Station Road, Whitstable house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 10 years from 2002 to 2012 the median moved +103.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +57.3%.
Median price paid
£155,000
Change in cash, 2002–2012
+103.2%
Change in real terms
+57.3%
Median per m²
£2,969
HM Land Registry108 sales23 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026
Section 01
How Station Road, Whitstable prices moved
The chart tracks the median Station Road, Whitstable house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2012. 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 | 1 | £52,500 | £116,575 |
| 2000s | 6 | £140,000 | £255,039 |
| 2010s | 1 | £175,500 | £247,455 |
The highest yearly median on record for Station Road, Whitstable is £175,500 in 2012; the lowest is £52,500 in 1999. Across the full 14-year record the cash median has moved from £52,500 to £175,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,973, so the real change over the whole record is +145.0% — about +7.14% 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: +103.2% in cash against +57.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £143,000 |
| 86 | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 32 | 20 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £439,000 | £448,543 |
| 83 | 19 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 92 | 14 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £352,500 | £360,163 |
| 42b | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 40 | 1 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 44 | 30 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £355,000 | £373,545 |
| 51 | 5 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £448,391 |
| 11 | 3 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £383,563 |
| 37 | 28 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £397,500 | £460,538 |
| 81 | 31 May 2022 | Terraced | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 9 | 23 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 51 | 20 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £330,165 |
| 15 | 11 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £433,747 |
| 71 | 3 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £257,500 | £333,402 |
| 31 | 28 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 66 | 13 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £529,731 |
| 64 | 1 Feb 2019 | Semi-detached | £389,995 | £510,105 |
| 52 | 12 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £249,000 | £331,843 |
| 56 | 11 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £373,157 |
| 44 | 23 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £275,000 | £366,493 |
| 9 | 15 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £322,000 | £438,243 |
| 42c | 20 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £279,000 | £379,720 |
| 42b | 25 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £290,000 | £394,691 |
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 Station Road, Whitstable values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A Station Road | £145,000 (2007) | £143,000 (2026) | -0.1% | -2.9% |
| 86 Station Road | £221,000 (2013) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 32 Station Road | £160,000 (2012) | £439,000 (2025) | +8.1% | +5.0% |
| 83 Station Road | £82,500 (2002) | £250,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 92 Station Road | £249,995 (2013) | £352,500 (2025) | +2.9% | -0.1% |
| 42B Station Road | £140,000 (2006) | £340,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| 40 Station Road | £141,000 (2005) | £350,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 44 Station Road | £77,000 (2001) | £355,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
| 51 Station Road | £255,000 (2020) | £415,000 (2023) | +17.6% | +10.7% |
| 37 Station Road | £39,000 (1997) | £397,500 (2022) | +9.7% | +7.1% |
| 81 Station Road | £116,500 (2006) | £320,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 9 Station Road | £168,000 (2006) | £350,000 (2021) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Station Road, Whitstable 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 67 | 62.0% | £148,000 | £39,000 – £439,000 |
| Semi-detached | 35 | 32.4% | £189,995 | £41,995 – £415,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 3.7% | £143,000 | £140,000 – £160,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 1.9% | £98,000 | £98,000 – £125,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Station Road, Whitstable
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 104 freehold — 3.7% 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 £144,000 and the median freehold sale £155,250 — a gap of +7.8%. 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 | 4 | 3.7% | £144,000 |
| Freehold | 104 | 96.3% | £155,250 |
| New build | 3 | 2.8% | £237,500 |
| Existing home | 105 | 97.2% | £155,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +53.2%. 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 5 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 Station Road, Whitstable
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Canterbury, 45.7% of 79,332 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 677 | 0.9% |
| B | 9,512 | 12.0% |
| C | 26,095 | 32.9% |
| D | 29,426 | 37.1% |
| E | 10,512 | 13.3% |
| F | 2,355 | 3.0% |
| G | 755 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Canterbury at £1,279 a month as of Jun 2026 — £875 for a one-bedroom home and £1,366 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £155,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.90% 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 CT5, 186 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 1 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 47 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 157,432 residents the 2021 census counted in Canterbury, that is 1.18 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 Station Road, Whitstable
The 2021 census counted 157,432 residents in Canterbury across 63,792 households. 65.7% of those households own their home and 34.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a CT5 postcode: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Whitstable School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,112 |
| Joy Lane Primary Foundation School | Primary | Foundation school | 621 |
| Swalecliffe Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 492 |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable | Primary | Academy converter | 301 |
| Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 226 |
| St Alphege Church of England Infant School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 206 |
| Whitstable Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 202 |
| Westmeads Community Infant School | Primary | Community school | 183 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Whitstable Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Herne Bay Rail Station | Rail | 5.9 km |
| Sturry Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
| Canterbury East Rail Station | Rail | 9.2 km |
Section 09
How Station Road, Whitstable compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Station Road, Whitstable sits below that national figure — -1.6%.
Within Whitstable the street ranks 369 of 420 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £210,000 (-26.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,969 per square metre, across 23 of the 108 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 £39,000 to £439,000. 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.
Station Road, Whitstable sits in Canterbury, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Canterbury at 9.4 times median local earnings of £36,558 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
- Tankerton Road£150,000 median
- Cromwell Road£198,000 median
- Olympia Way£170,500 median
- Regent Street£185,000 median
- Albert Street£150,495 median
- Island Wall£315,000 median
- Northwood Road£195,995 median
- Canterbury Road£150,000 median
- Faversham Road£215,000 median
- Sydenham Street£179,498 median
- Nelson Road£205,000 median
- Graystone Road£269,950 median
- Joy Lane£371,000 median
- Clare Road£191,500 median
- St Johns Road£160,500 median
- Marine Parade£350,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 42B Station Road4 sales
- 37 Station Road4 sales
- 42C Station Road4 sales
- 58 Station Road4 sales
- 42 Station Road4 sales
- 54 Station Road4 sales
- 42A Station Road4 sales
- 27 Station Road4 sales
- 44 Station Road3 sales
- 81 Station Road3 sales
- 9 Station Road3 sales
- 31 Station Road3 sales
- 66 Station Road3 sales
- 52 Station Road3 sales
- 56 Station Road3 sales
- 42D Station Road3 sales
- 60 Station Road3 sales
- 1A Station Road2 sales
- 86 Station Road2 sales
- 32 Station Road2 sales
- 83 Station Road2 sales
- 92 Station Road2 sales
- 40 Station Road2 sales
- 51 Station Road2 sales
Back to Whitstable house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Station Road, Whitstable?
The median price paid in Station Road, Whitstable across every sale on the register is £155,000. 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 Station Road, Whitstable?
108 sales are on record for Station Road, Whitstable, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Station Road, Whitstable house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +103.2% between 2002 and 2012. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +57.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Station Road, Whitstable house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £175,500, set in 2012. 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 Station Road, Whitstable?
£2,969 per square metre, from the 23 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 15 May 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, “Station Road, Whitstable 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.