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Westgate-on-Sea market report CT8 8, Westgate-On-Sea
The CT8 8 (Westgate-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,481 registered sales in CT8 8 (Westgate-On-Sea) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CT8 8 (Westgate-On-Sea) home changed hands for £276,500 in 2026 (median of 48 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £263,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,440 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,481 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like CT8 8 is a single group of streets within CT8 (Westgate-On-Sea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CT8 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 CT8 8 homes really sell for
In the CT8 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £276,500, from 48 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £263,800, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in CT8 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CT8 8 sales average about £3,440 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CT8 8 3% below the national figure.
A typical CT8 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £276,500 | £276,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £267,500 | £273,897 | 145 |
| 2024 | £264,000 | £280,686 | 134 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 109 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 144 |
| 2021 | £255,900 | £324,002 | 199 |
| 2020 | £227,500 | £295,186 | 124 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 161 |
| 2018 | £228,000 | £303,928 | 171 |
| 2017 | £220,000 | £300,058 | 198 |
| 2016 | £207,000 | £289,595 | 155 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 197 |
| 2014 | £170,000 | £241,175 | 212 |
| 2013 | £148,500 | £213,677 | 158 |
| 2012 | £142,500 | £209,742 | 143 |
| 2011 | £149,500 | £225,688 | 162 |
| 2010 | £157,500 | £247,001 | 123 |
| 2009 | £142,500 | £229,070 | 129 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 135 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 310 |
| 2006 | £139,500 | £242,154 | 283 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 213 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 211 |
| 2003 | £114,000 | £210,016 | 206 |
| 2002 | £91,000 | £171,216 | 234 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 231 |
| 2000 | £70,000 | £137,375 | 210 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 185 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 162 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 163 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 121 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical CT8 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £276,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 203%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CT8 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 2003 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.2%). 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) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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.
CT8 8 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 116 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.
What kind of market CT8 8 is
This is a thin market: 48 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.
What tenants pay around CT8 8
CT8 8 falls under Thanet, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,109 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £766 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,669 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Thanet
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £276,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,109 a month (£13,308 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
CT8 8 (Westgate-on-Sea): the questions that come up
Is CT8 8 (Westgate-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT8 8 (Westgate-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in CT8 8 (Westgate-on-Sea)?
Will CT8 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
CT8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 2 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CT8 district, not just CT8 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
50% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 CT8 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. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CT area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CT area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full CT8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CT8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CT8 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CT8 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CT8 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CT8 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every CT8 8 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.
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.