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Canterbury market report CT
The standing CT (Canterbury) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 286,601 registered sales in the CT postcode area (Canterbury) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the CT postcode area (Canterbury) came in at £300,000, out of 3,210 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £337,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,730 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 286,601 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The CT postcode area centred on Canterbury covers 21 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where CT sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in CT
Take the 3,210 registered 2026 sales in CT and the middle price, the median, is £300,000. The mean lands at £337,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CT
The last five years of sales put CT at roughly £3,730 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CT 5% above the national figure.
A typical CT home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 3,210 |
| 2025 | £312,500 | £319,973 | 7,876 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 7,156 |
| 2023 | £317,500 | £348,855 | 6,470 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 8,689 |
| 2021 | £302,000 | £382,371 | 11,218 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 7,171 |
| 2019 | £262,000 | £343,419 | 7,907 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 8,360 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 9,397 |
| 2016 | £228,000 | £318,974 | 9,640 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 9,817 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 9,820 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 8,158 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 7,158 |
| 2011 | £173,200 | £261,465 | 6,764 |
| 2010 | £178,000 | £279,150 | 6,709 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 6,423 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 6,409 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 13,356 |
| 2006 | £166,500 | £289,023 | 13,217 |
| 2005 | £158,000 | £281,176 | 9,757 |
| 2004 | £152,000 | £276,062 | 11,647 |
| 2003 | £132,000 | £243,176 | 12,105 |
| 2002 | £108,500 | £204,142 | 13,257 |
| 2001 | £87,000 | £167,253 | 10,967 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 9,261 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 10,267 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 8,818 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 10,115 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 8,326 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 7,156 |
In cash terms the typical CT home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 171%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CT median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.0% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £178,200 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CT
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £450,000 | 781 | 68,698 |
| Semi-detached | £318,200 | 924 | 78,752 |
| Terraced | £270,000 | 941 | 84,755 |
| Flats | £178,200 | 564 | 54,396 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
CT recorded 5,832 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 11,696 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6,680 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CT
The local authority for CT is Dover, the local authority covering most of the CT area (parts fall under Thanet and Canterbury, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,012 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £722 a month here against £1,649 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Dover
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,012 a month is £12,144 a year, which against the £300,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
CT (Canterbury): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CT (Canterbury)?
Is CT (Canterbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT (Canterbury)?
Are CT prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in CT now
Everything above is what homes in CT sold for. The live side of the market holds 278 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the CT median sold price.
Set against 5,832 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 278 homes on the market here are roughly 2 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Collingwood Rise, Folkestone, Folkestone
- 31 Lancaster Road, Canterbury, Kent
- Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone, Folkestone
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CT home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
When homes in CT change hands
March is when CT changes hands most (11.1% of the 41,409 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.8%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,826 | 6.8% |
| February | 3,240 | 7.8% |
| March | 4,594 | 11.1% |
| April | 2,949 | 7.1% |
| May | 3,007 | 7.3% |
| June | 4,179 | 10.1% |
| July | 3,050 | 7.4% |
| August | 3,455 | 8.3% |
| September | 4,034 | 9.7% |
| October | 3,377 | 8.2% |
| November | 3,483 | 8.4% |
| December | 3,215 | 7.8% |
The price of an extra bedroom in CT
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CT area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £325,000 | £369,975 (+14%) | £435,000 (+18%) | £549,995 (+26%) | £745,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £292,595 (+6%) | £325,000 (+11%) | £382,500 (+18%) | £480,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £231,000 | £250,000 (+8%) | £273,000 (+9%) | £330,000 (+21%) | £405,000 (+23%) |
| Flat | £143,000 | £210,000 (+47%) | £266,250 (+27%) | £331,500 (+25%) | £401,400 (+21%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, CT area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable CT district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CT4 Canterbury (Nackington Road, Stuppington) | £409,000 | -2% | 76 |
| CT5 Whitstable, Seasalter | £400,000 | +3% | 269 |
| CT18 Hawkinge, Lyminge | £350,000 | +1% | 109 |
| CT15 Alkham, Lydden | £347,500 | +4% | 80 |
| CT6 Herne Bay, Herne | £340,000 | +2% | 276 |
| CT21 Hythe, Saltwood | £340,000 | +0% | 121 |
| CT13 Sandwich, Eastry | £336,200 | +5% | 64 |
| CT10 Broadstairs, St Peter's | £335,000 | -9% | 163 |
| CT7 Birchington-on-Sea, St Nicholas-at-Wade | £320,000 | +3% | 89 |
| CT2 Canterbury (Hales Place, London Road | £315,000 | +3% | 149 |
| CT12 Northwood, Minster-in-Thanet | £298,800 | +9% | 110 |
| CT3 Wingham, Hersden | £295,000 | +0% | 130 |
| CT14 Deal, Walmer | £292,500 | -6% | 245 |
| CT1 Canterbury (City centre, St Martins | £285,500 | +0% | 164 |
| CT9 Margate, Cliftonville | £275,000 | +4% | 281 |
| CT19 Folkestone (north), Cheriton | £275,000 | +10% | 147 |
| CT8 Westgate-on-Sea | £271,500 | +6% | 58 |
| CT20 Folkestone (south), Sandgate | £270,000 | +4% | 186 |
| CT11 Ramsgate, Pegwell | £256,500 | -3% | 218 |
| CT16 Whitfield, Temple Ewell | £252,500 | -3% | 134 |
| CT17 Dover (roughly west of A256), Tower Hamlets | £220,000 | +8% | 141 |
Selling in CT? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CT sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.