The typical Faversham home sells for about £322,500. Terraces make up most of the sales. Detached houses reach about half a million. A flat comes in under £200,000. It is a town where most buyers can find something that fits, and still spend weeks deciding which compromise they can live with.
In the year to May 2026, the Land Registry recorded 287 sales in Faversham at a median of £322,500. Terraces led the market with 122 sales at a typical £305,000. Semi-detached houses changed hands 78 times at about £366,000. Detached houses sold 40 times at around £502,500, and flats sold 47 times at about £181,500. The biggest price jump is from terrace to semi, not from semi to detached. Buyers pay most of that premium for a side return and a neighbour on one side only.
The house price index for the area put the average price at about £294,000 in May 2026, up 3.7% on a year earlier. That is steady growth, not a boom. Over five years the same index rose about 12%. Flats went the other way, dipping 0.9% over the twelve months, which is a rounding error more than a warning. Still, anyone selling a flat has watched houses pull ahead while theirs stood still.
Band C is the most common council-tax band, and 37% of homes sit in bands A or B. A band D home in Faversham pays about £2,406 a year. That is the number to compare against your current bill, and it is also the one the estate agent will not bring up at the viewing.
Renting costs about £1,090 a month for a typical private let across the Swale area as of April 2026. That is a borough-wide average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a figure for the town, and it is a mean rather than the midpoint of what is advertised. By size, one-bed homes averaged about £763, two-beds about £1,008, three-beds about £1,217 and four-beds or larger about £1,821. Rents across the borough rose 1.9% over the year. Nobody publishes studio or room rents for the area, so no figure is given here.
Gross household income, before tax, averaged about £57,000 across Faversham in the financial year to March 2023. That is a modelled figure for that year, not a current wage. Measured against a typical sale price above £300,000, the town is a stretch for a single earner and reachable for a couple on two decent incomes. Most buyers here are the couple. The single earners end up renting in the same streets and doing the sums every spring.
Among the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, 89% of the total, the median price was about £3,900 per square metre, for a typical home of about 80 square metres. That is not a lot of house. It is the price of a town where the square metres come with a street worth looking at, and some buyers are paying for that more than for the rooms.
At the 2021 Census, 43% of Faversham homes had three bedrooms, 31% had two, 16% had four or more and 10% had one. With three-beds the most common size by a clear margin, the family house is the standard product here. That also means everyone searching for one is competing with everyone else searching for one.
For what you get, Faversham's prices are one of its strengths: a real town with a station and a market for less than the setting would suggest. It is not cheap, but compared with what the place gives you, it is good value.