Rough Common Road, Canterbury house prices are built from 160 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £230,998. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved +58.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.9%.
Median price paid
£230,998
Change in cash, 2011–2022
+58.6%
Change in real terms
+19.9%
HM Land Registry160 salesLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Rough Common Road, Canterbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rough Common Road, Canterbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 4 | £85,000 | £188,740 |
| 2000s | 6 | £149,500 | £272,345 |
| 2010s | 4 | £277,000 | £390,570 |
| 2020s | 2 | £390,000 | £398,478 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rough Common Road, Canterbury is £392,500 in 2022; the lowest is £84,000 in 1996. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £84,000 to £392,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £182,215, so the real change over the whole record is +149.6% — about +3.58% 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: +58.6% in cash against +19.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 27 | 1 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 149 | 30 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 52 | 29 Jul 2025 | Detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 9 | 19 Dec 2024 | Detached | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 99 | 10 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 71 | 10 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 135 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 38 | 16 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £542,000 | £585,609 |
| 102 | 12 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| 57 | 22 May 2023 | Detached | £500,000 | £540,230 |
| 133 | 9 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 145 | 17 Nov 2022 | Detached | £685,000 | £793,632 |
| 28 | 31 Oct 2022 | Detached | £460,000 | £532,950 |
| 125 | 6 Oct 2022 | Detached | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 131 | 31 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 100 | 11 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 125 | 25 Mar 2022 | Detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 171 | 16 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £326,721 |
| 20 | 1 Jun 2021 | Detached | £525,000 | £663,306 |
| 87 | 19 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 25 | 19 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £467,473 |
| 43 | 9 Mar 2021 | Detached | £405,000 | £511,694 |
| 21 | 5 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £412,500 | £521,169 |
| 71 | 19 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
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 Rough Common 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Rough Common Road | £87,000 (1999) | £500,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +3.9% |
| 27 Rough Common Road | £130,000 (2002) | £370,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
| 149 Rough Common Road | £85,000 (1996) | £500,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 9 Rough Common Road | £95,000 (1997) | £500,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 99 Rough Common Road | £212,000 (2010) | £375,000 (2024) | +4.2% | +1.1% |
| 71 Rough Common Road | £255,000 (2021) | £250,000 (2024) | -0.7% | -6.5% |
| 135 Rough Common Road | £50,000 (1996) | £220,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 38 Rough Common Road | £91,000 (1995) | £542,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 102 Rough Common Road | £65,500 (1996) | £415,000 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 133 Rough Common Road | £177,000 (2005) | £495,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 125 Rough Common Road | £300,000 (2022) | £435,000 (2022) | +45.0% | +45.0% |
| 100 Rough Common Road | £240,100 (2017) | £350,000 (2022) | +7.8% | +4.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rough Common 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 94 | 58.8% | £212,000 | £37,000 – £542,000 |
| Detached | 61 | 38.1% | £275,000 | £65,000 – £685,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 2.5% | £99,375 | £37,000 – £147,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.6% | £198,500 | £198,500 – £198,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rough Common Road, Canterbury
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 156 freehold — 2.5% 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 £110,625 and the median freehold sale £238,250 — a gap of +115.4%. 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 | 4 | 2.5% | £110,625 |
| Freehold | 156 | 97.5% | £238,250 |
| New build | 3 | 1.9% | £103,000 |
| Existing home | 157 | 98.1% | £236,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -56.4%. 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 6 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 Rough Common 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 £230,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.64% 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 Rough Common 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 Rough Common Road, Canterbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rough Common Road, Canterbury sits above that national figure — +46.7%.
Within Canterbury the street ranks 530 of 1170 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £205,000 (+12.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £37,000 to £685,000. 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.
Rough Common 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
- 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
- Downs Road£135,000 median
- Bishops Way£158,475 median
- Chapel Lane£241,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 21 Rough Common Road5 sales
- 149 Rough Common Road4 sales
- 73 Rough Common Road4 sales
- 69 Rough Common Road4 sales
- 27 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 9 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 99 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 135 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 102 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 20 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 87 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 112 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 169 Rough Common Road3 sales
- 3 COLLEGE PLACE, 67 Rough Common Road3 sales
- VIRGINIA LODGE Rough Common Road3 sales
- 71 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 38 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 133 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 125 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 100 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 43 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 107 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 62 Rough Common Road2 sales
- 18 Rough Common Road2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rough Common Road, Canterbury?
The median price paid in Rough Common Road, Canterbury across every sale on the register is £230,998. 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 Rough Common Road, Canterbury?
160 sales are on record for Rough Common Road, Canterbury, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rough Common Road, Canterbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.6% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rough Common Road, Canterbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £392,500, 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 Rough Common Road, Canterbury?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 May 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, “Rough Common 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.