Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone house prices

Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,000. Across the 12 years from 2007 to 2019 the median moved +31.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.1%.

HM Land Registry139 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2019. 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 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone is £155,125 in 2019; the lowest is £29,000 in 1999. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £29,000 to £155,125.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £59,090, so the real change over the whole record is +243.4% — about +6.36% 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: +31.5% in cash against -1.1% 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.

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 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

134 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5 freehold — 96.4% 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 £88,000 and the median freehold sale £117,500 — a gap of +33.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +50.3%. 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 10 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 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.

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 £89,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.80% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone sits below that national figure — -43.5%.

Within Folkestone the street ranks 700 of 742 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £150,000 (-40.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,203 per square metre, across 17 of the 139 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 £16,500 to £260,000. 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.

Westbourne Gardens, 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.

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
• The Bayle£81,000 median
• Enbrook Valley£178,250 median
• Royal Military Avenue£159,748 median
• Clifton Gardens£140,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT A, 33 Westbourne Gardens7 sales
• FLAT 5, 9 Westbourne Gardens7 sales
• FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 17 Westbourne Gardens5 sales
• 35C – 35F Westbourne Gardens5 sales
• TOP FLAT, 17 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• BASEMENT FLAT, 32 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• FLAT 2, 9 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• FLAT 2, 17 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• FLAT 3, 25 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• FLAT 3, LABURNHAM COURT, 22-24 Westbourne Gardens4 sales
• FLAT B, 33 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• 35F Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 14, LABURNHAM COURT, 22 – 24 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 2, 32 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 32 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 15, LABURNHAM COURT, 22 – 24 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 1, 20 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 5, 25 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT 1, LABURNHAM COURT, 22-24 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• FLAT B, 25 Westbourne Gardens3 sales
• GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 27 Westbourne Gardens2 sales
• FLAT 2, LABURNHAM COURT, 22 – 24 Westbourne Gardens2 sales
• FLAT 1, LABURNHAM COURT, 22 – 24 Westbourne Gardens2 sales
• SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 26 Westbourne Gardens2 sales

Back to Folkestone house prices.

What is the average house price in Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone?

The median price paid in Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone across every sale on the register is £89,000. 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 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone?

139 sales are on record for Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone, 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 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +31.5% between 2007 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £155,125, set in 2019. 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 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone?

£1,203 per square metre, from the 17 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, “Westbourne Gardens, 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.