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Seasalter market report CT5 1, Whitstable
The CT5 1 (Seasalter) 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: 5,819 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT5 1 (Whitstable) 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: a typical CT5 1 (Whitstable) home changed hands for £380,000 in 2026 (median of 47 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £407,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,840 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,819 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CT5 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CT5 (Whitstable). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CT5 1 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 a home in CT5 1 sells for
The CT5 1 median stands at £380,000 for 2026, built from 47 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £407,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CT5 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CT5 1 sales average about £4,840 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CT5 1 33% above the national figure.
CT5 1's median sold price, 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 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 137 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 109 |
| 2023 | £411,200 | £451,808 | 106 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 121 |
| 2021 | £386,200 | £488,979 | 228 |
| 2020 | £356,500 | £462,566 | 158 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 125 |
| 2018 | £335,000 | £446,561 | 131 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 136 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 168 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 219 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 236 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 197 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 183 |
| 2011 | £226,800 | £342,381 | 200 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 168 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 179 |
| 2008 | £201,500 | £330,301 | 122 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 325 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 260 |
| 2005 | £168,200 | £299,328 | 204 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 264 |
| 2003 | £144,400 | £266,020 | 231 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 247 |
| 2001 | £91,000 | £174,943 | 193 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 192 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 190 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 175 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 216 |
| 1996 | £48,600 | £102,495 | 208 |
| 1995 | £49,700 | £108,040 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical CT5 1 home went from £49,700 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 252%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CT5 1 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 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CT5 1
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
CT5 1 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around CT5 1
The local authority for CT5 1 is Canterbury, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,276 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £872 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,900 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Canterbury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,276 a month is £15,312 a year, which against the £380,000 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.
How CT5 1 trades
This is a thin market: 47 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.
What people ask about CT5 1 (Seasalter)
Are property prices falling in CT5 1 (Seasalter)?
Is CT5 1 (Seasalter) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT5 1 (Seasalter)?
Are CT5 1 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 22% 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 CT5 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 11 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT5 district, not just CT5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Barley Drive, Chestfield, Whitstable,...
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 CT5 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
Real sold prices by size across the CT area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CT area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CT5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CT5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT5 2 | £410,000 | 54 |
| CT5 3 | £425,000 | 45 |
| CT5 4 | £375,000 | 67 |
Zoom out to the full CT5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CT5 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CT5 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CT5 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT5 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CT5 1 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.