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Herne market report CT6 8, Herne Bay
The CT6 8 (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: 5,907 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT6 8 (Herne Bay) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 62 registered 2026 sales put the CT6 8 (Herne Bay) median at £355,000, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £358,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,070 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,907 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CT6 8 is a single group of streets within CT6 (Herne Bay), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CT6 8 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 CT6 8 sells for
The CT6 8 median stands at £355,000 for 2026, built from 62 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £358,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
CT6 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of CT6 8 home has cost about £4,070 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CT6 8 runs 25% above it.
A typical CT6 8 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 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 62 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 138 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 142 |
| 2023 | £332,500 | £365,336 | 121 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 154 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 204 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 144 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 187 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 173 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 181 |
| 2016 | £248,000 | £346,954 | 191 |
| 2015 | £227,500 | £321,458 | 217 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 189 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 198 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 157 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 140 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 158 |
| 2009 | £168,000 | £270,061 | 125 |
| 2008 | £179,500 | £294,238 | 130 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 277 |
| 2006 | £172,500 | £299,438 | 259 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 169 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 236 |
| 2003 | £142,000 | £261,598 | 236 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 268 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 199 |
| 2000 | £76,800 | £150,720 | 193 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 218 |
| 1998 | £62,200 | £125,555 | 220 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 278 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 185 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 158 |
In cash terms the typical CT6 8 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 233%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CT6 8 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 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.4%). 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) | +9.2% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in CT6 8
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, 62 sales completed in CT6 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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.
Rents around CT6 8
CT6 8 falls under Canterbury, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,276 a month is £15,312 a year, which against the £355,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
CT6 8 (Herne): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CT6 8 (Herne)?
Are property prices falling in CT6 8 (Herne)?
Is CT6 8 (Herne) a good place to buy a house?
Are CT6 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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 is for sale in CT6 right 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 8: 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.
What another bedroom costs in CT
Real sold prices by size across the CT area, straight 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. 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.
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 5 | £240,000 | 45 |
| CT6 6 | £364,800 | 50 |
| CT6 7 | £320,000 | 83 |
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 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CT6 8'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.
Estate agents working CT6 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CT6 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CT6 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CT6 8 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.