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Birchington-on-Sea market report CT7, Birchington
The standing CT7 (Birchington-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,669 HM Land Registry entries for CT7 (Birchington), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CT7 (Birchington) home changed hands for £310,000 in 2026 (median of 75 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £337,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,669 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CT7 is a postcode district covering Birchington-on-Sea, St Nicholas-at-Wade, Sarre in Birchington. 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 CT7 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 CT7
The CT7 median stands at £310,000 for 2026, built from 75 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £337,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CT7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CT7 costs about £3,940 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CT7 trades 9% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CT7 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 | £310,000 | £310,000 | 75 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 228 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 182 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 171 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 251 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 308 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 240 |
| 2019 | £283,000 | £370,945 | 254 |
| 2018 | £283,000 | £377,244 | 232 |
| 2017 | £249,000 | £339,611 | 283 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 289 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 289 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 305 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 251 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 230 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 246 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 200 |
| 2009 | £166,000 | £266,846 | 224 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 208 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 385 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 379 |
| 2005 | £175,500 | £312,319 | 271 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 347 |
| 2003 | £146,400 | £269,704 | 348 |
| 2002 | £117,000 | £220,134 | 370 |
| 2001 | £93,200 | £179,172 | 342 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 280 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 374 |
| 1998 | £61,200 | £123,537 | 278 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 351 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 278 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 200 |
In cash terms the typical CT7 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT7 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 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−11.0%). 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, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £473,000 against £188,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CT7
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 | £473,000 | 17 | 2,793 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 31 | 2,673 |
| Terraced | £269,000 | 10 | 1,185 |
| Flats | £188,500 | 17 | 2,018 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.6% | −6.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 183 sales completed in CT7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 340 sales a year before the financial crisis and 181 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.
How CT7 trades
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.
What tenants pay around CT7
The local authority for CT7 is Thanet, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,109 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £766 a month here against £1,669 for four or more bedrooms.
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.
CT7 (Birchington-on-Sea): the questions that come up
Is CT7 (Birchington-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT7 (Birchington-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in CT7 (Birchington-on-Sea)?
Are CT7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CT
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%) | — |
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
CT7 ranks 16 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.
Five-year change in the median, CT area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CT7, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CT7 0 | £332,500 | 14 |
| CT7 9 | £310,000 | 61 |
How CT7 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 | £335,000 | +0% |
| CT13 | £335,000 | +5% |
| CT7 (this report) | £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 CT7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CT7.
Go deeper
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See every individual CT7 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.