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Herne market report CT6, Herne Bay
The CT6 (Herne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 24,857 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CT6 (Herne Bay) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 240 registered 2026 sales put the CT6 (Herne Bay) median at £335,000, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £345,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,920 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 24,857 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district CT6 covering Herne Bay, Herne, Broomfield sits in Herne Bay. 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 CT6 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 CT6 homes really sell for
Take the 240 registered 2026 sales in CT6 and the middle price, the median, is £335,000. The mean lands at £345,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
CT6 prices by floor area
A square metre of CT6 home has cost about £3,920 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CT6 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
CT6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 240 |
| 2025 | £332,600 | £340,553 | 690 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 652 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 544 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 719 |
| 2021 | £334,200 | £423,140 | 852 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 606 |
| 2019 | £290,000 | £380,121 | 690 |
| 2018 | £290,000 | £386,575 | 732 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 721 |
| 2016 | £259,300 | £362,763 | 770 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 825 |
| 2014 | £202,500 | £287,282 | 853 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 795 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 620 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 557 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 627 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 562 |
| 2008 | £182,000 | £298,336 | 551 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 1,162 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 1,167 |
| 2005 | £171,500 | £305,201 | 744 |
| 2004 | £163,000 | £296,040 | 986 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 1,186 |
| 2002 | £123,500 | £232,364 | 1,322 |
| 2001 | £97,500 | £187,439 | 943 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 728 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 791 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 802 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 959 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 801 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 660 |
In cash terms the typical CT6 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 202%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT6 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 (+26.7% 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.
What CT6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £425,000 against £175,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, CT6
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 | £425,000 | 91 | 9,785 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 76 | 7,058 |
| Terraced | £266,500 | 34 | 4,323 |
| Flats | £175,000 | 39 | 3,691 |
How many homes change hands in CT6
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 521 CT6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,030 sales a year before the financial crisis and 569 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 rental side of CT6
The local authority for CT6 is Canterbury, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £335,000 median sold price, £1,276 a month is £15,312 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
Asked and answered: CT6 (Herne)
Are property prices falling in CT6 (Herne)?
Is CT6 (Herne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT6 (Herne)?
Will CT6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CT6 now
Everything above is what homes in CT6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 12 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the CT6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CT prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CT area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CT6 ranks 13 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CT6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CT6 5 | £240,000 | 45 |
| CT6 6 | £364,800 | 50 |
| CT6 7 | £320,000 | 83 |
| CT6 8 | £355,000 | 62 |
How CT6 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 | £344,500 | +1% |
| CT10 | £337,500 | -9% |
| CT6 (this report) | £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 CT6? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CT6'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CT6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CT6 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.