31 Chichester Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 8BZ

31 Chichester Close is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Rainham, Gillingham, Gillingham (ME8 8BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2025) returns a B (score 83), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in October 2014 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Poor.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in November 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 105 m² the property is well over the postcode median (75 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £401,000 sits 315.5% above the 1998 sale of £96,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£85/sq ft) was about 46.6% below the postcode norm.