government's own index, along with something more useful than the numbers themselves: an honest account of what they do and do not tell you about your house.

Everything below comes from the UK House Price Index, published by the Office for National Statistics and HM Land Registry. We have not adjusted anything or added a forecast.

The headline figure

The average house price in Gravesham was £341,000 in May 2026, which is the most recent figure available at the time of writing and is marked provisional. That was up 0.9% on May 2025, when it stood at £339,000.

Provisional matters. These figures are based on sales as they are registered, and registration takes time, so recent months get revised as more transactions come in.

The breakdown, which is the more interesting part

A single borough-wide average flattens an enormous spread. Here is the same month by property type:

• Detached: £610,000
• Semi-detached: £395,000
• Terraced: £311,000
• Flats and maisonettes: £172,000

A detached house in Gravesham costs more than three and a half times what a flat costs. Both are in the same borough, often within a mile of each other, and both are inside that £341,000 average.

The bit almost nobody mentions

Over the year to May 2026, semi-detached homes rose 2.2%, while flats and maisonettes fell 3.0%.

So the market did two opposite things at once. If you own a semi, your year looked different from your neighbour's in a converted flat, and any headline describing "the Gravesham market" as doing one thing was averaging those two into something neither of you experienced.

That is worth carrying with you when you read a market report. A borough-wide figure is a summary of a mixture, not a description of a house.

What an average cannot tell you

The average is built from every sale registered in the borough, which means it is shaped by which houses happened to change hands. A quarter with more flats coming to market pulls it one way; a run of larger sales pulls it the other. Neither movement tells you anything about the value of your own home.

It also says nothing about the things that actually decide what a specific house fetches here:

• How far it is from a station, which in this borough is the single strongest influence on price.
• Whether it is in central Gravesend, Northfleet, or out in the villages, which are effectively different markets.
• The condition of an older property, which in a borough with a lot of Victorian stock can move a price a long way.

Look it up yourself

We would rather you had the source than took our word for it. The figures for Gravesham, updated monthly, are published here:

Housing prices in Gravesham, ONS and HM Land Registry (accessed 13 August 2026)

What we do not do

You will notice there is no prediction in this article. We are not going to tell you where prices are heading, because we do not know, and neither does anybody who tells you they do. Reporting what has already been registered is honest. Forecasting it is guesswork with a confident voice.

What we can do is help you work out what a particular property means for you, which is a different question from what the borough average did last year. If you would like to talk that through, the first conversation is free and without obligation, and we are in Gravesend.

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