Dover Road, Folkestone house prices are built from 463 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 3 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £97,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +316.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +201.9%.
Median price paid
£97,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+316.7%
Change in real terms
+201.9%
Median per m²
£1,629
HM Land Registry463 sales79 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Dover Road, Folkestone prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dover Road, Folkestone house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £46,000 | £102,142 |
| 2000s | 10 | £90,498 | £164,860 |
| 2010s | 10 | £107,500 | £151,575 |
| 2020s | 6 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dover Road, Folkestone is £425,000 in 2025; the lowest is £28,700 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £28,700 to £425,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £63,728, so the real change over the whole record is +581.4% — about +6.61% 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: +316.7% in cash against +201.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £238,000 | £238,000 |
| Flat 2 62 | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 233 | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £403,000 | £403,000 |
| Flat 2 225 | 12 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £70,000 |
| 13 St Gabriels Court | 18 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| 291 | 26 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 287 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £425,000 | £434,239 |
| 239 | 5 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £451,000 | £460,804 |
| 198 | 30 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 20 Rossendale Court | 6 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 285 | 2 May 2025 | Detached | £522,500 | £533,859 |
| 251 | 21 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £470,000 |
| 196 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £293,000 | £299,370 |
| 103a | 27 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £168,358 |
| 265 | 21 Oct 2024 | Detached | £535,000 | £562,948 |
| Flat 2 79 | 14 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £126,269 |
| 262 | 8 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £414,000 | £435,627 |
| 180a | 4 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £188,000 | £197,821 |
| 135 | 24 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| 197 | 27 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| 122 | 19 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 2 Chilton Court | 5 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| Upper Maisonette 22 | 25 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £63,000 | £66,291 |
| 256 | 22 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 305 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £368,284 |
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 Dover Road, Folkestone values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 Dover Road | £125,000 (2015) | £238,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +2.8% |
| 13 ST GABRIELS COURT Dover Road | £65,000 (2005) | £125,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 287 Dover Road | £80,000 (2001) | £425,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.3% |
| 239 Dover Road | £325,000 (2019) | £451,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +1.4% |
| 20 ROSSENDALE COURT Dover Road | £95,950 (2007) | £120,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.7% |
| 251 Dover Road | £182,500 (2002) | £460,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 196 Dover Road | £31,750 (1997) | £293,000 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| 265 Dover Road | £129,950 (2000) | £535,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| FLAT 2 79 Dover Road | £25,000 (2002) | £120,000 (2024) | +7.4% | +4.5% |
| 180A Dover Road | £88,500 (2004) | £188,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 135 Dover Road | £32,500 (1998) | £270,000 (2024) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 197 Dover Road | £58,000 (2001) | £230,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dover Road, Folkestone 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 | 173 | 37.4% | £110,000 | £15,000 – £430,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 142 | 30.7% | £70,000 | £12,000 – £235,000 |
| Semi-detached | 119 | 25.7% | £197,000 | £10,000 – £560,000 |
| Detached | 29 | 6.3% | £230,000 | £55,000 – £535,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dover Road, Folkestone
136 of the sales on record are leasehold and 327 freehold — 29.4% 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 £70,000 and the median freehold sale £127,000 — a gap of +81.4%. 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 | 136 | 29.4% | £70,000 |
| Freehold | 327 | 70.6% | £127,000 |
| New build | 4 | 0.9% | £49,500 |
| Existing home | 459 | 99.1% | £98,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -49.7%. 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 48 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 Dover Road, Folkestone
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 £97,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.42% 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 CT19, 516 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 133 violent, 12 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 104 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.1 times busier.
Against the 109,758 residents the 2021 census counted in Folkestone and Hythe, that is 4.70 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 Dover Road, Folkestone
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.
13 state and independent schools have a CT19 postcode: 10 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 Harvey Grammar School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,005 |
| Turner Free School | Secondary | Free schools | 997 |
| Folkestone Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 936 |
| Folkestone Primary | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 460 |
| Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 406 |
| Castle Hill Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 395 |
| All Soul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 256 |
| Morehall Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 249 |
| Stella Maris Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Mundella Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 184 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Folkestone Central Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal | Ferry | 3.6 km |
| Hythe Station (RHDR) | Tram | 7.0 km |
| Hythe Station (RHDR) | Metro or underground | 7.0 km |
Section 09
How Dover Road, Folkestone compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dover Road, Folkestone sits below that national figure — -38.1%.
Within Folkestone the street ranks 676 of 742 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-35.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,629 per square metre, across 79 of the 463 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 £10,000 to £560,000. 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.
Dover Road, Folkestone 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
Streets nearby
- Cheriton Road£110,000 median
- Downs Road£199,950 median
- Lynwood£162,500 median
- Cheriton High Street£112,500 median
- Wear Bay Road£210,000 median
- Stanley Road£138,725 median
- Radnor Park Road£123,250 median
- Firs Lane£122,500 median
- Dolphins Road£210,475 median
- Broadmead Road£99,975 median
- Morehall Avenue£156,000 median
- Chart Road£154,750 median
- Sidney Street£110,000 median
- Black Bull Road£100,000 median
- Holywell Avenue£94,000 median
- Linden Crescent£132,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 79 Dover Road6 sales
- 265 Dover Road5 sales
- 208 Dover Road5 sales
- 171 Dover Road5 sales
- UPPER MAISONETTE, 225 Dover Road5 sales
- 5, CHILTON COURT Dover Road5 sales
- 136 Dover Road5 sales
- 149 Dover Road5 sales
- 179 Dover Road5 sales
- 287 Dover Road4 sales
- 195 Dover Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 79 Dover Road4 sales
- 92 Dover Road4 sales
- 311 Dover Road4 sales
- 237 Dover Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 118 Dover Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 84 Dover Road4 sales
- 257 Dover Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 80 Dover Road4 sales
- 234 Dover Road4 sales
- FLAT, 182 Dover Road4 sales
- 165 Dover Road3 sales
- 239 Dover Road3 sales
- 196 Dover Road3 sales
Back to Folkestone house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dover Road, Folkestone?
The median price paid in Dover Road, Folkestone across every sale on the register is £97,500. 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 Dover Road, Folkestone?
463 sales are on record for Dover Road, Folkestone, the most recent completing on 3 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dover Road, Folkestone house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +316.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +201.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dover Road, Folkestone house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £425,000, 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 Dover Road, Folkestone?
£1,629 per square metre, from the 79 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 3 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, “Dover Road, Folkestone 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.