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Saltwood market report CT21 4, Hythe
The CT21 4 (Saltwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,964 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CT21 4 (Hythe) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 17 registered 2026 sales put the CT21 4 (Hythe) median at £385,000, down 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £428,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,320 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,964 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CT21 4 is a single group of streets within CT21 (Hythe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CT21 4 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 CT21 4 prices, from the sold record
Across 17 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CT21 4 home went for £385,000. The mean is £428,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CT21 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CT21 4 costs about £4,320 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, CT21 4 runs 35% above it.
The price of a typical CT21 4 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £398,800 | £408,337 | 116 |
| 2024 | £346,200 | £368,082 | 80 |
| 2023 | £348,000 | £382,367 | 111 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 87 |
| 2021 | £421,000 | £533,040 | 116 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 103 |
| 2019 | £313,000 | £410,268 | 131 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 128 |
| 2017 | £347,000 | £473,273 | 99 |
| 2016 | £360,000 | £503,644 | 103 |
| 2015 | £324,500 | £458,519 | 84 |
| 2014 | £315,000 | £446,883 | 69 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 80 |
| 2012 | £265,000 | £390,047 | 73 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 64 |
| 2010 | £279,000 | £437,544 | 62 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 85 |
| 2008 | £241,000 | £395,050 | 52 |
| 2007 | £290,000 | £491,921 | 84 |
| 2006 | £241,800 | £419,734 | 104 |
| 2005 | £248,000 | £441,340 | 85 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 99 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 91 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 114 |
| 2001 | £148,500 | £285,484 | 100 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 118 |
| 1999 | £122,000 | £243,140 | 127 |
| 1998 | £93,000 | £187,727 | 103 |
| 1997 | £93,200 | £191,134 | 94 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 91 |
| 1995 | £82,500 | £179,342 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical CT21 4 home went from £82,500 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CT21 4 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 1999 (+31.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−26.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CT21 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.5% | −5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in CT21 4. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 82 sales a year recently, against 99 a year before 2008. 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.
Reading the CT21 4 market
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CT21 4 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. Within CT21, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around CT21 4
For renting purposes CT21 4 sits in Folkestone and Hythe. The ONS average private rent there is £1,161 a month (May 2026). 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 £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,161 a month (£13,932 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
What people ask about CT21 4 (Saltwood)
Are property prices falling in CT21 4 (Saltwood)?
Is CT21 4 (Saltwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT21 4 (Saltwood)?
Will CT21 4 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in CT21 today
Turning to what is actually available: 60 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT21 district, not just CT21 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CT21 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%) | — |
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
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 CT21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CT21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT21 5 | £342,500 | 34 |
| CT21 6 | £325,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full CT21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CT21 4? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT21 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT21 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT21 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every CT21 4 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.