A typical Gravesend house costs about £345,000, which is terrace money with a little to spare. Flats sell for under £200,000. A semi costs more than the typical sale, and a detached house costs a lot more. Prices have barely moved in a year. Gravesend is priced like a town with a fast train to St Pancras, because it has one.
The Land Registry recorded 448 sales in Gravesend in the year to May 2026, at a median of £345,000. By type, flats went for about £180,000 across 67 sales, terraces about £320,000 across 182, semis about £400,000 across 147 and detached houses about £508,000 across 52. Terraces were the biggest group by a distance. The detached market is the thin end, and with only 52 sales one large house on Windmill Hill can shift the number on its own.
The House Price Index has Gravesend's average up about 1% in the year to May 2026, to about £341,000. That is about as close to standing still as the index gets. Flats went the other way, with the index's flat price down about 3% over the same year. The average house held its value, and the flat buyer who paid up in 2025 is still waiting for the market to catch up with them.
Band C is the most common council tax band in Gravesend, and about 26% of homes sit in bands A or B. Gravesham's band D bill is about £2,408 a year, and band A about £1,605. Look up the band on the Valuation Office Agency's list along with the asking price, because the bill comes every year after the purchase is finished.
Across Gravesham, typical private rent was about £1,320 a month in April 2026, up about 7% on a year earlier. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics index covering the whole borough, so the villages and Northfleet are in it too. By size, the borough averages about £900 for a one-bed, about £1,190 for a two-bed, about £1,450 for a three-bed and about £2,070 for four or more. Sale prices barely moved over the year while rents went up about 7%, which is a better year to own a flat here than to be renting one.
Median household income across Gravesend's neighbourhoods was modelled by the Office for National Statistics at about £56,000 for the financial year to March 2023, gross, before tax and three years out of date. Against a £345,000 median sale, that makes a house a stretch on one ordinary income and within reach on two. A couple who both work in Gravesend can buy a terrace. The buyers who outbid them usually have one salary paid in London.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, which was about 84% of them, the median price was about £4,170 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 84 square metres. That figure leaves out the sales without a certificate, so the newest-to-market and least-updated homes are the ones most likely to be missing.
At the 2021 census about 45% of Gravesend households had three bedrooms, about 23% had two, about 18% had four or more and about 15% had one. The three-bed is the town's standard home, and the post-war semis and terraces built in large numbers are why. Four bedrooms is where the supply gets short and the detached prices start.
Gravesend is good value for the money, a bit better than average. A three-bed costs what a flat would cost further in, and the market has been calm for the whole of the past year.