Margate house prices

Margate house prices are built from 26,117 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £132,813. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +46.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.6%.

HM Land Registry26,117 sales5,254 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Margate 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 Margate is £285,000 in 2024; the lowest is £42,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £265,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,480, so the real change over the whole record is +177.5% — about +3.35% 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: +46.0% in cash against +4.6% 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 Margate values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 7,241 certificates cover Margate, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

7,477 of the sales on record are leasehold and 18,640 freehold — 28.6% 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 £93,019 and the median freehold sale £155,000 — a gap of +66.6%. 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 — +23.1%. 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 1,915 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 Thanet, 43.0% of 87,184 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 Thanet at £1,110 a month as of Jun 2026 — £767 for a one-bedroom home and £1,219 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £132,813 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.03% 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 CT9, 492 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 177 violent, 4 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 120 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times busier.

Against the 140,587 residents the 2021 census counted in Thanet, that is 3.50 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 140,587 residents in Thanet across 62,200 households. 61.8% of those households own their home and 38.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

9 state and independent schools have a CT9 postcode: 8 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. Margate sits below that national figure — -15.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,642 per square metre, across 5,254 of the 26,117 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 £5,000 to £1,600,000. 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.

Margate sits in Thanet, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Thanet at 8.3 times median local earnings of £34,891 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 in Margate

• Harold Road609 sales
• Canterbury Road484 sales
• Northdown Road454 sales
• All Saints Avenue405 sales
• Gordon Road402 sales
• Ramsgate Road332 sales
• High Street309 sales
• Norfolk Road272 sales
• Westbrook Avenue263 sales
• Athelstan Road261 sales
• Trinity Square258 sales
• Godwin Road244 sales
• Northdown Park Road241 sales
• Northumberland Avenue238 sales
• Grosvenor Place230 sales
• Milton Avenue228 sales
• Byron Avenue227 sales
• Eastern Esplanade223 sales
• The Royal Seabathing219 sales
• Nash Court Gardens215 sales
• Ethelbert Road202 sales
• Edgar Road201 sales
• Victoria Avenue199 sales
• Sweyn Road198 sales
• Dane Road194 sales
• Hastings Avenue179 sales
• Eastchurch Road176 sales
• St James Park Road164 sales
• Hawley Square158 sales
• Princess Margaret Avenue158 sales
• Surrey Road158 sales
• Cobbs Place157 sales
• Dalby Square157 sales
• College Road155 sales
• Eaton Road152 sales
• Cornwall Gardens149 sales
• Approach Road145 sales
• Fort Crescent144 sales
• Arlington Gardens143 sales
• Knockholt Road143 sales
• Glencoe Road142 sales
• Royal Esplanade142 sales
• Ethelbert Crescent137 sales
• Westfield Road134 sales
• Queens Parade133 sales
• St Peters Road133 sales
• Victoria Road133 sales
• Upper Dane Road131 sales
• Gloucester Avenue125 sales
• Tivoli Road124 sales
• Fitzroy Avenue123 sales
• Millmead Road123 sales
• Palm Bay Avenue122 sales
• Wherry Close122 sales
• Laleham Gardens119 sales
• Beresford Gardens118 sales
• Staplehurst Gardens116 sales
• Westbrook Gardens113 sales
• Leicester Avenue111 sales
• Marlborough Road110 sales

Postcode districts covering Margate

• CT9£132,950 median

What is the average house price in Margate?

The median price paid in Margate across every sale on the register is £132,813. 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 Margate?

26,117 sales are on record for Margate, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Margate house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +46.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Margate house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, set in 2024. 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 Margate?

£1,642 per square metre, from the 5,254 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 25 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, “Margate 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.