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Whitfield market report CT16, Dover
The CT16 (Whitfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,877 HM Land Registry entries for CT16 (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.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 8 October 2026.
In short: 134 registered 2026 sales put the CT16 (Dover) median at £252,500, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £259,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,877 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CT16 is the postcode district covering Whitfield, Temple Ewell 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 CT16 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 CT16 sells for
134 sales were registered in CT16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £252,500. The mean works out at £259,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in CT16
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CT16 costs about £3,260 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, CT16 runs 11% below it.
CT16's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £252,500 | £252,500 | 134 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 385 |
| 2024 | £281,500 | £299,292 | 347 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 284 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 412 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 499 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 341 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 324 |
| 2018 | £198,200 | £264,204 | 316 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 400 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 385 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 418 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 362 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 285 |
| 2012 | £129,400 | £190,461 | 252 |
| 2011 | £126,200 | £190,513 | 244 |
| 2010 | £129,800 | £203,560 | 240 |
| 2009 | £138,000 | £221,836 | 227 |
| 2008 | £149,500 | £245,062 | 242 |
| 2007 | £147,000 | £249,353 | 478 |
| 2006 | £137,000 | £237,814 | 582 |
| 2005 | £123,000 | £218,890 | 381 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 352 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 414 |
| 2002 | £81,200 | £152,777 | 400 |
| 2001 | £69,200 | £133,033 | 334 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 316 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 352 |
| 1998 | £51,000 | £102,947 | 288 |
| 1997 | £49,200 | £100,899 | 310 |
| 1996 | £46,200 | £97,434 | 318 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 255 |
In cash terms the typical CT16 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £252,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT16 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 2004 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.8%). 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 year (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +0.8% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £372,500 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CT16
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 | £372,500 | 23 | 2,006 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 37 | 2,586 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 55 | 4,260 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 19 | 2,025 |
Sales activity in CT16
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 257 CT16 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 407 sales a year before the financial crisis and 312 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 kind of market CT16 is
Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, CT16 ranks 20 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around CT16
The local authority for CT16 is Dover, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £252,500 median sold price, £1,012 a month is £12,144 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
CT16 (Whitfield): the questions that come up
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What happens to CT16 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
On the market in CT16 today
Everything above is what homes in CT16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 10 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 33% below the CT16 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (257 in CT16), the 10 homes listed here amount to about 2 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every CT16 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.
Month by month: when CT16 sells
Take the 1,927 CT16 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: June completions lead with 10.6% of the total, January trails with 6.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 124 | 6.4% |
| February | 145 | 7.5% |
| March | 193 | 10.0% |
| April | 160 | 8.3% |
| May | 151 | 7.8% |
| June | 204 | 10.6% |
| July | 146 | 7.6% |
| August | 149 | 7.7% |
| September | 180 | 9.3% |
| October | 173 | 9.0% |
| November | 138 | 7.2% |
| December | 164 | 8.5% |
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. 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%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CT16 ranks 18 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.
Winners and losers across the CT area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CT16, 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.
How CT16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CT area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CT4 | £409,000 | -2% |
| CT5 | £400,000 | +3% |
| CT18 | £350,000 | +1% |
| CT15 | £347,500 | +4% |
| CT6 | £340,000 | +2% |
| CT21 | £340,000 | +0% |
| CT13 | £336,200 | +5% |
| CT10 | £335,000 | -9% |
| CT7 | £320,000 | +3% |
| CT2 | £315,000 | +3% |
| CT12 | £298,800 | +9% |
| CT3 | £295,000 | +0% |
| CT14 | £292,500 | -6% |
| CT1 | £285,500 | +0% |
| CT9 | £275,000 | +4% |
| CT19 | £275,000 | +10% |
| CT8 | £271,500 | +6% |
| CT20 | £270,000 | +4% |
| CT11 | £256,500 | -3% |
| CT16 (this report) | £252,500 | -3% |
| CT17 | £220,000 | +8% |
Selling in CT16? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT16, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT16 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT16 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.