Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea house prices are built from 131 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 29 May 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £94,000. Across the 14 years from 2007 to 2021 the median moved +67.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.8%.
Median price paid
£94,000
Change in cash, 2007–2021
+67.6%
Change in real terms
+21.8%
Median per m²
£1,500
HM Land Registry131 sales29 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2025
Section 01
How Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea prices moved
The chart tracks the median Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2021. 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 | 2 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 5 | £92,498 | £168,503 |
| 2010s | 3 | £142,500 | £200,925 |
| 2020s | 1 | £155,000 | £158,370 |
The highest yearly median on record for Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea is £155,000 in 2021; the lowest is £37,500 in 2000. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £65,000 to £155,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £134,779, so the real change over the whole record is +45.3% — about +1.64% 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: +67.6% in cash against +21.8% 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 3 17 | 29 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £167,000 | £170,630 |
| 9 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| Flat 19 Fodbury Court | 26 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £112,500 | £118,377 |
| 31 | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| Flat 2 37 | 10 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £189,080 |
| Flat 27 Fodbury Court | 31 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £170,713 |
| Flat 4, 17 | 5 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| Flat 3 Ellerslie Court, 39 – 41 | 15 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| Flat 2 Portland House, 21 | 25 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £136,000 | £171,828 |
| Flat 4 Fodbury Court | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £151,613 |
| Flat 1 15 | 23 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £186,000 | £235,000 |
| 1 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 3 | 31 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| Flat 1 Fodbury Court | 30 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £134,995 | £174,787 |
| Flat 7 Fodbury Court | 3 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £82,500 | £106,818 |
| Flat 3 15 | 14 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £160,881 |
| Flat 27 | 6 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £147,500 | £192,927 |
| Flat 1 37 | 10 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £196,197 |
| 5 | 29 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £296,000 | £387,161 |
| Flat 27 Fodbury Court | 24 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £83,000 | £108,562 |
| Flat 12 Fodbury Court | 31 Oct 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £122,000 | £162,590 |
| Flat 3 Portland House, 21 | 21 Sep 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| Flat 18 Fodbury Court | 20 Jul 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £116,000 | £154,594 |
| Flat 7 Fodbury Court | 23 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £85,500 | £113,946 |
| Flat 2 Fodbury Court | 9 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £95,250 | £129,636 |
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 Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 3 17 Ethelbert Square | £85,000 (2012) | £167,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 9 Ethelbert Square | £72,000 (1999) | £320,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| FLAT 19 FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square | £16,250 (1999) | £112,500 (2024) | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 31 Ethelbert Square | £65,000 (1998) | £280,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| FLAT 2 37 Ethelbert Square | £27,000 (2000) | £175,000 (2023) | +8.5% | +5.6% |
| FLAT 27 FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square | £89,995 (2007) | £158,000 (2023) | +3.6% | +0.5% |
| FLAT 4, 17 Ethelbert Square | £105,000 (2012) | £230,000 (2022) | +8.2% | +5.4% |
| FLAT 3 ELLERSLIE COURT, 39 – 41 Ethelbert Square | £84,950 (2004) | £155,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 2 PORTLAND HOUSE, 21 Ethelbert Square | £23,500 (1995) | £136,000 (2021) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| FLAT 1 15 Ethelbert Square | £130,000 (2005) | £186,000 (2021) | +2.3% | 0.0% |
| 3 Ethelbert Square | £102,500 (2001) | £200,000 (2020) | +3.6% | +1.3% |
| FLAT 1 FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square | £10,000 (1998) | £134,995 (2020) | +12.6% | +10.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea 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 | 93 | 71.0% | £88,500 | £10,000 – £230,000 |
| Terraced | 24 | 18.3% | £145,000 | £40,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 6.1% | £65,000 | £65,000 – £320,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 4.6% | £180,000 | £60,000 – £285,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea
92 of the sales on record are leasehold and 39 freehold — 70.2% 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 £165,000 — a gap of +87.5%. 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 | 92 | 70.2% | £88,000 |
| Freehold | 39 | 29.8% | £165,000 |
| New build | 3 | 2.3% | £99,000 |
| Existing home | 128 | 97.7% | £93,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +6.2%. 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 19 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 09
How Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea sits below that national figure — -40.3%.
Within Westgate-on-sea the street ranks 93 of 98 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £142,950 (-34.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,500 per square metre, across 29 of the 131 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 £350,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Sea Road£190,000 median
- Westgate Bay Avenue£117,250 median
- Linksfield Road£145,000 median
- Rowena Road£110,000 median
- Belmont Road£145,000 median
- Adrian Square£92,250 median
- Canterbury Road£149,973 median
- Victoria Avenue£160,000 median
- St Mildreds Road£164,500 median
- Beach Road£125,500 median
- Cuthbert Road£107,000 median
- Minster Road£183,500 median
- Roxburgh Road£121,750 median
- St Augustines Park£240,000 median
- The Grove£130,950 median
- Sussex Gardens£149,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 17 Ethelbert Square6 sales
- FLAT 1, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square5 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 27 Ethelbert Square5 sales
- FLAT 1, PORTLAND HOUSE, 21 Ethelbert Square5 sales
- FLAT 4, 15 Ethelbert Square5 sales
- FLAT 3, ELLERSLIE COURT, 39 – 41 Ethelbert Square4 sales
- FLAT 7, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square4 sales
- FLAT 12, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square4 sales
- 45 Ethelbert Square4 sales
- FLAT 3, 17 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- 31 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 27, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 3, 15 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT, 27 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- 5 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 18, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 2, ELLERSLIE COURT 39-41 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 13, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square3 sales
- 11 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 6, ELLERSLIE COURT 39-41 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 6, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square3 sales
- 29 Ethelbert Square3 sales
- FLAT 14, FODBURY COURT Ethelbert Square3 sales
- 9 Ethelbert Square2 sales
Back to Westgate-on-sea house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea?
The median price paid in Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea across every sale on the register is £94,000. 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 Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea?
131 sales are on record for Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea, the most recent completing on 29 May 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +67.6% between 2007 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £155,000, set in 2021. 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 Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea?
£1,500 per square metre, from the 29 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 29 May 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, “Ethelbert Square, Westgate-on-sea 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.