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Birchington-on-Sea market report CT7 9, Birchington
The CT7 9 (Birchington-on-Sea) 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: 6,463 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CT7 9 (Birchington) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CT7 9 (Birchington) is £310,000, from 61 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £335,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,463 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CT7 9 is one sector of CT7 (Birchington): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CT7 9 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 CT7 9 sells for
Take the 61 registered 2026 sales in CT7 9 and the middle price, the median, is £310,000. The mean lands at £335,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CT7 9
A square metre of CT7 9 home has cost about £3,980 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 CT7 9 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
A typical CT7 9 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 153 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 139 |
| 2023 | £347,000 | £381,268 | 121 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 183 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 216 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 162 |
| 2019 | £284,500 | £372,911 | 198 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 173 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 203 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 217 |
| 2015 | £212,500 | £300,263 | 220 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 225 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 187 |
| 2012 | £188,000 | £276,713 | 171 |
| 2011 | £196,000 | £295,885 | 195 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 147 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 174 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 160 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 276 |
| 2006 | £182,800 | £317,317 | 276 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 211 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 251 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 274 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 281 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 249 |
| 2000 | £86,200 | £169,168 | 204 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 286 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 210 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 266 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 213 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical CT7 9 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% 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 CT7 9 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −11.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CT7 9 recorded 61 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 253 sales a year before the financial crisis and 131 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.
Reading the CT7 9 market
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.
The rental side of CT7 9
For renting purposes CT7 9 sits in Thanet. The ONS average private rent there is £1,109 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £766 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,669, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Thanet
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £310,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,109 a month (£13,308 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CT7 9 (Birchington-on-Sea)
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What happens to CT7 9 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CT7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CT7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT7 0 | £332,500 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full CT7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CT7 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CT7 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the CT7 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CT7 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT7 9.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CT7 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CT7 9 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.
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.