Surrey Road, Margate house prices are built from 158 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 23 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £85,750. Across the 11 years from 2007 to 2018 the median moved -53.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -64.6%.
Median price paid
£85,750
Change in cash, 2007–2018
-53.8%
Change in real terms
-64.6%
Median per m²
£1,493
HM Land Registry158 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Surrey Road, Margate prices moved
The chart tracks the median Surrey Road, Margate house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2018. 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 | £32,475 | £72,110 |
| 2000s | 6 | £67,000 | £122,054 |
| 2010s | 3 | £84,000 | £118,440 |
The highest yearly median on record for Surrey Road, Margate is £184,995 in 2007; the lowest is £23,000 in 1996. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £23,000 to £85,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £49,892, so the real change over the whole record is +128.4% — about +3.83% 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: -53.8% in cash against -64.6% 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.
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 1 16 | 23 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| Maisonette 2 46 | 4 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| Flat 4 16 | 5 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Flat 1 16 | 24 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £170,630 |
| 47 | 4 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £512,000 | £538,746 |
| Flat 5 34 – 36 | 20 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| Flat 6 23 | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £154,506 |
| Flat 6 14 | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £117,500 | £126,954 |
| Flat 1, 23 | 31 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £94,000 | £108,907 |
| Flat 2 23 | 11 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £98,480 |
| 38 – 40 | 23 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £107,392 |
| 13 | 16 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| Flat 5 8 | 26 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £98,548 |
| 52 | 5 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 45 | 18 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £382,500 | £500,301 |
| Flat 2 38 – 40 | 11 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £108,562 |
| 23 | 8 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £107,908 |
| Flat 2 23 | 29 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £78,000 | £103,951 |
| Flat 6 34 – 36 | 1 Oct 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £85,500 | £113,946 |
| 49 | 25 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £400,000 | £533,081 |
| Flat 11 12 | 15 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £113,280 |
| Flat 6 23 | 11 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £159,924 |
| 21 | 4 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £341,000 | £454,452 |
| 23 | 13 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £60,000 | £79,962 |
| Flat 8, 23 | 21 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £163,320 |
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 Surrey Road, Margate values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 1 16 Surrey Road | £125,000 (2006) | £245,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| MAISONETTE 2 46 Surrey Road | £57,000 (2003) | £125,000 (2025) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 4 16 Surrey Road | £65,000 (1996) | £160,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 47 Surrey Road | £118,550 (2013) | £512,000 (2024) | +14.2% | +10.9% |
| FLAT 5 34 – 36 Surrey Road | £96,000 (2006) | £135,000 (2023) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 6 14 Surrey Road | £12,000 (2001) | £117,500 (2023) | +10.9% | +8.0% |
| FLAT 6 23 Surrey Road | £120,000 (2018) | £143,000 (2023) | +3.6% | -0.7% |
| FLAT 1, 23 Surrey Road | £38,000 (2015) | £94,000 (2022) | +13.8% | +10.7% |
| FLAT 2 23 Surrey Road | £78,000 (2018) | £85,000 (2022) | +2.2% | -1.3% |
| 38 – 40 Surrey Road | £59,000 (2003) | £85,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| 13 Surrey Road | £59,500 (1996) | £440,000 (2021) | +8.3% | +6.0% |
| 52 Surrey Road | £87,000 (2001) | £360,000 (2021) | +7.4% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Surrey Road, Margate 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 | 88 | 55.7% | £71,000 | £10,000 – £245,000 |
| Terraced | 48 | 30.4% | £185,000 | £25,000 – £520,000 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 13.9% | £220,000 | £22,000 – £440,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Surrey Road, Margate
91 of the sales on record are leasehold and 67 freehold — 57.6% 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 £75,000 and the median freehold sale £185,500 — a gap of +147.3%. 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 | 91 | 57.6% | £75,000 |
| Freehold | 67 | 42.4% | £185,500 |
| New build | 11 | 7.0% | £85,000 |
| Existing home | 147 | 93.0% | £87,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -2.3%. 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 29 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 Surrey Road, 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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 435 | 0.5% |
| B | 7,615 | 8.7% |
| C | 29,399 | 33.7% |
| D | 33,353 | 38.3% |
| E | 12,165 | 14.0% |
| F | 3,134 | 3.6% |
| G | 1,083 | 1.2% |
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 £85,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.53% 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 Surrey Road, 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartsdown Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 868 |
| Cliftonville Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 845 |
| Garlinge Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Foundation school | 726 |
| Palm Bay Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 407 |
| Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 397 |
| Northdown Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 302 |
| St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate | Primary | Academy converter | 284 |
| Drapers Mills Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 246 |
| Salmestone Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 216 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Margate Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Westgate-on-Sea Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Broadstairs Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Ramsgate Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
Section 09
How Surrey Road, Margate compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Surrey Road, Margate sits below that national figure — -45.6%.
Within Margate the street ranks 418 of 455 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £132,813 (-35.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,493 per square metre, across 14 of the 158 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 £10,000 to £520,000. 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.
Surrey Road, 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
- Harold Road£99,000 median
- Canterbury Road£130,000 median
- Northdown Road£105,750 median
- All Saints Avenue£64,750 median
- Gordon Road£77,000 median
- Ramsgate Road£130,000 median
- High Street£117,000 median
- Norfolk Road£117,500 median
- Westbrook Avenue£220,000 median
- Athelstan Road£75,000 median
- Trinity Square£126,670 median
- Godwin Road£90,000 median
- Northdown Park Road£185,000 median
- Northumberland Avenue£128,250 median
- Grosvenor Place£104,500 median
- Milton Avenue£90,035 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 23 Surrey Road6 sales
- FLAT 11, 12 Surrey Road5 sales
- 37 Surrey Road5 sales
- FLAT 4, 16 Surrey Road4 sales
- 45 Surrey Road4 sales
- FLAT 7, 12 Surrey Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, 14 Surrey Road4 sales
- 25 Surrey Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 16 Surrey Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, 14 Surrey Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 23 Surrey Road3 sales
- 13 Surrey Road3 sales
- 21 Surrey Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, SANDBACH HOUSE Surrey Road3 sales
- 35 Surrey Road3 sales
- 29 Surrey Road3 sales
- 24 Surrey Road3 sales
- 8 Surrey Road3 sales
- 19 Surrey Road3 sales
- MAISONETTE 2, 46 Surrey Road2 sales
- 47 Surrey Road2 sales
- FLAT 5, 34 – 36 Surrey Road2 sales
- FLAT 6, 23 Surrey Road2 sales
- FLAT 2, 23 Surrey Road2 sales
Back to Margate house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Surrey Road, Margate?
The median price paid in Surrey Road, Margate across every sale on the register is £85,750. 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 Surrey Road, Margate?
158 sales are on record for Surrey Road, Margate, the most recent completing on 23 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Surrey Road, Margate house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -53.8% between 2007 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -64.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Surrey Road, Margate house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £184,995, set in 2007. 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 Surrey Road, Margate?
£1,493 per square metre, from the 14 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 23 Mar 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, “Surrey Road, 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.