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Saltwood market report CT21 6, Hythe
The standing CT21 6 (Saltwood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,296 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT21 6 (Hythe) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CT21 6 (Hythe) came in at £325,000, out of 45 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £333,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,296 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CT21 6 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 6 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 6
45 sales were registered in CT21 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £325,000. The mean works out at £333,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CT21 6 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CT21 6 have sold for about £4,040 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CT21 6 runs 14% above it.
A typical CT21 6 home, priced year by year (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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 101 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 86 |
| 2023 | £314,000 | £345,009 | 97 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 88 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 153 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 101 |
| 2019 | £267,500 | £350,628 | 100 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 150 |
| 2017 | £273,800 | £373,436 | 158 |
| 2016 | £252,500 | £353,250 | 183 |
| 2015 | £224,000 | £316,512 | 146 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 159 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 127 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 109 |
| 2011 | £187,500 | £283,053 | 95 |
| 2010 | £183,500 | £287,775 | 104 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 101 |
| 2008 | £184,000 | £301,615 | 92 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 170 |
| 2006 | £179,000 | £310,721 | 187 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 162 |
| 2004 | £162,700 | £295,495 | 158 |
| 2003 | £145,100 | £267,309 | 178 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 175 |
| 2001 | £92,200 | £177,250 | 142 |
| 2000 | £79,500 | £156,019 | 144 |
| 1999 | £65,500 | £130,538 | 181 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 140 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 151 |
| 1996 | £54,200 | £114,305 | 155 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical CT21 6 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% 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 CT21 6 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 2003 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−7.6%). 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 years (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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, 45 sales completed in CT21 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 165 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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.
Reading the CT21 6 market
This is a thin market: 45 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 rental side of CT21 6
CT21 6 falls under Folkestone and Hythe, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,161 a month is £13,932 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
CT21 6 (Saltwood): the questions that come up
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Where do CT21 6 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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
The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT21 district, not just CT21 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CT
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 | — | £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.
Five-year change in the median, CT area districts
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 5 | £342,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full CT21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT21 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CT21 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT21 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT21 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT21 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CT21 6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CT21 6 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.