A typical house in Higham sells for about £386,000, and at that price you get a semi, not a statement. Most of what sells is semi-detached. A detached house goes for over half a million. Terraces are rare enough to count on one hand. It's a three-bed village priced like one, with nothing thrown in for the view.
In the Land Registry's twelve months to mid-May 2026, 25 homes sold at a median of about £386,000. Semis dominate: 18 of those sales, at a median of about £383,000. The four detached homes sold for a median of about £511,000, and the three terraces for about £350,000. With a sample this small, the headline figure moves if two big houses sell in the same month, so take the type medians as a rough guide, not a price list. That gap between semi and detached is about the cost of the garage the semi-owner keeps promising to build.
Higham's local area barely moved on the official house-price index, up 0.9% over the twelve months to May 2026. That change is small enough to disappear in the gap between asking price and sold price. Flats in the same index fell 3% over the same period, which matters little in a village that has almost none. Sellers hoping the market will bail out an ambitious asking price should read that 0.9% twice.
Council tax is mostly band D, and only 10% of homes fall in bands A or B. A band D bill runs about £2,408 a year, the figure to compare against wherever you live now. The cheap bands are thin on the ground because the cheap houses are too.
Renting is priced at the borough level, not the village. The typical private rent across the Gravesham area was about £1,320 a month in April 2026, an average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a median of listings. By size, that's about £900 for a one-bed, £1,190 for a two-bed, £1,450 for a three-bed and £2,070 for four or more. Studio and room rents aren't published. Higham's rentals are mostly houses, so the three-bed figure is the one to watch, and even that is a borough average dragged about by Gravesend.
Modelled household income here averaged about £67,000 before tax in the financial year to March 2023. That's a healthy figure, and it needs to be, because a £386,000 semi remains a stretch on one salary and manageable on two. The village works out best for couples who both work, or for those who already sold a house somewhere pricier.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which covers 84% of them, the median price was about £4,630 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure measured about 88 square metres. That's a family house, not a mansion, sold at a price that assumes you will fill every room.
The 2021 Census bedroom count backs that up. About 43% of homes have three bedrooms and 33% have four or more. Two-beds make up 21% and one-beds only 3%. A buyer after a one-bed starter home has a better chance of spotting a heron on the Thames than one on the market here.
Houses in Higham cost about what the Kent commuter belt charges for a solid family semi, no more and no less. It's middling: not a bargain and not a rip-off, and the market is too flat for anyone to pretend otherwise.