The Bayle, Folkestone house prices are built from 191 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £81,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +13.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.8%.
Median price paid
£81,000
Change in cash, 2013–2023
+13.7%
Change in real terms
-15.8%
Median per m²
£1,654
HM Land Registry191 sales60 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How The Bayle, Folkestone prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Bayle, Folkestone house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 | 3 | £45,950 | £102,031 |
| 2000s | 8 | £91,975 | £167,551 |
| 2010s | 7 | £110,000 | £155,100 |
| 2020s | 2 | £77,500 | £79,185 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Bayle, Folkestone is £237,500 in 2016; the lowest is £42,250 in 1999. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £45,950 to £147,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,676, so the real change over the whole record is +60.2% — about +1.76% 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: +13.7% in cash against -15.8% 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 | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £73,500 | £73,500 |
| Flat 6 Glendale | 24 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £73,500 | £73,500 |
| Flat 47 Glendale | 20 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| Flat 28 Glendale | 29 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £93,000 | £95,022 |
| Flat 56 Glendale | 13 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £94,701 |
| Flat 2 84 – 86 | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £142,052 |
| Flat 51 Glendale | 22 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £75,500 | £79,444 |
| Flat 49 Glendale | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £79,500 | £85,897 |
| Flat 40 Glendale | 7 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £134,500 | £145,322 |
| The Battery | 30 Jun 2023 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,296,552 |
| 30 | 3 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £275,517 |
| Flat 39 Glendale | 27 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £91,839 |
| 34 | 21 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| Flat 3 84 – 86 | 3 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £135,500 | £146,402 |
| Flat 52 Glendale | 20 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 32 | 20 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £265,000 | £307,025 |
| Flat 26 Glendale | 30 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £98,480 |
| Flat 5 Glendale | 8 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £81,101 |
| Flat 29 Glendale | 22 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £77,500 | £89,790 |
| Flat 9 Glendale | 27 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £72,000 | £83,418 |
| Flat 1a Glendale | 21 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £71,000 | £82,260 |
| Flat 59 Glendale | 3 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £101,376 |
| 16 | 17 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 74 | 11 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| Flat 21 Glendale | 10 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £88,441 |
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 The Bayle, Folkestone 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 6 GLENDALE the Bayle | £45,950 (1996) | £73,500 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 47 GLENDALE the Bayle | £64,500 (1997) | £165,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 28 GLENDALE the Bayle | £54,997 (2013) | £93,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.4% |
| FLAT 56 GLENDALE the Bayle | £88,500 (2008) | £90,000 (2024) | +0.1% | -2.8% |
| FLAT 51 GLENDALE the Bayle | £44,000 (1999) | £75,500 (2024) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 49 GLENDALE the Bayle | £46,000 (2001) | £79,500 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| FLAT 39 GLENDALE the Bayle | £40,500 (1999) | £85,000 (2023) | +3.1% | +0.4% |
| 34 the Bayle | £192,500 (2013) | £320,000 (2023) | +5.2% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 52 GLENDALE the Bayle | £110,000 (2020) | £160,000 (2023) | +13.3% | +6.7% |
| 32 the Bayle | £38,000 (1996) | £265,000 (2022) | +7.8% | +5.2% |
| FLAT 26 GLENDALE the Bayle | £59,950 (1996) | £85,000 (2022) | +1.4% | -1.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Bayle, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 136 | 71.2% | £73,500 | £18,000 – £295,000 |
| Terraced | 41 | 21.5% | £192,500 | £38,000 – £395,000 |
| Semi-detached | 10 | 5.2% | £167,000 | £35,000 – £360,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 2.1% | £420,000 | £190,000 – £1,200,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Bayle, Folkestone
135 of the sales on record are leasehold and 56 freehold — 70.7% 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 £73,500 and the median freehold sale £193,750 — a gap of +163.6%. 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 | 135 | 70.7% | £73,500 |
| Freehold | 56 | 29.3% | £193,750 |
| New build | 19 | 9.9% | £45,950 |
| Existing home | 172 | 90.1% | £85,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.9%. 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 11 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 The Bayle, 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 £81,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 17.36% 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 The Bayle, 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.
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 The Bayle, Folkestone compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Bayle, Folkestone sits below that national figure — -48.6%.
Within Folkestone the street ranks 713 of 742 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-46.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,654 per square metre, across 60 of the 191 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 £18,000 to £1,200,000. 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.
The Bayle, 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
- Sandgate Road£115,000 median
- Earls Avenue£135,000 median
- Shorncliffe Road£125,000 median
- Bouverie Road West£112,000 median
- Sandgate High Street£115,000 median
- The Leas£148,000 median
- Castle Hill Avenue£116,750 median
- Clifton Crescent£160,000 median
- Augusta Gardens£89,973 median
- Grimston Gardens£140,000 median
- Grimston Avenue£149,000 median
- Church Road£168,000 median
- Enbrook Valley£178,250 median
- Royal Military Avenue£159,748 median
- Clifton Gardens£140,000 median
- Risborough Lane£124,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 32 the Bayle5 sales
- FLAT 47, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 39, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 26, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 9, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- 16 the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 32, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 41, GLENDALE the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT C, the PRIORY, 2 the Bayle4 sales
- FLAT 12, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 28, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 51, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 49, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- 34 the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 29, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 1A, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- 74 the Bayle3 sales
- 11 the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 11, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- 36 the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 48, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- FLAT 54, GLENDALE the Bayle3 sales
- 52 the Bayle3 sales
- 12 the Bayle3 sales
Back to Folkestone house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Bayle, Folkestone?
The median price paid in The Bayle, Folkestone across every sale on the register is £81,000. 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 The Bayle, Folkestone?
191 sales are on record for The Bayle, Folkestone, 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 The Bayle, Folkestone house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +13.7% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Bayle, Folkestone house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £237,500, set in 2016. 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 The Bayle, Folkestone?
£1,654 per square metre, from the 60 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, “The Bayle, 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.