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Sandgate market report CT20, Folkestone
The CT20 (Sandgate) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 16,073 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT20 (Folkestone) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 158 registered 2026 sales put the CT20 (Folkestone) median at £269,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £300,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 16,073 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CT20 is the postcode district covering Folkestone (south), Sandgate in Folkestone. 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 CT20 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 buyers actually paid in CT20
The 2026 median for CT20 is £269,000, taken from 158 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £300,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CT20
The last five years of sales put CT20 at roughly £3,350 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CT20 6% below the national figure.
The price of a typical CT20 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £269,000 | £269,000 | 158 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 459 |
| 2024 | £266,200 | £283,025 | 430 |
| 2023 | £262,700 | £288,643 | 496 |
| 2022 | £261,000 | £306,052 | 543 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 665 |
| 2020 | £226,000 | £293,240 | 351 |
| 2019 | £197,000 | £258,220 | 447 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 545 |
| 2017 | £204,000 | £278,236 | 603 |
| 2016 | £168,000 | £235,034 | 562 |
| 2015 | £169,500 | £239,504 | 546 |
| 2014 | £158,500 | £224,860 | 524 |
| 2013 | £153,000 | £220,152 | 354 |
| 2012 | £135,500 | £199,439 | 312 |
| 2011 | £150,000 | £226,442 | 332 |
| 2010 | £155,500 | £243,864 | 344 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 273 |
| 2008 | £147,500 | £241,784 | 321 |
| 2007 | £147,500 | £250,201 | 649 |
| 2006 | £140,000 | £243,022 | 773 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 530 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 681 |
| 2003 | £96,000 | £176,855 | 711 |
| 2002 | £78,000 | £146,756 | 792 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 623 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 569 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 587 |
| 1998 | £48,800 | £98,506 | 534 |
| 1997 | £47,000 | £96,388 | 536 |
| 1996 | £42,900 | £90,474 | 404 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 419 |
In cash terms the typical CT20 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £269,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 209%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CT20 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 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−9.7%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £535,000 against £190,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CT20
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 | £535,000 | 16 | 1,662 |
| Semi-detached | £363,800 | 30 | 2,215 |
| Terraced | £276,500 | 26 | 3,485 |
| Flats | £190,000 | 86 | 8,711 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.6% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 CT20
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 332 sales completed in CT20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 666 sales a year before the financial crisis and 417 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 CT20 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, CT20 ranks 18 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around CT20
CT20 falls under Folkestone and Hythe, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £269,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,161 a month (£13,932 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
Common questions on CT20 (Sandgate)
How much did a house sell for in CT20 (Sandgate)?
Are property prices falling in CT20 (Sandgate)?
Is CT20 (Sandgate) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CT20 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
CT20's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CT20 sold for. The live side of the market holds 94 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the CT20 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Collingwood Rise, Folkestone, Folkestone
- Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Folkestone
- Flat D, 60 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Folkestone
"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 CT20 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in CT
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CT20 ranks 8 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CT20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CT20 1 | £225,000 | 30 |
| CT20 2 | £241,000 | 67 |
| CT20 3 | £336,000 | 61 |
How CT20 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 | £288,800 | +1% |
| CT19 | £280,000 | +12% |
| CT9 | £277,000 | +5% |
| CT8 | £276,500 | +8% |
| CT20 (this report) | £269,000 | +3% |
| CT11 | £260,000 | -2% |
| CT16 | £245,000 | -6% |
| CT17 | £222,500 | +9% |
Before you sell in CT20: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CT20'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT20.
Dig further
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See every individual CT20 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.