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Coldean market report BN1 2, Brighton
The BN1 2 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,210 registered sales in BN1 2 (Brighton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BN1 2 (Brighton) sold for £287,500 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £293,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,210 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN1 (Brighton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BN1 2 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.
Today's BN1 2 prices, from the sold record
20 sales were registered in BN1 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £287,500. The mean works out at £293,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BN1 2
A square metre of BN1 2 home has cost about £5,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BN1 2 1% above the national figure.
BN1 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £287,500 | £287,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 71 |
| 2024 | £340,000 | £361,490 | 61 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 63 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 95 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 134 |
| 2020 | £331,200 | £429,739 | 58 |
| 2019 | £272,500 | £357,182 | 68 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 89 |
| 2017 | £308,000 | £420,081 | 73 |
| 2016 | £271,500 | £379,831 | 86 |
| 2015 | £252,000 | £356,076 | 145 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 160 |
| 2013 | £212,500 | £305,766 | 108 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 93 |
| 2011 | £221,800 | £334,833 | 102 |
| 2010 | £207,000 | £324,629 | 77 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 92 |
| 2008 | £208,000 | £340,956 | 82 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 183 |
| 2006 | £188,400 | £327,038 | 235 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 147 |
| 2004 | £149,000 | £270,613 | 183 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 209 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 201 |
| 2001 | £97,000 | £186,478 | 189 |
| 2000 | £79,500 | £156,019 | 228 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 253 |
| 1998 | £45,500 | £91,845 | 207 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 197 |
| 1996 | £34,600 | £72,970 | 164 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 2 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £287,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 267%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 37% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 2 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 1999 (+42.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−19.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BN1 2
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BN1 2 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 197 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 BN1 2
The local authority for BN1 2 is Brighton and Hove, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,816 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,193 a month here against £2,495 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Brighton and Hove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £287,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,816 a month (£21,792 a year) works out at a 7.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How BN1 2 trades
This is a thin market: 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the BN1 district median, BN1 2 sits 35% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
BN1 2 (Coldean): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN1 2 (Coldean)?
Are property prices falling in BN1 2 (Coldean)?
Is BN1 2 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BN1 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BN1 today
The live side of the market holds 134 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN1 district, not just BN1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BN1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £390,000 | £519,972 (+33%) | £810,000 (+56%) | £1,170,000 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £305,000 | £345,000 (+13%) | £420,500 (+22%) | £580,000 (+38%) | £935,000 (+61%) |
| Terraced | £280,000 | £325,000 (+16%) | £400,000 (+23%) | £600,000 (+50%) | £835,000 (+39%) |
| Flat | £207,000 | £275,000 (+33%) | £420,000 (+53%) | £645,000 (+54%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BN1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN1 1 | £465,000 | 5 |
| BN1 3 | £335,000 | 73 |
| BN1 4 | £360,000 | 35 |
| BN1 5 | £521,700 | 57 |
| BN1 6 | £619,000 | 89 |
| BN1 7 | £455,000 | 29 |
| BN1 8 | £500,000 | 57 |
| BN1 9 | £345,000 | 18 |
Zoom out to the full BN1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BN1 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN1 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN1 2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.