Sold Price History


Cobbs Place, Margate house prices

Cobbs Place, Margate house prices are built from 157 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 14 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £45,000. Across the 11 years from 2012 to 2023 the median moved +52.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +10.2%.

Median price paid

£45,000

Change in cash, 2012–2023

+52.4%

Change in real terms

+10.2%

Median per m²

£975

HM Land Registry157 sales41 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Apr 2026

Section 01

How Cobbs Place, Margate prices moved

The chart tracks the median Cobbs Place, Margate 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.

Cobbs Place, Margate house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2023
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s4£23,500£52,181
2000s6£60,250£109,758
2010s5£49,000£69,090
2020s2£59,000£60,283
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Cobbs Place, Margate is £66,000 in 2005; the lowest is £19,500 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £19,500 to £64,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £42,300, so the real change over the whole record is +63.5% — about +1.84% 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: +52.4% in cash against +10.2% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
Flat 90 Homefern House14 Apr 2026Flat or maisonette£45,000£45,000
Flat 87 Homefern House12 Dec 2025Flat or maisonette£56,500£57,728
Flat 41 Homefern House23 May 2025Flat or maisonette£47,000£48,022
Flat 18 Homefern House27 Mar 2025Flat or maisonette£45,000£45,978
Flat 65 Homefern House19 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£64,000£69,149
Flat 5 Homefern House6 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£63,000£68,069
Flat 17 Homefern House25 Aug 2023Flat or maisonette£55,000£59,425
Flat 75 Homefern House2 Aug 2023Flat or maisonette£64,000£69,149
Flat 15 Homefern House18 Jul 2023Flat or maisonette£64,000£69,149
Flat 96 Homefern House10 Jul 2023Flat or maisonette£70,000£75,632
Wardens Flat Homefern House14 Dec 2022Flat or maisonette£110,000£127,445
Flat 26 Homefern House30 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£56,000£64,881
Flat 19 Homefern House28 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£60,000£69,515
Flat 92 Homefern House28 Nov 2022Flat or maisonette£48,000£55,612
Flat 58 Homefern House31 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£63,000£72,991
Flat 14 Homefern House24 May 2022Flat or maisonette£58,000£67,198
Flat 75 Homefern House10 Sep 2021Flat or maisonette£64,500£81,492
Flat 53 Homefern House30 Apr 2021Flat or maisonette£55,000£69,489
Flat 3 Homefern House22 Feb 2021Flat or maisonette£55,000£69,489
Flat 65 Homefern House15 Dec 2020Flat or maisonette£55,000£71,212
Flat 16 Homefern House16 Dec 2019Flat or maisonette£55,000£71,939
Flat 38 Homefern House29 Nov 2019Flat or maisonette£70,000£91,558
Flat 88 Homefern House15 Nov 2019Flat or maisonette£63,000£82,403
Flat 49 Homefern House25 Oct 2019Flat or maisonette£64,500£84,365
Flat 42 Homefern House27 Sep 2019Flat or maisonette£52,000£68,015
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Cobbs Place, Margate values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 90 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£55,000 (2004)£45,000 (2026)-0.9%-3.7%
FLAT 87 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£30,000 (2001)£56,500 (2025)+2.7%-0.1%
FLAT 65 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£20,000 (1998)£64,000 (2023)+4.8%+2.1%
FLAT 5 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£53,000 (2002)£63,000 (2023)+0.8%-1.9%
FLAT 17 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£43,000 (2014)£55,000 (2023)+2.8%-0.4%
FLAT 75 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£47,000 (2001)£64,000 (2023)+1.4%-1.3%
FLAT 15 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£35,000 (2011)£64,000 (2023)+5.2%+2.1%
FLAT 96 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£29,000 (1997)£70,000 (2023)+3.4%+0.8%
WARDENS FLAT HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£58,211 (2009)£110,000 (2022)+5.0%+2.2%
FLAT 26 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£25,000 (1998)£56,000 (2022)+3.4%+0.9%
FLAT 92 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£25,995 (1999)£48,000 (2022)+2.7%+0.2%
FLAT 19 HOMEFERN HOUSE Cobbs Place£22,000 (1995)£60,000 (2022)+3.8%+1.3%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette157100.0%£45,000£8,300 – £110,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Cobbs Place, Margate

157 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold157100.0%£45,000
Freehold00.0%
New build10.6%£63,500
Existing home15699.4%£45,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +41.1%. 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.

Section 07

Living in Cobbs Place, Margate

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.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A4350.5%
B7,6158.7%
C29,39933.7%
D33,35338.3%
E12,16514.0%
F3,1343.6%
G1,0831.2%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Thanet.

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 £45,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 29.60% 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.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Cobbs Place, Margate

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Hartsdown AcademySecondaryAcademy converter868
Cliftonville Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led845
Garlinge Primary School and NurseryPrimaryFoundation school726
Palm Bay Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter407
Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school397
Northdown Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led302
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, MargatePrimaryAcademy converter284
Drapers Mills Primary AcademyPrimaryAcademy sponsor led246
Salmestone Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led216
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Margate Rail StationRail1.2 km
Westgate-on-Sea Rail StationRail3.5 km
Broadstairs Rail StationRail3.9 km
Ramsgate Rail StationRail4.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Cobbs Place, Margate compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Cobbs Place, Margate sits below that national figure — -71.4%.

Within Margate the street ranks 454 of 455 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £132,813 (-66.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £975 per square metre, across 41 of the 157 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 £8,300 to £110,000. 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.

Cobbs Place, 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Margate house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Cobbs Place, Margate?

The median price paid in Cobbs Place, Margate across every sale on the register is £45,000. 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 Cobbs Place, Margate?

157 sales are on record for Cobbs Place, Margate, the most recent completing on 14 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Cobbs Place, Margate house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +52.4% between 2012 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +10.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Cobbs Place, Margate house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £66,000, set in 2005. 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 Cobbs Place, Margate?

£975 per square metre, from the 41 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 14 Apr 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, “Cobbs Place, 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.