Heathfield Avenue, Dover house prices

Heathfield Avenue, Dover house prices are built from 321 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £106,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.9%.

HM Land Registry321 sales106 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Heathfield Avenue, Dover 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Heathfield Avenue, Dover is £209,500 in 2022; the lowest is £36,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £38,500 to £182,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £85,488, so the real change over the whole record is +113.5% — about +2.48% 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: +40.9% in cash against +0.9% 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.

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.

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 Heathfield Avenue, Dover values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Heathfield Avenue, Dover is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

14 of the sales on record are leasehold and 307 freehold — 4.4% 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 £102,500 and the median freehold sale £106,500 — a gap of +3.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 19 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.

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.

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 £106,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.65% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Heathfield Avenue, Dover sits below that national figure — -32.7%.

Within Dover the street ranks 511 of 628 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £139,000 (-23.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,401 per square metre, across 106 of the 321 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 £2,500 to £1,249,999. 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.

Heathfield Avenue, 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.

Streets nearby

• Sandwich Road£152,750 median
• Mayfield Avenue£88,250 median
• The Gateway£148,000 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
• East Cliff£110,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 97 Heathfield Avenue6 sales
• 156 Heathfield Avenue6 sales
• 170 Heathfield Avenue6 sales
• 126 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 148 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 58 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 121 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 127 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 93 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 118 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 103 Heathfield Avenue5 sales
• 40 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 136 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 26 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 107 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 105 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 60 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 133 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 186 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 168 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 19, ST ANNES COURT Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 145 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 70 Heathfield Avenue4 sales
• 144 Heathfield Avenue4 sales

Back to Dover house prices.

What is the average house price in Heathfield Avenue, Dover?

The median price paid in Heathfield Avenue, Dover across every sale on the register is £106,000. 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 Heathfield Avenue, Dover?

321 sales are on record for Heathfield Avenue, Dover, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Heathfield Avenue, Dover house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +40.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Heathfield Avenue, Dover house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £209,500, 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 Heathfield Avenue, Dover?

£1,401 per square metre, from the 106 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 22 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, “Heathfield Avenue, 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.