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Saltwood market report CT21 5, Hythe
The CT21 5 (Saltwood) 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: 4,628 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT21 5 (Hythe) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 34 registered 2026 sales put the CT21 5 (Hythe) median at £342,500, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £391,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,628 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CT21 5 is one sector of CT21 (Hythe): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CT21 5 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 CT21 5
Take the 34 registered 2026 sales in CT21 5 and the middle price, the median, is £342,500. The mean lands at £391,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CT21 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of CT21 5 home has cost about £4,140 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CT21 5 20% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CT21 5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £342,500 | £342,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £347,500 | £355,810 | 142 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 115 |
| 2023 | £384,500 | £422,472 | 108 |
| 2022 | £427,600 | £501,410 | 156 |
| 2021 | £380,000 | £481,129 | 213 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 119 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 133 |
| 2018 | £302,500 | £403,238 | 130 |
| 2017 | £277,500 | £378,482 | 149 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 174 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 170 |
| 2014 | £237,500 | £336,935 | 161 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 163 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 119 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 109 |
| 2010 | £237,500 | £372,461 | 134 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 90 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 138 |
| 2007 | £235,200 | £398,965 | 180 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 219 |
| 2005 | £202,500 | £360,368 | 160 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 173 |
| 2003 | £165,500 | £304,891 | 192 |
| 2002 | £136,500 | £256,824 | 145 |
| 2001 | £108,200 | £208,009 | 154 |
| 2000 | £102,500 | £201,156 | 153 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 167 |
| 1998 | £76,200 | £153,815 | 138 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 158 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 121 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical CT21 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £342,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 163%: 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 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT21 5 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 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−15.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.1% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in CT21 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
Reading the CT21 5 market
This is a thin market: 34 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
What homes rent for around CT21 5
The local authority for CT21 5 is Folkestone and Hythe, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,161 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £793 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,699 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Folkestone and Hythe
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,161 a month is £13,932 a year, which against the £342,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
Common questions on CT21 5 (Saltwood)
Is CT21 5 (Saltwood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT21 5 (Saltwood)?
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Will CT21 5 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CT21's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 60 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT21 district, not just CT21 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CT21 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.
What another bedroom costs in CT
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CT area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
CT area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CT21
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CT21, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT21 4 | £385,000 | 17 |
| 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 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT21 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT21 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT21 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT21 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CT21 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CT21 5 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.