Houses in Hoo St Werburgh go for about £350,000, and that money buys a semi rather than a story. Semis set the price. Flats are rare and cheap. Detached houses cost more and turn up less. The price has barely moved in a year, which on this peninsula counts as news.
In the Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026, 99 homes sold at a median of £350,000. Semi-detached houses made up the bulk, 52 sales at a median of about £374,000. Terraces went for £315,000 across 29 sales, and detached houses for about £431,000 across 10. Flats managed about £186,000, but on 8 sales that figure is more anecdote than market. The spread tells you what the village is for: families trading up one wall at a time, from terrace to semi to detached, without ever leaving the road they started on.
The published house price index for the area moved 0.4% down in the twelve months to May 2026. That is a rounding error dressed as a headline, and nobody should call it a slump. Flats did worse, down 3.8% over the same year, which will matter far more to the handful of flat owners than to anyone buying a semi. Estate agents will call the whole thing "stable". For once the word is accurate.
Council tax lands mostly in Band C, with 34% of homes in the two cheapest bands, A and B. A Band D bill runs to about £2,330 a year, the figure to hold against whatever you pay now. The valuation list has no Band H homes at all, so nobody here is paying for a mansion, and nobody here owns one.
Renters work from a Medway-wide number. The typical private rent across the Medway area was about £1,240 a month as of April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics index rather than a median of listings. By size it runs to about £900 for a one-bed, £1,140 for a two-bed, £1,340 for a three-bed and £1,830 for four bedrooms or more. Those figures include Chatham and Gillingham flats, so the three-bed semi on a village close is unlikely to be the property dragging the average down.
Local households had a gross income, before tax, of about £55,100 in the financial year to March 2023, as modelled by the Office for National Statistics. Against a £350,000 median, that is a proper mortgage, not a stretch into fantasy. Two earners on typical local pay can get into a terrace here. The detached house needs either a promotion or a parent with a pension.
The typical sale works out at about £4,050 per square metre, across the 99% of sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area. The median home behind that figure has about 83 square metres of floor space. That is a sensible three-bed, not a sprawling one, and the price per metre treats it fairly.
The bedroom mix explains why buyers searching here keep seeing the same listing. The 2021 Census counts 46% of homes with three bedrooms, 28% with two, 18% with four or more and 7% with one. If a buyer wants a one-bed starter flat, the peninsula will send them back towards Strood. If they want three bedrooms, they will have plenty of choice among homes that look a lot like each other.
Hoo St Werburgh is not cheap, but the price is fair for what it buys: a solid family house in a village that has stopped rising and has not started falling. For anyone after a three-bed semi, value is one of the better reasons to buy here.