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Seasalter market report CT5, Whitstable
The CT5 (Seasalter) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 21,630 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT5 (Whitstable) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CT5 (Whitstable) home changed hands for £398,000 in 2026 (median of 213 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £440,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,810 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,630 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CT5 is a postcode district covering Whitstable, Seasalter, Tankerton in Whitstable. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CT5 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.
The going rate for a home in CT5
The CT5 median stands at £398,000 for 2026, built from 213 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £440,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CT5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CT5 costs about £4,810 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, CT5 runs 40% above it.
A typical CT5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £398,000 | £398,000 | 213 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 535 |
| 2024 | £407,500 | £433,256 | 511 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 409 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 509 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 841 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 579 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 555 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 558 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 582 |
| 2016 | £313,500 | £438,590 | 643 |
| 2015 | £277,500 | £392,108 | 781 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 875 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 751 |
| 2012 | £221,000 | £325,284 | 677 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 648 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 562 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 592 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 444 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 1,067 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 999 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 729 |
| 2004 | £183,000 | £332,364 | 1,003 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 817 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 977 |
| 2001 | £114,000 | £219,159 | 783 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 696 |
| 1999 | £78,000 | £155,450 | 679 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 640 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 748 |
| 1996 | £57,800 | £121,898 | 667 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 560 |
In cash terms the typical CT5 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £398,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 227%: 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 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT5 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 2000 (+21.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.3%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £500,000 against £224,200 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, CT5
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 | £500,000 | 79 | 7,745 |
| Semi-detached | £373,800 | 68 | 6,541 |
| Terraced | £365,000 | 40 | 4,487 |
| Flats | £224,200 | 26 | 2,857 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.8% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CT5
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 421 sales completed in CT5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 884 sales a year before the financial crisis and 435 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.
The shape of the CT5 market
Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, CT5 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around CT5
CT5 falls under Canterbury, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,276 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £872 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,900, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £398,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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 CT5 (Seasalter)
Are property prices falling in CT5 (Seasalter)?
Is CT5 (Seasalter) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT5 (Seasalter)?
Will CT5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in CT5 now
Everything above is what homes in CT5 sold for. The live side of the market holds 11 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 26% above the CT5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 →
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.
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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CT5 ranks 9 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 CT5, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT5 1 | £380,000 | 47 |
| CT5 2 | £410,000 | 54 |
| CT5 3 | £425,000 | 45 |
| CT5 4 | £375,000 | 67 |
How CT5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CT area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CT4 | £408,000 | -2% |
| CT5 (this report) | £398,000 | +2% |
| CT15 | £347,500 | +4% |
| CT18 | £347,500 | +1% |
| CT21 | £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 a home in CT5? 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'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.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every CT5 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.