Ardent Road, Dover house prices are built from 170 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 13 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £163,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +154.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +86.9%.
Median price paid
£163,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+154.7%
Change in real terms
+86.9%
HM Land Registry170 salesLatest sale 13 May 2026
Section 01
How Ardent Road, Dover prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ardent Road, Dover house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2008 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £154,250 | £280,998 |
| 2010s | 8 | £106,000 | £149,460 |
| 2020s | 4 | £263,750 | £269,484 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ardent Road, Dover is £318,000 in 2021; the lowest is £85,000 in 2011. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £205,000 to £270,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £344,107, so the real change over the whole record is -17.4% — about -1.19% 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: +154.7% in cash against +86.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 13 May 2026 | Detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 54 | 5 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 120 | 12 Jun 2025 | Detached | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 27 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £360,000 | £378,806 |
| 118 | 8 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 142 | 18 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 45 | 24 Jul 2024 | Detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 72 | 12 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 2 | 23 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 31 | 23 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £103,500 | £108,907 |
| 92 | 11 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 84 | 16 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £190,161 |
| 50 | 16 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £185,839 |
| 5 | 8 Nov 2022 | Detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 48 | 26 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £166,500 | £192,905 |
| 68 | 17 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 106 | 10 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £174,000 | £201,594 |
| 50 | 4 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £176,105 |
| 88 | 3 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 104 | 19 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £183,199 |
| 25 | 11 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| 16 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £318,000 | £401,774 |
| 134 | 16 Apr 2021 | Detached | £345,000 | £435,887 |
| 8 | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £330,000 | £416,935 |
| 29 | 8 Dec 2020 | Detached | £315,000 | £407,851 |
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 Ardent Road, Dover values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Ardent Road | £182,500 (2008) | £370,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 54 Ardent Road | £101,000 (2010) | £165,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 120 Ardent Road | £200,000 (2009) | £400,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 27 Ardent Road | £155,000 (2009) | £360,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.7% |
| 142 Ardent Road | £136,000 (2010) | £270,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +1.9% |
| 45 Ardent Road | £213,000 (2010) | £400,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.5% |
| 72 Ardent Road | £90,000 (2010) | £160,000 (2024) | +4.2% | +1.1% |
| 2 Ardent Road | £140,000 (2009) | £270,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.4% |
| 31 Ardent Road | £63,000 (2009) | £103,500 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.3% |
| 92 Ardent Road | £88,000 (2010) | £160,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.6% |
| 50 Ardent Road | £90,000 (2010) | £172,000 (2023) | +5.1% | +2.0% |
| 84 Ardent Road | £103,000 (2010) | £176,000 (2023) | +4.2% | +1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ardent Road, Dover 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 | 72 | 42.4% | £95,500 | £23,750 – £176,000 |
| Detached | 50 | 29.4% | £220,000 | £155,000 – £415,000 |
| Semi-detached | 37 | 21.8% | £185,000 | £125,000 – £318,000 |
| Terraced | 11 | 6.5% | £147,500 | £48,000 – £249,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ardent Road, Dover
76 of the sales on record are leasehold and 94 freehold — 44.7% 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 £95,250 and the median freehold sale £200,000 — a gap of +110.0%. 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 | 76 | 44.7% | £95,250 |
| Freehold | 94 | 55.3% | £200,000 |
| New build | 80 | 47.1% | £145,000 |
| Existing home | 90 | 52.9% | £178,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.9%. 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 4 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 Ardent Road, Dover
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dover, 44.4% of 61,218 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 222 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,283 | 11.9% |
| C | 19,672 | 32.1% |
| D | 22,734 | 37.1% |
| E | 8,350 | 13.6% |
| F | 2,250 | 3.7% |
| G | 707 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dover at £1,029 a month as of Jun 2026 — £734 for a one-bedroom home and £1,175 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £163,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.55% 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 CT16, 204 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 4 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.
Against the 116,410 residents the 2021 census counted in Dover, that is 1.75 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 Ardent Road, Dover
The 2021 census counted 116,410 residents in Dover across 50,552 households. 67.0% of those households own their home and 32.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a CT16 postcode: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dover Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | Community school | 847 |
| Dover Christ Church Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 761 |
| Whitfield Aspen School | Primary | Community school | 662 |
| St Edmund's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 644 |
| Green Park Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 374 |
| Charlton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 206 |
| Barton Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 202 |
| St Richard's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 191 |
| Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 161 |
| Temple Ewell Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 154 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Dover Priory Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Kearsney Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Dover Eastern Docks Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 2.9 km |
| Dover Western Docks Ferry Terminal | Ferry | 3.1 km |
Section 09
How Ardent Road, Dover compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ardent Road, Dover sits above that national figure — +3.8%.
Within Dover the street ranks 296 of 628 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £139,000 (+17.6%).
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 £23,750 to £415,000. 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.
Ardent Road, Dover sits in Dover, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dover at 7.8 times median local earnings of £37,968 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
- Sandwich Road£152,750 median
- Mayfield Avenue£88,250 median
- The Gateway£148,000 median
- Heathfield Avenue£106,000 median
- Lower Road£190,000 median
- Newlands£172,500 median
- Buckland Avenue£136,000 median
- Cranleigh Drive£135,000 median
- Salisbury Road£139,750 median
- Balfour Road£108,000 median
- Aspen Drive£189,995 median
- Victoria Park£84,000 median
- High Street£102,000 median
- Beauxfield£203,500 median
- Templeside£165,000 median
- East Cliff£110,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 142 Ardent Road5 sales
- 54 Ardent Road4 sales
- 120 Ardent Road4 sales
- 50 Ardent Road4 sales
- 47 Ardent Road4 sales
- 38 Ardent Road4 sales
- 80 Ardent Road4 sales
- 26 Ardent Road3 sales
- 27 Ardent Road3 sales
- 72 Ardent Road3 sales
- 2 Ardent Road3 sales
- 31 Ardent Road3 sales
- 92 Ardent Road3 sales
- 84 Ardent Road3 sales
- 68 Ardent Road3 sales
- 104 Ardent Road3 sales
- 25 Ardent Road3 sales
- 34 Ardent Road3 sales
- 96 Ardent Road3 sales
- 55 Ardent Road3 sales
- 30 Ardent Road3 sales
- 76 Ardent Road3 sales
- 18 Ardent Road3 sales
- 58 Ardent Road3 sales
Back to Dover house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ardent Road, Dover?
The median price paid in Ardent Road, Dover across every sale on the register is £163,500. 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 Ardent Road, Dover?
170 sales are on record for Ardent Road, Dover, the most recent completing on 13 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ardent Road, Dover house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +154.7% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +86.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ardent Road, Dover house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £318,000, set in 2021. 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 Ardent Road, Dover?
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 13 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, “Ardent Road, Dover 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.