East Cliff, Dover house prices are built from 124 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +44.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.1%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+44.9%
Change in real terms
+9.1%
Median per m²
£1,430
HM Land Registry124 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 18 May 2026
Section 01
How East Cliff, Dover prices moved
The chart tracks the median East Cliff, Dover house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £37,000 | £82,157 |
| 2000s | 4 | £87,000 | £158,488 |
| 2010s | 3 | £118,000 | £166,380 |
| 2020s | 1 | £159,400 | £162,865 |
The highest yearly median on record for East Cliff, Dover is £159,400 in 2021; the lowest is £37,000 in 1997. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £37,000 to £159,400.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £78,451, so the real change over the whole record is +156.7% — about +4.01% 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: +44.9% in cash against +9.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Coastguard Cottages | 18 May 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 62 | 12 Mar 2026 | Detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 44 | 11 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £181,250 | £185,190 |
| 11a – 11b | 4 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 54 | 25 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 15 | 4 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £545,000 | £573,470 |
| 65 | 10 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| Flat 4 30 – 32 | 22 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| Flat 3 30 – 32 | 14 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 33a | 18 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £159,000 | £184,215 |
| 36 | 30 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £159,400 | £201,392 |
| 63a | 7 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| Flat 4 20 | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £92,000 | £116,237 |
| Dubris House, 64a | 15 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £270,000 | £341,129 |
| 49 | 19 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £135,000 | £170,565 |
| Flat 3 10 | 7 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £148,898 |
| Flat 1 30 – 32 | 27 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £194,215 |
| 37 | 18 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £110,000 | £143,878 |
| 46 | 13 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £143,000 | £187,041 |
| Basement Flat 10 | 23 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £91,558 |
| 51 | 5 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £147,500 | £192,927 |
| First Floor Flat 7 | 8 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £67,500 | £88,288 |
| 6 | 18 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £385,000 | £513,091 |
| Flat 3 10 | 29 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £146,597 |
| 40 | 6 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £96,000 | £127,940 |
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 East Cliff, Dover values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 COASTGUARD COTTAGES East Cliff | £55,000 (1999) | £175,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 62 East Cliff | £62,000 (1999) | £275,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 44 East Cliff | £145,000 (2006) | £181,250 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| 54 East Cliff | £87,000 (2012) | £160,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.2% |
| 15 East Cliff | £122,500 (1997) | £545,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 65 East Cliff | £180,000 (2004) | £340,000 (2023) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 4 30 – 32 East Cliff | £89,995 (2006) | £120,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 3 30 – 32 East Cliff | £88,500 (2006) | £115,000 (2022) | +1.7% | -1.0% |
| 33A East Cliff | £107,000 (2007) | £159,000 (2022) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 36 East Cliff | £139,000 (2017) | £159,400 (2021) | +3.5% | +1.6% |
| 63A East Cliff | £110,000 (2008) | £165,000 (2021) | +3.2% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 4 20 East Cliff | £70,000 (2006) | £92,000 (2021) | +1.8% | -0.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. East Cliff, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 67 | 54.0% | £121,000 | £25,000 – £545,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 43 | 34.7% | £89,000 | £27,000 – £330,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 6.5% | £145,000 | £55,000 – £340,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 4.8% | £200,000 | £62,000 – £320,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in East Cliff, Dover
42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 82 freehold — 33.9% 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 £88,750 and the median freehold sale £134,500 — a gap of +51.5%. 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 | 42 | 33.9% | £88,750 |
| Freehold | 82 | 66.1% | £134,500 |
| New build | 9 | 7.3% | £89,995 |
| Existing home | 115 | 92.7% | £110,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.2%. 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 12 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 East Cliff, 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 £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.23% 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 East Cliff, 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 East Cliff, Dover compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. East Cliff, Dover sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Within Dover the street ranks 493 of 628 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £139,000 (-20.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,430 per square metre, across 18 of the 124 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 £25,000 to £545,000. 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.
East Cliff, 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
- Ardent Road£163,500 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 51 East Cliff5 sales
- 39 East Cliff5 sales
- 33B East Cliff5 sales
- 65 East Cliff4 sales
- 33A East Cliff4 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 20 East Cliff4 sales
- 56 East Cliff4 sales
- 1, COASTGUARD COTTAGES East Cliff3 sales
- 44 East Cliff3 sales
- 54 East Cliff3 sales
- 15 East Cliff3 sales
- DUBRIS HOUSE, 64A East Cliff3 sales
- FLAT 3, 10 East Cliff3 sales
- 64 East Cliff3 sales
- 5 East Cliff3 sales
- 9 East Cliff3 sales
- 11B East Cliff3 sales
- 62 East Cliff2 sales
- FLAT 4, 30 – 32 East Cliff2 sales
- FLAT 3, 30 – 32 East Cliff2 sales
- 36 East Cliff2 sales
- 63A East Cliff2 sales
- FLAT 4, 20 East Cliff2 sales
- FLAT 1, 30 – 32 East Cliff2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in East Cliff, Dover?
The median price paid in East Cliff, Dover across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 East Cliff, Dover?
124 sales are on record for East Cliff, Dover, the most recent completing on 18 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have East Cliff, Dover house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.9% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were East Cliff, Dover house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £159,400, 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 East Cliff, Dover?
£1,430 per square metre, from the 18 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 18 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, “East Cliff, 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.