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St Martins market report CT1, Canterbury
The CT1 (St Martins) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 15,201 registered sales in CT1 (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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CT1 (Canterbury) sold for £288,800 in 2026, the median of 142 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £312,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 15,201 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district CT1 covering Canterbury (City centre, St Martins, Northgate and Sturry Road sits in Canterbury. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CT1 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.
Today's CT1 prices, from the sold record
Across 142 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CT1 home went for £288,800. The mean is £312,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CT1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CT1 sales average about £3,750 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CT1 runs 1% above it.
The price of a typical CT1 home, 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 | £288,800 | £288,800 | 142 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 384 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 393 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 394 |
| 2022 | £297,500 | £348,853 | 571 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 599 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 333 |
| 2019 | £266,200 | £348,924 | 402 |
| 2018 | £269,500 | £359,249 | 402 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 477 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 540 |
| 2015 | £223,100 | £315,240 | 479 |
| 2014 | £214,800 | £304,731 | 538 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 509 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 445 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 380 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 429 |
| 2009 | £163,200 | £262,345 | 438 |
| 2008 | £183,600 | £300,959 | 516 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 883 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 639 |
| 2005 | £170,800 | £303,955 | 486 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 564 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 600 |
| 2002 | £121,400 | £228,413 | 588 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 512 |
| 2000 | £81,500 | £159,944 | 406 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 445 |
| 1998 | £64,500 | £130,198 | 389 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 521 |
| 1996 | £56,700 | £119,578 | 424 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 373 |
In cash terms the typical CT1 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £288,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 137%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CT1 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £500,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CT1
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 | £500,000 | 22 | 1,759 |
| Semi-detached | £310,000 | 41 | 3,844 |
| Terraced | £277,200 | 50 | 5,041 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 29 | 4,557 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.1% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in CT1
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
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.
The register shows 287 CT1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 585 sales a year before the financial crisis and 377 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around CT1
CT1 falls under Canterbury, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,276 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £872 a month here against £1,900 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Canterbury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,276 a month is £15,312 a year, which against the £288,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
Common questions on CT1 (St Martins)
How much did a house sell for in CT1 (St Martins)?
Are property prices falling in CT1 (St Martins)?
Is CT1 (St Martins) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CT1 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 is for sale in CT1 right now
Everything above is what homes in CT1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the CT1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 CT1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in CT: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CT area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £350,000 | £465,000 (+33%) | £665,000 (+43%) | £930,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £275,000 | £300,000 (+9%) | £350,000 (+17%) | £460,000 (+31%) | £575,000 (+25%) |
| Terraced | £240,000 | £257,250 (+7%) | £300,000 (+17%) | £389,497 (+30%) | £520,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £220,000 (+47%) | £300,000 (+36%) | £390,000 (+30%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CT1 ranks 10 of 21 in the CT area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
CT area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CT1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT1 1 | £290,000 | 55 |
| CT1 2 | £262,500 | 22 |
| CT1 3 | £292,000 | 65 |
How CT1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CT area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CT4 | £408,000 | -2% |
| CT5 | £398,000 | +2% |
| CT15 | £347,500 | +4% |
| CT18 | £347,500 | +1% |
| CT21 | £344,500 | +1% |
| CT10 | £337,500 | -9% |
| CT6 | £335,000 | +0% |
| CT13 | £335,000 | +5% |
| CT7 | £310,000 | +0% |
| CT2 | £305,000 | +0% |
| CT3 | £295,000 | +0% |
| CT12 | £295,000 | +7% |
| CT14 | £295,000 | -5% |
| CT1 (this report) | £288,800 | +1% |
| CT19 | £280,000 | +12% |
| CT9 | £277,000 | +5% |
| CT8 | £276,500 | +8% |
| CT20 | £269,000 | +3% |
| CT11 | £260,000 | -2% |
| CT16 | £245,000 | -6% |
| CT17 | £222,500 | +9% |
Before you sell in CT1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CT1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.