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Herne market report CT6 5, Herne Bay
The CT6 5 (Herne) 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: 5,489 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT6 5 (Herne Bay) 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: 45 registered 2026 sales put the CT6 5 (Herne Bay) median at £240,000, down 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £277,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,489 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CT6 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CT6 (Herne Bay). 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 CT6 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.
The going rate for a home in CT6 5
In the CT6 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £240,000, from 45 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £277,800, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
CT6 5 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CT6 5 sales average about £3,490 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CT6 5 16% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CT6 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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £317,000 | £324,580 | 151 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 160 |
| 2023 | £276,200 | £303,476 | 154 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 225 |
| 2021 | £336,200 | £425,673 | 236 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 160 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 178 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 177 |
| 2017 | £248,000 | £338,247 | 171 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 174 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 175 |
| 2014 | £152,000 | £215,639 | 177 |
| 2013 | £159,000 | £228,785 | 124 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 105 |
| 2011 | £136,000 | £205,308 | 102 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 112 |
| 2009 | £142,500 | £229,070 | 112 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 99 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 273 |
| 2006 | £151,600 | £263,158 | 278 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 183 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 231 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 320 |
| 2002 | £92,500 | £174,038 | 275 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 228 |
| 2000 | £70,200 | £137,768 | 176 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 132 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 137 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 158 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 137 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical CT6 5 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 176%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 45% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT6 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 2003 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−24.3%). 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) | −24.3% | −26.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.5% | −10.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in CT6 5
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.
CT6 5 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 246 sales a year before the financial crisis and 147 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.
The rental side of CT6 5
The local authority for CT6 5 is Canterbury, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,276 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £872 a month here against £1,900 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Canterbury
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £240,000 median sold price, £1,276 a month is £15,312 a year, a gross yield of 6.4%: 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.
What kind of market CT6 5 is
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 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. Against the CT6 district median, CT6 5 sits 28% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about CT6 5 (Herne)
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Where do CT6 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% 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 CT6 now
Turning to what is actually available: 12 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT6 district, not just CT6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% 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.
- Osborne Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6
- Central Parade, Herne Bay, Kent
- Osborne Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6
"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 CT6 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CT prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CT area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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.
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 CT6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CT6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT6 6 | £364,800 | 50 |
| CT6 7 | £320,000 | 83 |
| CT6 8 | £355,000 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full CT6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CT6 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT6 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT6 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT6 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CT6 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CT6 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.