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Westgate-on-Sea market report CT8, Westgate-On-Sea
The CT8 (Westgate-on-Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,481 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CT8 (Westgate-On-Sea) 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: the middle 2026 sale in CT8 (Westgate-On-Sea) came in at £276,500, out of 48 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £263,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,440 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,481 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district CT8 covering Westgate-on-Sea sits in Westgate-On-Sea. 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 CT8 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 buyers actually paid in CT8
48 sales were registered in CT8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £276,500. The mean works out at £263,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in CT8
The last five years of sales put CT8 at roughly £3,440 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CT8 trades 3% below the country as a whole.
A typical CT8 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 | £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 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% 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 CT8 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.
The long view: annualised growth
| 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% |
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 flats dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £327,500 against £165,500 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CT8
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 | £327,500 | 6 | 591 |
| Semi-detached | £332,000 | 8 | 994 |
| Terraced | £276,500 | 14 | 1,771 |
| Flats | £165,500 | 20 | 2,125 |
How many homes change hands in CT8
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 102 sales completed in CT8. 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. 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.
What homes rent for around CT8
For renting purposes CT8 sits in Thanet. The ONS average private rent there is £1,109 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,109 a month is £13,308 a year, which against the £276,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Reading the CT8 market
Only 102 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CT8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Among the 21 measurable districts of its area, CT8 ranks 17 by median price: towards the affordable end.
CT8 (Westgate-on-Sea): the questions that come up
Is CT8 (Westgate-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CT8 (Westgate-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in CT8 (Westgate-on-Sea)?
Where do CT8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CT8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CT8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 2 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the CT8 median sold price.
50% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in CT: the cost
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%) | — |
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
CT8 ranks 3 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.
CT area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CT8, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CT8 8 | £276,500 | 48 |
How CT8 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 | £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 (this report) | £276,500 | +8% |
| CT20 | £269,000 | +3% |
| CT11 | £260,000 | -2% |
| CT16 | £245,000 | -6% |
| CT17 | £222,500 | +9% |
Thinking of selling in CT8? 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 CT8'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.
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Keep digging
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See every individual CT8 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.