About £345,000 for a typical house. Terraces come in under that. Semis go over it. Hardly any sales are flats, because hardly any homes are. Middle-of-the-road money for a village at the end of the road.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026 put the typical sale price in Cliffe at about £345,000, across 17 sales. The split by type is where it gets useful. Terraced houses sold for around £280,000 over 7 sales, and semi-detached houses for around £374,000 over 8. That gap is the whole negotiation in one line: a terrace buyer is paying for the village, and a semi buyer is paying for the village plus a side gate. With 17 sales in a year, every figure here rests on a small handful of transactions, and one unusual house can move the typical price further than a year of market sentiment.
The direction of travel is close to flat. The house price index for the area moved by -0.4% over the twelve months to May 2026, which is a rounding error dressed as a headline. Flats did worse, down 3.8% over the same period, which matters little in a village where the flat is the rarest species on the street. Nobody should read a fraction of a percent as a crash or a bargain season. It is a market standing still with its hands in its pockets.
Council tax band C is the most common band in Cliffe, and about 24% of homes sit in bands A or B. The band D bill in Medway is about £2,329 a year, the figure to hold against your current bill. Anyone arriving from a place where most homes sit in the bottom bands will notice that Cliffe's stock was valued as comfortable, and is billed accordingly.
Renting runs off an area figure, not a village one. The typical private rent across the Medway area is about £1,240 a month as of April 2026, up about 4% on the year. It is an average from the Office for National Statistics rent index, not a median of advertised listings. By size, that is about £900 a month for one bedroom, £1,140 for two, £1,340 for three and £1,830 for four or more. Studio and room rents are not published at this level, so there is no honest figure to give for either. The letting agent who quotes one anyway has made it up.
On income, the modelled gross household income for the area, before tax, was about £59,700 in the financial year to March 2023. Set against a typical sale price of about £345,000, Cliffe is within reach for a two-earner household with a decent deposit and a stretch for a single buyer. It is not a village for first-time buyers on one salary, and the terraces are where those who try tend to end up.
Price per square metre is the fairer comparison. Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which was 94% of them, the typical price came out at about £3,470 a square metre, on a typical floor area of about 86 square metres. That is a family-sized house at a family-sized price, not a compact cottage priced as a lifestyle choice.
The 2021 census puts the bedroom mix firmly in three-bed territory. About 49% of households have three bedrooms, 25% have four or more, 19% have two and 6% have one. Search for a one-bed here and the results page does most of the talking. Search for a three-bed and you are shopping in the village's main aisle.
Houses in Cliffe cost what a settled Medway village costs: middling, neither a steal nor a stretch for a household on two incomes. What changes the sum is which side of the terrace-to-semi gap you land on.