One coastal town in particular is perfect for house hunters on a budgetDavid Dubas-Fisher, Cullen Willis and Sam Honey Multimedia Reporter
07:00, 10 Sep 2026
Two postcodes in the Dover area were found to be among the county’s cheapest to buy a home.(Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A port town on the Kent coast is currently the cheapest place to buy a home in the entire county, new data has revealed. Homes in the CT17 postcode area of Dover sold for an average of £228,464 each in the 12 months to the end of July 2026.
This postcode spans areas to the west of the A256 in the busy port town, including Tower Hamlets and the village of River. The ME11 postcode area in Swale meanwhile is the next cheapest place in the county to plant your roots.
Houses in the ME11 area, which covers the likes of Queenborough and Rushenden, sold for £233,871 on average in the same time period. Our survey of property prices includes every postcode area which is either fully or partially in Kent.
This means that some postcode areas are included which cross the border into neighbouring counties. The figures come from analysis of Price Paid data from the Lang Registry, which lists the sale price of every house sold in the country.
The third cheapest postcode area is CT16, also in Dover, where homes sold for an average of £258,398, followed by Ramsgate’s CT11 in fourth place with an average sell price of £268,298.
Rounding out the top five in the cheapest Kent postcodes ranking is ME4, which includes Chatham, Brompton, Luton and St Mary’s Islands where homes will set you back an average of £271,062.
You can find the average sale price for every postcode area in the country using our interactive map here:
At the other end of the scale, Riverhead near Sevenoaks recorded the highest average sale price of any postcode area in Kent which had at least 20 sales in the 12 month period. Here, houses sold for a whopping average of £873,282.
The TN3 area was the next most expensive place to buy a home in our county. Anyone house hunting in Langton Green could expect to fork out an average of £793,005 based on the latest data.
Postcodes in and around Sevenoaks were identified among the most expensive places to go property hunting in Kent.(Image: Getty Images/Moonstone Images/iStock)
Following closely behind is the TN14 area, covering multiple cosy villages such as Badgers Mount, Cudham, Halstead, and Knockholt, where homes demand an average price of £723,569.
Meanwhile, properties in the TN15 area, spanning across Sevenoaks, Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley and Otford and Kemsing, sold for an average £632,472, as Orpington homes in the BR6 postcode fetch around £626,230.
Looking beyond our county’s borders, Sunderland city centre was found to be the cheapest place to buy a home in England and Wales. Homes in the SR1 postcode region sold for an average of £69,442 in the year to the end of July.
Grimsby was the next cheapest place, with homes in the DN31 postcode selling for an average of £79,940. Additionally, the Welsh postcode of LL61 has been pinpointed as the property hotspot of the country.
The postcode covers Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest name for a town in Europe, and average house prices in the area increased by 26.3 per cent in the year to the end of July, climbing to £293,901. It’s the largest percentage increase of any area where at least 50 sales had been made in those 12 months.