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Alkham market report CT15, Dover
The CT15 (Alkham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,248 registered sales in CT15 (Dover) 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 middle 2026 sale in CT15 (Dover) came in at £347,500, out of 62 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £408,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,248 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CT15 is the postcode district covering Alkham, Lydden, Eythorne in Dover. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CT15 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.
What a home in CT15 sells for
62 sales were registered in CT15 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £347,500. The mean works out at £408,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in CT15
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CT15 costs about £3,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CT15 runs 22% above it.
The price of a typical CT15 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £347,500 | £347,500 | 62 |
| 2025 | £346,200 | £354,479 | 168 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 141 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 157 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 191 |
| 2021 | £335,000 | £424,153 | 275 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 131 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 189 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 189 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 217 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 244 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 210 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 227 |
| 2013 | £207,500 | £298,572 | 158 |
| 2012 | £207,200 | £304,973 | 166 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 144 |
| 2010 | £216,500 | £339,528 | 150 |
| 2009 | £174,500 | £280,510 | 124 |
| 2008 | £211,000 | £345,874 | 117 |
| 2007 | £209,500 | £355,370 | 265 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 254 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 178 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 235 |
| 2003 | £157,200 | £289,601 | 240 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 304 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 274 |
| 2000 | £99,000 | £194,288 | 203 |
| 1999 | £82,800 | £165,016 | 263 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 175 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 229 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 189 |
| 1995 | £64,500 | £140,213 | 179 |
In cash terms the typical CT15 home went from £64,500 in 1995 to £347,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 148%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CT15 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.4% | −2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £475,000 against £182,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CT15
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 | £475,000 | 29 | 2,716 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 20 | 2,094 |
| Terraced | £262,500 | 8 | 1,009 |
| Flats | £182,000 | 5 | 418 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 141 CT15 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 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 144 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the CT15 market
Only 141 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CT15 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. CT15 sits 3 of 21 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around CT15
CT15 falls under Dover, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,012 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £722 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,649 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dover
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £347,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,012 a month (£12,144 a year) works out at a 3.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
CT15 (Alkham): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CT15 (Alkham)?
Are property prices falling in CT15 (Alkham)?
Is CT15 (Alkham) a good place to buy a house?
Are CT15 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
Bedroom by bedroom: CT prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CT area. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CT15 ranks 7 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.
Five-year change in the median, CT area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CT15, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT15 4 | £266,200 | 16 |
| CT15 5 | £400,000 | 9 |
| CT15 6 | £337,500 | 14 |
| CT15 7 | £362,500 | 23 |
How CT15 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Thinking of selling in CT15? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT15, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT15 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT15 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CT15.
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The live map plots every individual CT15 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.