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Brighton market report BN
The BN (Brighton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 542,574 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the BN postcode area (Brighton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 5,530 registered 2026 sales put the the BN postcode area (Brighton) median at £365,000, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £415,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,640 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 542,574 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BN is the postcode area centred on Brighton, taking in 30 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where BN sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What BN homes really sell for
The 2026 median for BN is £365,000, taken from 5,530 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £415,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BN
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN costs about £4,640 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN sits 28% above the national market.
A typical BN home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 5,530 |
| 2025 | £367,000 | £375,776 | 13,362 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 12,598 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 11,522 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 14,948 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 18,287 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 12,144 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 13,341 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 13,874 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 15,001 |
| 2016 | £283,500 | £396,619 | 15,935 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 16,726 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 17,434 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 15,136 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 13,158 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 12,955 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 13,009 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 12,781 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 10,678 |
| 2007 | £216,000 | £366,396 | 22,662 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 24,000 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 18,520 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 21,968 |
| 2003 | £163,000 | £300,286 | 21,756 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 25,120 |
| 2001 | £115,500 | £222,043 | 23,904 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 22,029 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 24,806 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 21,503 |
| 1997 | £63,500 | £130,226 | 22,628 |
| 1996 | £57,400 | £121,054 | 19,739 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 15,520 |
In cash terms the typical BN home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2001 (+21.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −0.5% | −2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.0% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £520,000 against £238,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, BN
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £520,000 | 1,215 | 108,828 |
| Semi-detached | £385,000 | 1,370 | 118,988 |
| Terraced | £360,000 | 1,402 | 132,902 |
| Flats | £238,000 | 1,543 | 181,856 |
Sales activity in BN
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BN recorded 9,973 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 22,495 sales a year before the financial crisis and 11,592 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of BN
The local authority for BN is Lewes, the local authority covering most of the BN area (parts fall under Brighton and Hove and Worthing, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,323 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £917 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,158 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,323 a month is £15,876 a year, which against the £365,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How BN trades
Turnover here is strong: 9,973 sales in the last twelve months of data, enough that the medians rest on a genuinely broad base and one street cannot move the figure.
BN (Brighton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN (Brighton)?
Are property prices falling in BN (Brighton)?
Is BN (Brighton) a good place to buy a house?
Will BN prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in BN now
Everything above is what homes in BN sold for. The live side of the market holds 430 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the BN median sold price.
BN registered 9,973 sales in the last twelve months; the 430 homes listed now would take about 2 weeks to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BN home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Month by month: when BN sells
March is when BN changes hands most (11.5% of the 70,717 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.5%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4,856 | 6.9% |
| February | 5,598 | 7.9% |
| March | 8,105 | 11.5% |
| April | 4,601 | 6.5% |
| May | 5,065 | 7.2% |
| June | 7,448 | 10.5% |
| July | 5,151 | 7.3% |
| August | 5,992 | 8.5% |
| September | 6,710 | 9.5% |
| October | 5,855 | 8.3% |
| November | 5,744 | 8.1% |
| December | 5,592 | 7.9% |
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £365,000 | £410,000 (+12%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £625,000 (+30%) | £880,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £299,000 | £327,000 (+9%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £500,000 (+30%) | £697,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £260,000 | £310,000 (+19%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £494,500 (+39%) | £688,750 (+39%) |
| Flat | £195,000 | £260,000 (+33%) | £350,000 (+35%) | £450,000 (+29%) | £585,000 (+30%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every BN district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| BN6 Hassocks, Albourne | £512,500 | +7% | 134 |
| BN5 Henfield, Blackstone | £475,300 | -2% | 46 |
| BN7 Lewes, Cooksbridge | £474,500 | +2% | 165 |
| BN45 Poynings, Pyecombe | £465,000 | -36% | 3 |
| BN8 Barcombe, Barcombe Cross | £438,000 | -3% | 96 |
| BN1 Brighton, Coldean | £435,000 | +5% | 463 |
| BN42 Southwick | £435,000 | +12% | 53 |
| BN3 Hove, Aldrington | £431,500 | +5% | 556 |
| BN2 Brighton, Bevendean | £430,000 | +8% | 503 |
| BN44 Steyning, Ashurst | £425,000 | -2% | 74 |
| BN43 Shoreham-by-Sea | £418,500 | +3% | 143 |
| BN12 Worthing, Ferring | £410,000 | +6% | 168 |
| BN14 Worthing, Broadwater | £395,000 | +8% | 169 |
| BN41 Fishersgate, Portslade | £381,000 | +12% | 125 |
| BN18 Arundel, Amberley | £375,000 | -2% | 113 |
| BN16 Angmering, East Preston | £374,000 | +1% | 259 |
| BN20 Eastbourne, Beachy Head | £372,500 | +5% | 164 |
| BN25 Seaford, Bishopstone | £370,000 | +0% | 195 |
| BN15 Lancing, Coombes | £365,000 | +14% | 197 |
| BN24 Pevensey, Beachlands | £355,000 | +8% | 86 |
| BN10 Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs | £345,000 | +5% | 156 |
| BN13 Worthing, Clapham | £345,000 | +4% | 217 |
| BN9 Newhaven, Denton | £307,500 | +15% | 81 |
| BN26 Polegate, Alciston | £305,000 | -6% | 98 |
| BN27 Hailsham, Amberstone | £300,000 | -3% | 239 |
| BN22 Eastbourne, Hampden Park | £286,000 | +4% | 190 |
| BN17 Littlehampton, Climping | £285,000 | +2% | 216 |
| BN23 Eastbourne, Friday Street | £280,000 | +0% | 218 |
| BN11 Worthing | £268,500 | -5% | 236 |
| BN21 Eastbourne, Old Town | £220,000 | -6% | 167 |
Selling in BN? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.