Lower Corniche, Hythe house prices

Lower Corniche, Hythe house prices are built from 83 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2005 and the most recent on 13 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £315,000.

HM Land Registry83 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Nov 2025

There are too few years of sales in Lower Corniche, Hythe to plot a trend line. The figures below are drawn from the whole record rather than a yearly series.

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 Lower Corniche, Hythe values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

33 of the sales on record are leasehold and 50 freehold — 39.8% 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 £188,250 and the median freehold sale £400,000 — a gap of +112.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -8.1%. 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 2 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 £315,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.46% 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 CT21, 66 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 21 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times quieter.

Against the 109,758 residents the 2021 census counted in Folkestone and Hythe, that is 0.60 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.

7 state and independent schools have a CT21 postcode: 6 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. Lower Corniche, Hythe sits above that national figure — +100.0%.

Within Hythe the street ranks 55 of 279 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £207,000 (+52.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,949 per square metre, across 19 of the 83 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 £168,526 to £877,650. 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.

Lower Corniche, Hythe 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

• Seabrook Road£215,000 median
• Stade Street£165,000 median
• Dymchurch Road£148,250 median
• North Road£275,000 median
• Stone Street£235,000 median
• Bartholomew Street£95,000 median
• St Leonards Road£184,000 median
• South Road£185,000 median
• Shepherds Walk£169,500 median
• Marine Parade£156,250 median
• Cliff Road£430,000 median
• Ormonde Road£170,000 median
• Romney Way£143,725 median
• Albert Road£186,250 median
• West Parade£265,000 median
• East Street£181,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 50 Lower Corniche4 sales
• 12 Lower Corniche4 sales
• 43 Lower Corniche3 sales
• 27 Lower Corniche3 sales
• 7 Lower Corniche3 sales
• 37 Lower Corniche3 sales
• 35 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 38 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 8 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 6 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 11 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 31 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 23 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 26 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 45 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 10 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 2 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 28 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 33 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 36 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 3 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 46 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 30 Lower Corniche2 sales
• 32 Lower Corniche2 sales

Back to Hythe house prices.

What is the average house price in Lower Corniche, Hythe?

The median price paid in Lower Corniche, Hythe across every sale on the register is £315,000. 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 Lower Corniche, Hythe?

83 sales are on record for Lower Corniche, Hythe, the most recent completing on 13 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

When were Lower Corniche, Hythe house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £315,000, set in 2006. 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 Lower Corniche, Hythe?

£2,949 per square metre, from the 19 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 13 Nov 2025. 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, “Lower Corniche, Hythe 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.