Houses in Northfleet cost about £325,000 in the middle of the market, and that money mostly buys a terrace. Terraces go for around £300,000. Semis are a little under £375,000. Flats come in below £200,000. For somewhere this close to a high-speed line into London, the prices still read like a town that has not been told.
The Land Registry recorded 200 sales in Northfleet in the year to May 2026, at a median of £325,000. Terraces made up more than half of the trade, 103 sales at a median of about £300,000. The 69 semi-detached houses sold for about £373,000 and the 20 flats for about £194,000. Detached houses barely show up: eight sales at a median of £480,000, too few to say much about the market for them.
The house price index for the area moved 0.9% over the twelve months to May 2026, a change you would struggle to notice in one round of haggling. The index puts the average price at about £341,000, up about 9% over five years. Flats did worse: the flat index fell 3% over the same twelve months, so anyone selling a flat this year has had the index against them.
Band C is the most common council tax band here, and 32% of homes are in bands A or B. Gravesham Borough Council charges about £2,408 a year for band D, the bill most people can hold up against their own. Since most homes here are in a lower band, most households pay less than that.
Gravesham as a whole has a typical private rent of about £1,320 a month as of April 2026. That is a mean taken from the Office for National Statistics index, so it describes the whole borough and is no median of local listings. By size, the borough averages about £900 for one bedroom, £1,190 for two, £1,450 for three and £2,070 for four or more. Rents across the borough rose about 7% in a year, and with Ebbsfleet International just down the road, the landlords have an obvious explanation to hand.
The Office for National Statistics models average household income across Northfleet at about £57,500 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Against that, a terrace at around £300,000 is reachable for a couple with two incomes and hard going on one. A flat under £200,000 is the realistic way in for single buyers, and given that flat prices fell over the past year, it is also a buyer's market of sorts.
Across the 95% of last year's sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, the median works out at about £4,140 per square metre, with a typical home of about 78 square metres. Keep that 78 in mind when a set of particulars counts the box room as a third bedroom.
The 2021 Census found 45% of Northfleet homes have three bedrooms, 30% have two, 12% have one and 13% have four or more. The three-bed is what this market is built around. Want a fourth bedroom and you are shopping in the 13%, alongside every other family that has run out of space.
For a commuter town with a high-speed station on its doorstep, house prices are one of the better reasons to live in Northfleet. A two-income household can buy a three-bed terrace here without the maths turning ugly.