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Hawkinge market report CT18 8, Folkestone
The CT18 8 (Hawkinge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,014 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT18 8 (Folkestone) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for CT18 8 (Folkestone) is £350,000, from 15 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £369,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,400 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,014 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CT18 8 is a single group of streets within CT18 (Folkestone), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CT18 8 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 CT18 8 prices, from the sold record
Across 15 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CT18 8 home went for £350,000. The mean is £369,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CT18 8
Per square metre, CT18 8 homes have averaged around £4,400 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CT18 8 23% above the national figure.
A typical CT18 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £428,500 | £438,747 | 58 |
| 2024 | £418,800 | £445,270 | 46 |
| 2023 | £344,000 | £377,972 | 51 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 47 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 90 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 46 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 43 |
| 2018 | £387,500 | £516,545 | 48 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 52 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 65 |
| 2015 | £276,000 | £389,988 | 62 |
| 2014 | £243,800 | £345,873 | 82 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 57 |
| 2012 | £232,500 | £342,211 | 52 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 51 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 40 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 41 |
| 2008 | £203,000 | £332,760 | 40 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 77 |
| 2006 | £206,800 | £358,978 | 94 |
| 2005 | £213,000 | £379,054 | 80 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 79 |
| 2003 | £175,500 | £323,314 | 75 |
| 2002 | £155,800 | £293,136 | 82 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 87 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 78 |
| 1999 | £92,000 | £183,351 | 83 |
| 1998 | £91,000 | £183,690 | 79 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 69 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 82 |
| 1995 | £61,000 | £132,605 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical CT18 8 home went from £61,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 164%: 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 34% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT18 8 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 2018 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−23.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CT18 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −18.3% | −20.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 CT18 8
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 15 CT18 8 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 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.
What kind of market CT18 8 is
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CT18 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What tenants pay around CT18 8
The local authority for CT18 8 is Folkestone and Hythe, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,161 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £793 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,699, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Folkestone and Hythe
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,161 a month (£13,932 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
CT18 8 (Hawkinge): the questions that come up
Is CT18 8 (Hawkinge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT18 8 (Hawkinge)?
Are property prices falling in CT18 8 (Hawkinge)?
Will CT18 8 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in CT18 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 23 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT18 district, not just CT18 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Merlin Court, Folkestone, Kent, CT18
- Cauldham Lane, Folkestone, Kent, CT18
- Coach Road, Acrise, Folkestone, Kent,...
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CT18 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
Real sold prices by size across the CT area, straight 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
The spread across the CT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CT area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CT18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CT18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT18 7 | £345,000 | 77 |
Zoom out to the full CT18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CT18 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CT18 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working CT18 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CT18 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT18 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CT18 8 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.
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.