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Whitfield market report CT16 3, Dover
The standing CT16 3 (Whitfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,772 HM Land Registry entries for CT16 3 (Dover), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 42 registered 2026 sales put the CT16 3 (Dover) median at £300,000, down 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £313,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,772 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CT16 3 is a single group of streets within CT16 (Dover), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CT16 3 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 CT16 3
42 sales were registered in CT16 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £300,000. The mean works out at £313,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CT16 3
A square metre of CT16 3 home has cost about £3,760 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CT16 3 trades 5% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CT16 3 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 209 |
| 2024 | £313,200 | £332,996 | 180 |
| 2023 | £314,200 | £345,229 | 138 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 199 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 226 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 169 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 118 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 113 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 159 |
| 2016 | £247,500 | £346,255 | 146 |
| 2015 | £241,500 | £341,240 | 142 |
| 2014 | £198,500 | £281,607 | 125 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 96 |
| 2012 | £175,500 | £258,314 | 92 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 80 |
| 2010 | £184,000 | £288,559 | 59 |
| 2009 | £167,500 | £269,258 | 70 |
| 2008 | £198,200 | £324,892 | 66 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 108 |
| 2006 | £185,800 | £322,525 | 136 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 94 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 97 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 106 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 106 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 113 |
| 2000 | £85,600 | £167,990 | 92 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 107 |
| 1998 | £68,500 | £138,272 | 91 |
| 1997 | £65,200 | £133,712 | 98 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 117 |
| 1995 | £60,500 | £131,518 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical CT16 3 home went from £60,500 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CT16 3 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 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.7% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.3% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in CT16 3
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 42 CT16 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 154 sales a year over the last five years against 107 before the financial crisis. 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.
Rents around CT16 3
The local authority for CT16 3 is Dover, 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.
How CT16 3 trades
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CT16 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the CT16 district median, CT16 3 sits 22% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CT16 3 (Whitfield)
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What happens to CT16 3 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
CT16's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 11 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT16 district, not just CT16 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every CT16 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.
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. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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.
Other sectors in CT16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CT16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT16 1 | £177,500 | 18 |
| CT16 2 | £220,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full CT16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CT16 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT16 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT16 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT16 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CT16 3.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT16 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CT16 3 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.