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Saltwood market report CT21, Hythe
The CT21 (Saltwood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 11,888 registered sales in CT21 (Hythe) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing 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: 96 registered 2026 sales put the CT21 (Hythe) median at £344,500, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £370,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 11,888 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district CT21 covering Hythe, Saltwood, Lympne sits in Hythe. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CT21 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
The 2026 median for CT21 is £344,500, taken from 96 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £370,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CT21
The last five years of sales put CT21 at roughly £4,160 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CT21 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CT21 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £344,500 | £344,500 | 96 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 359 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 281 |
| 2023 | £341,000 | £374,676 | 316 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 331 |
| 2021 | £341,200 | £432,003 | 482 |
| 2020 | £314,000 | £407,421 | 323 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 364 |
| 2018 | £295,000 | £393,241 | 408 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 406 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 460 |
| 2015 | £250,800 | £354,380 | 400 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 389 |
| 2013 | £218,800 | £314,831 | 370 |
| 2012 | £222,000 | £326,756 | 301 |
| 2011 | £203,200 | £306,754 | 268 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 300 |
| 2009 | £207,800 | £334,040 | 276 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 282 |
| 2007 | £217,800 | £369,449 | 434 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 510 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 407 |
| 2004 | £188,000 | £341,445 | 430 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 461 |
| 2002 | £125,500 | £236,127 | 434 |
| 2001 | £109,700 | £210,893 | 396 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 415 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 475 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 381 |
| 1997 | £67,000 | £137,403 | 403 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 367 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 363 |
In cash terms the typical CT21 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £344,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 29% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CT21 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 (+31.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−17.8%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £573,500 against £171,200 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, CT21
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 | £573,500 | 22 | 3,654 |
| Semi-detached | £349,000 | 25 | 3,148 |
| Terraced | £320,000 | 31 | 2,889 |
| Flats | £171,200 | 18 | 2,197 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.3% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
CT21 recorded 247 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 436 sales a year before the financial crisis and 277 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 homes rent for around CT21
For renting purposes CT21 sits in Folkestone and Hythe. The ONS average private rent there is £1,161 a month (May 2026). 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 £344,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
Reading the CT21 market
Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, CT21 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on CT21 (Saltwood)
How much did a house sell for in CT21 (Saltwood)?
Are property prices falling in CT21 (Saltwood)?
Is CT21 (Saltwood) a good place to buy a house?
Are CT21 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CT21 right now
Everything above is what homes in CT21 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 60 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the CT21 median sold price.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 CT21 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CT prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CT area, straight 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CT21 ranks 11 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.
Winners and losers across the CT area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CT21, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT21 4 | £385,000 | 17 |
| CT21 5 | £342,500 | 34 |
| CT21 6 | £325,000 | 45 |
How CT21 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 (this report) | £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 | £269,000 | +3% |
| CT11 | £260,000 | -2% |
| CT16 | £245,000 | -6% |
| CT17 | £222,500 | +9% |
Selling in CT21? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT21, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT21's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT21 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT21.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT21 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CT21 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.