Buy-to-let in Folkestone and Hythe

Folkestone and Hythe in figures

Gross rental yield

4.6% to 5.2%

By kind of home, across Folkestone and Hythe

Entry price, across its towns

£265,000 to £315,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+0.1%

UK House Price Index, across Folkestone and Hythe

Price move, 10 years

+39.3%

UK House Price Index, across Folkestone and Hythe

Population

112,163

Folkestone and Hythe, +2.4% growth

• Terraced houses across Folkestone and Hythe let for £1,200/mo against a median sale of £280,000 there: 5.2% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £1,178/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Folkestone and Hythe rose 0.1% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +39% over ten years (Folkestone and Hythe)
• Employee jobs −8% 2015 to 2024 (Folkestone and Hythe)
• £16,600 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £266,000 buy-to-let
• 1 regeneration award (Folkestone and Hythe)
• 326 homes added across Folkestone and Hythe
• Band D £2,539 (Folkestone and Hythe)
• 1.9% long-term empty across Folkestone and Hythe
• +17% five-year forecast for South East as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Folkestone and Hythe report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Folkestone and Hythe moved +39.3% over ten years on the UK House Price Index.

Employee jobs across Folkestone and Hythe moved −7.7% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

47% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Folkestone's postcode districts are below band C (26,243 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £266,000 pays £16,600 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, South East) is a regional figure for South East as a whole, not a forecast for Folkestone and Hythe, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Folkestone and Hythe

Each yield is Folkestone and Hythe's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Folkestone and Hythe as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Folkestone and Hythe report

The full report measures Folkestone and Hythe from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Folkestone and Hythe report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Folkestone and Hythe against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.