The typical Queenborough house sells for about £260,000. Semis and terraces go for much the same money. Three bedrooms is the default. Flats hardly come up. The houses are cheap, and the flat you were hoping for mostly doesn't exist.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to mid-May 2026 show a median sale price of about £260,000 across 33 sales. Semi-detached houses sold for a median of around £267,500 across 14 sales, and terraces for around £253,000 across 16. The two sit close together. Whoever is selling the semi will call it a premium. It is closer to a rounding error. With 33 sales in a year, one unusual house can move the median, so treat these figures as a guide rather than a price list.
The official house price index for the area was up 3.7% in the twelve months to May 2026, with an average price of about £294,000. It is up about 12% over five years. Flats went the other way, down about 1% over the year. That fall is small, and nobody should read it as a crash. But in a town where almost nothing is a flat, the one property type heading down is the one there is least of to buy.
Council tax sits mostly in band B, with about 69% of homes in bands A or B. A band D bill across Swale is about £2,406 a year, and band A is about £1,604. Most Queenborough homes fall between the two. The council will not be sending many band F letters here.
The typical private rent across the Swale area was about £1,090 a month as of April 2026. That is a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not a Queenborough-only figure and not a median of adverts. By size, the Swale averages are about £763 for a one-bed, £1,008 for a two-bed, £1,217 for a three-bed and £1,821 for four bedrooms or more. There is no reliable figure for studios or rooms, so any number quoted for them is a guess. In a town mostly made of three-bed houses, the three-bed figure is the one to use.
The Office for National Statistics modelled median household income at about £44,000 before tax for the financial year to March 2023. That figure is a few years old, and prices have moved since. A household earning that much is not locked out of a £260,000 house, but a deposit and a cautious lender still stand between them and the keys. It is within reach on paper. What it feels like depends on how much of the deposit is already saved.
For the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 91% of them, the median price was around £3,140 per square metre. The median home behind that figure was about 79 square metres. Size, not age, is what the money buys here: a family-sized post-war house with a garden rather than a period flat with a view.
The 2021 Census found about 62% of households in three-bedroom homes, 24% in two-bedroom homes, 8% in one-bedroom homes and 7% with four bedrooms or more. The three-bed house is the town's standard product. A buyer after one bedroom or five is shopping in the wrong town.
On price, Queenborough is one of its own real strengths. A proper family house here still costs less than a mortgage calculator usually expects, and the flood survey is the only bit of the process likely to spoil that.