CT20 house prices are built from 16,017 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £135,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +60.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +15.1%.
Median price paid
£135,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+60.7%
Change in real terms
+15.1%
Median per m²
£1,765
HM Land Registry16,017 sales3,391 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How CT20 prices moved
The chart tracks the median CT20 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | £47,000 | £104,362 |
| 2000s | 10 | £125,000 | £227,713 |
| 2010s | 10 | £158,500 | £223,485 |
| 2020s | 7 | £262,995 | £268,712 |
The highest yearly median on record for CT20 is £282,500 in 2025; the lowest is £40,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £40,000 to £269,995.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £88,819, so the real change over the whole record is +204.0% — about +3.65% 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: +60.7% in cash against +15.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 12 GLENDALE the Bayle | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £73,500 | £73,500 |
| 2 Lofthouse Drive | 18 Jun 2026 | Detached | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| FLAT 2 79 Bouverie Road West | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £360,000 | £360,000 |
| 2 MADEIRA COURT Clifton Crescent | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| FLAT 36 PLEYDELL COURT Pleydell Gardens | 18 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £95,000 | £95,000 |
| FLAT 82 1 the Leas | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £78,000 |
| 10 Grange Court | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| FLAT 72 1 the Leas | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 6 Risborough Lines | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 15 Brambley Crescent | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 25 Cromwell Park Place | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 10 Marten Road | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| FLAT 2 15 Ingles Road | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| FLAT 2 EASTCLIFFE HEIGHTS Radnor Bridge Road | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| FLAT 18 TURNBULL PLACE Ingles Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| TOP FLAT 17 Westbourne Gardens | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 36 St Michaels Street | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| FLAT 12 HOMEVALE HOUSE Sandgate High Street | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| 30 Blunden Drive | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £316,000 | £316,000 |
| FLAT 1 4 Bluebell Gardens | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £184,000 | £184,000 |
| FLAT 1 8 Earls Avenue | 11 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £327,500 | £327,500 |
| 9 GRAND COURT Earls Avenue | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £377,500 | £377,500 |
| 74 Church Road | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| FLAT 3 21 Earls Avenue | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 8 Fremantle Road | 6 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £393,000 | £393,000 |
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 CT20 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 12 GLENDALE the Bayle | £47,950 (1996) | £73,500 (2026) | +1.4% | -1.2% |
| FLAT 36 PLEYDELL COURT Pleydell Gardens | £60,950 (1997) | £95,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.1% |
| 2 MADEIRA COURT Clifton Crescent | £89,500 (2002) | £285,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 2 79 Bouverie Road West | £25,000 (1995) | £360,000 (2026) | +9.0% | +6.2% |
| 2 Lofthouse Drive | £386,995 (2024) | £475,000 (2026) | +10.8% | +8.0% |
| FLAT 82 1 the Leas | £79,000 (1995) | £78,000 (2026) | 0.0% | -2.6% |
| FLAT 72 1 the Leas | £80,500 (2001) | £140,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
| 10 Grange Court | £42,500 (1998) | £175,000 (2026) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 15 Brambley Crescent | £65,000 (1999) | £250,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 6 Risborough Lines | £248,500 (2018) | £345,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +0.5% |
| 25 Cromwell Park Place | £83,000 (1999) | £385,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 2 EASTCLIFFE HEIGHTS Radnor Bridge Road | £25,000 (1999) | £80,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. CT20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 8,686 | 54.2% | £110,000 | £3,000 – £1,825,000 |
| Terraced | 3,474 | 21.7% | £142,000 | £500 – £1,125,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,201 | 13.7% | £198,750 | £500 – £1,300,000 |
| Detached | 1,656 | 10.3% | £320,000 | £6,000 – £2,100,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in CT20
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,474 certificates cover CT20, and their median floor area is 71 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 52 m² | about 560 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 95 m² | about 1,023 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 33.3% | 1,490 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 6.3% | 280 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in CT20
8,724 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7,293 freehold — 54.5% 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 £110,000 and the median freehold sale £183,000 — a gap of +66.4%. 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 | 8,724 | 54.5% | £110,000 |
| Freehold | 7,293 | 45.5% | £183,000 |
| New build | 1,382 | 8.6% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 14,635 | 91.4% | £128,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +95.3%. 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 1,267 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 CT20
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Folkestone and Hythe, 43.8% of 63,526 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 288 | 0.5% |
| B | 6,476 | 10.2% |
| C | 21,079 | 33.2% |
| D | 22,910 | 36.1% |
| E | 9,418 | 14.8% |
| F | 2,479 | 3.9% |
| G | 876 | 1.4% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Folkestone and Hythe at £1,172 a month as of Jun 2026 — £801 for a one-bedroom home and £1,278 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £135,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.42% 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 CT20, 418 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 108 violent, 12 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 86 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times busier.
Against the 109,758 residents the 2021 census counted in Folkestone and Hythe, that is 3.81 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 CT20
The 2021 census counted 109,758 residents in Folkestone and Hythe across 48,337 households. 66.6% of those households own their home and 33.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a CT20 postcode: 5 primary, 1 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 Folkestone School for Girls | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,145 |
| Sandgate Primary School | Primary | Community school | 419 |
| Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone | Primary | Academy converter | 411 |
| Cheriton Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 391 |
| St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 215 |
| Folkestone, St Martin's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 196 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Folkestone Central Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal | Ferry | 3.4 km |
| Hythe Station (RHDR) | Tram | 6.3 km |
| Hythe Station (RHDR) | Metro or underground | 6.4 km |
Section 09
How CT20 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. CT20 sits below that national figure — -14.3%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,765 per square metre, across 3,391 of the 16,017 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 £500 to £2,100,000. 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.
CT20 sits in Folkestone and Hythe, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Folkestone and Hythe at 8.1 times median local earnings of £38,755 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
Sectors inside CT20
The closest districts
- CT191.1 km · £137,000
- CT216.1 km · £207,000
- CT1611.9 km · £145,000
- TN2420.6 km · £165,000
- CT1421.8 km · £167,000
- CT322.1 km · £222,000
- TN2322.4 km · £162,000
- CT122.6 km · £187,000
This district mostly covers Folkestone.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in CT20?
The median price paid in CT20 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 CT20?
16,017 sales are on record for CT20, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have CT20 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +60.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +15.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were CT20 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £282,500, set in 2025. 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 CT20?
£1,765 per square metre, from the 3,391 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 19 Jun 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, “CT20 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.