Downs Road, Canterbury house prices are built from 117 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 15 years from 2007 to 2022 the median moved +46.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.4%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2007–2022
+46.5%
Change in real terms
-2.4%
Median per m²
£2,034
HM Land Registry117 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Downs Road, Canterbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downs Road, Canterbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 5 | £130,000 | £236,822 |
| 2020s | 2 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downs Road, Canterbury is £315,000 in 2022; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £315,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +198.8% — about +4.14% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +46.5% in cash against -2.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 13 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 78 | 26 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 49 | 2 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| 12 | 19 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £440,263 |
| 72 | 24 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| 9 | 28 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 63 | 31 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £292,500 | £338,887 |
| 6 | 28 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £561,915 |
| 126 | 16 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 87 | 1 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 32 | 27 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £297,500 | £375,874 |
| 77 | 20 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 11 | 10 May 2021 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 101 | 30 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £220,000 | £277,957 |
| 138 | 31 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £257,000 | £332,755 |
| 80 | 24 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £225,000 | £291,322 |
| 166 | 3 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £157,500 | £203,926 |
| 40 | 16 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £180,000 | £239,887 |
| 98 | 12 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £255,000 | £347,056 |
| 45 | 30 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £265,000 | £360,666 |
| 134 | 7 Apr 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 2 | 29 Mar 2016 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £432,772 |
| 29 | 21 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £244,000 | £344,040 |
| 48 | 2 Dec 2014 | Terraced | £245,000 | £351,424 |
| 122 | 17 Oct 2014 | Terraced | £240,000 | £344,252 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Downs Road, Canterbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Downs Road | £76,000 (1999) | £220,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.3% |
| 78 Downs Road | £67,500 (1998) | £200,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 49 Downs Road | £222,000 (2004) | £265,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -1.9% |
| 72 Downs Road | £215,000 (2007) | £265,000 (2022) | +1.4% | -1.3% |
| 9 Downs Road | £242,000 (2012) | £315,000 (2022) | +2.7% | +0.1% |
| 63 Downs Road | £56,000 (1997) | £292,500 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 87 Downs Road | £67,995 (1998) | £260,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 77 Downs Road | £135,000 (2002) | £250,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.0% |
| 80 Downs Road | £77,500 (1999) | £225,000 (2020) | +5.2% | +3.0% |
| 98 Downs Road | £125,000 (2002) | £255,000 (2017) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 45 Downs Road | £96,000 (2001) | £265,000 (2017) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 134 Downs Road | £124,500 (2007) | £180,000 (2017) | +3.8% | +1.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downs Road, Canterbury is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 70 | 59.8% | £135,000 | £48,500 – £297,500 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 22.2% | £194,000 | £54,000 – £485,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 16 | 13.7% | £124,500 | £35,000 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.3% | £70,000 | £35,000 – £100,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downs Road, Canterbury
16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 101 freehold — 13.7% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £125,000 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +24.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 16 | 13.7% | £125,000 |
| Freehold | 101 | 86.3% | £155,000 |
| New build | 4 | 3.4% | £84,000 |
| Existing home | 113 | 96.6% | £146,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -42.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 25 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Downs Road, Canterbury
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Canterbury, 45.7% of 79,332 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 677 | 0.9% |
| B | 9,512 | 12.0% |
| C | 26,095 | 32.9% |
| D | 29,426 | 37.1% |
| E | 10,512 | 13.3% |
| F | 2,355 | 3.0% |
| G | 755 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Canterbury at £1,279 a month as of Jun 2026 — £875 for a one-bedroom home and £1,366 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.37% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CT2, 307 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 1 burglary, 12 vehicle-related and 72 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.8 times busier.
Against the 157,432 residents the 2021 census counted in Canterbury, that is 1.95 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Downs Road, Canterbury
The 2021 census counted 157,432 residents in Canterbury across 63,792 households. 65.7% of those households own their home and 34.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a CT2 postcode: 5 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Canterbury Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,984 |
| The Archbishop's School | Secondary | Foundation school | 770 |
| Orion Spires | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 620 |
| Blean Primary School | Primary | Community school | 449 |
| The Canterbury Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 421 |
| Sturry Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 414 |
| St Stephen's Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 400 |
| St Stephen's Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 263 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Canterbury East Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Sturry Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Bekesbourne Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
| Chartham Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
Section 09
How Downs Road, Canterbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downs Road, Canterbury sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Within Canterbury the street ranks 1053 of 1170 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £205,000 (-34.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,034 per square metre, across 37 of the 117 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £35,000 to £485,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Downs Road, Canterbury sits in Canterbury, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Canterbury at 9.4 times median local earnings of £36,558 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Station Road West£137,000 median
- Whitstable Road£215,000 median
- Roper Road£219,950 median
- Westwood Drive£275,000 median
- London Road£170,000 median
- Rough Common Road£230,998 median
- St Stephens Road£174,800 median
- Westgate Close£164,000 median
- Orient Place£139,000 median
- Cedar Road£174,500 median
- Kemsing Gardens£176,500 median
- Kirbys Lane£160,000 median
- Blean Common£275,000 median
- Holters Mill£173,475 median
- Bishops Way£158,475 median
- Chapel Lane£241,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 86 Downs Road4 sales
- 87 Downs Road3 sales
- 134 Downs Road3 sales
- 122 Downs Road3 sales
- 83 Downs Road3 sales
- 59 Downs Road3 sales
- 107 Downs Road3 sales
- 26 Downs Road2 sales
- 78 Downs Road2 sales
- 49 Downs Road2 sales
- 72 Downs Road2 sales
- 9 Downs Road2 sales
- 63 Downs Road2 sales
- 77 Downs Road2 sales
- 80 Downs Road2 sales
- 98 Downs Road2 sales
- 45 Downs Road2 sales
- 48 Downs Road2 sales
- 36 Downs Road2 sales
- 121 Downs Road2 sales
- 65 Downs Road2 sales
- 95 Downs Road2 sales
- 136 Downs Road2 sales
- 1 Downs Road2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downs Road, Canterbury?
The median price paid in Downs Road, Canterbury across every sale on the register is £135,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Downs Road, Canterbury?
117 sales are on record for Downs Road, Canterbury, the most recent completing on 13 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downs Road, Canterbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.5% between 2007 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downs Road, Canterbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £315,000, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Downs Road, Canterbury?
£2,034 per square metre, from the 37 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 13 Mar 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Downs Road, Canterbury house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.