That is the middle of 709 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.1 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
A quarter of Hythe’s sales are semi-detached houses
709 homes sold in three years: 177 detached houses, 182 semi-detached houses, 174 terraced houses and 176 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£600K
median sale · 177 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£450K–£749K
Last 12 months
£581K56 sold
Semi-detached houses£360K
median sale · 182 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£456K
Last 12 months
£373K50 sold
Terraced houses£310K
median sale · 174 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£380K
Last 12 months
£323K62 sold
Flats and maisonettes£234K
median sale · 176 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£277K
Last 12 months
£195K44 sold
New build
£258K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 26% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses26%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes25%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Hythe’s homes sold for between £263K and £500K
One sale in ten was under £190K and one in ten over £710K. 20% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £345,000, sits in the £300–400K band
709 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £57,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in the last 12 months (£300,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
212 sales in the last 12 months, against 426 in 2006, the busiest year, and 226 in 2011. Sales fell by 39% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 57% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hythe costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hythe, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£99K
£155K
£293K
£317K
£400K
£490K
£581K
Semi-detached houses
£57K
£83K
£185K
£200K
£245K
£305K
£373K
Terraced houses
£49K
£81K
£163K
£185K
£210K
£265K
£323K
Flats and maisonettes
£51K
£70K
£148K
£180K
£183K
£212K
£195K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 1% of sales in the last 12 months, after 19% in 2016
703 new homes have been sold in Hythe since 1995; the share peaked at 19% in 2016.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £257,995
against £350,000 for a home sold on, 26% less, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
26% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.1% sold leasehold in Hythe. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Seabrook Road is Hythe’s busiest street, with 43 sales in three years
47 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 15 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Seabrook Road
CT21
43
£420,000
Mixed
2
Bartholomew Street
CT21
23
£120,000
Mostly flats
3
Stade Street
CT21
20
£252,000
Mostly flats
4
Dearman Crescent
CT21
20
£248,997
Mostly flats · new builds
5
North Road
CT21
14
£422,500
Mixed
6
Shepherds Walk
CT21
14
£327,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Cliff Road
CT21
13
£735,000
Mostly detached houses
8
South Road
CT21
13
£322,500
Mostly flats
9
Dymchurch Road
CT21
13
£284,000
Mixed
10
Marine Parade
CT21
13
£275,000
Mostly flats
11
Hillside Street
CT21
11
£250,000
Mixed
12
Romney Way
CT21
11
£248,000
Mixed
13
East Street
CT21
11
£170,000
Mostly flats
14
Blythe Court
CT21
11
£100,000
Mostly flats
15
Horn Street
CT21
10
£301,250
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Brockhill Road: £888,750
Hythe median£345K
Brockhill Road£889K
Cliff Road£735K
Naildown Road£675K
Moncrieff Gardens£640K
Harpswood Lane£521K
Cheapest streets
Blythe Court: £100,000
Hythe median£345K
Blythe Court£100K
Bartholomew Street£120K
East Street£170K
Fishermans Beach£205K
Victoria Avenue£233K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Kent
Hythe is the 47th most expensive of 87 towns in Kent
Hythe is in the middle of Kent’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Hythe
What is the average house price in Hythe?
The median home in Hythe sold for £345,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 709 standard sales (£350,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £600,000, semi-detached houses £360,000, terraced houses £310,000 and flats and maisonettes £233,870.
Are house prices going up in Hythe?
The median was £360,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£341,750), and £350,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Hythe each year?
212 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 318 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Hythe?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Brockhill Road (CT21, £888,750), Cliff Road (CT21, £735,000) and Naildown Road (CT21, £675,000).
How much does a new build cost in Hythe?
New homes sold for a median £257,995 over three years, against £350,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 3.4% of sales.
Is Hythe expensive for Kent?
Hythe is the 46th most expensive of 87 towns of 2,500 or more in Kent by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.