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Coldean market report BN1 3, Brighton
The BN1 3 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,674 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN1 3 (Brighton) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 2026 median for BN1 3 (Brighton) is £335,000, from 73 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £438,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,080 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 9,674 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like BN1 3 is a single group of streets within BN1 (Brighton), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BN1 3 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.
BN1 3 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for BN1 3 is £335,000, taken from 73 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £438,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in BN1 3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN1 3 sales average about £6,080 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN1 3 18% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BN1 3 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 201 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 164 |
| 2023 | £372,500 | £409,287 | 166 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 219 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 299 |
| 2020 | £343,800 | £446,088 | 164 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 175 |
| 2018 | £321,800 | £428,965 | 168 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 216 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 235 |
| 2015 | £284,000 | £401,292 | 273 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 315 |
| 2013 | £248,000 | £356,847 | 265 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 215 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 223 |
| 2010 | £227,200 | £356,308 | 236 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 188 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 171 |
| 2007 | £219,800 | £372,842 | 416 |
| 2006 | £184,000 | £319,400 | 416 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 340 |
| 2004 | £162,200 | £294,587 | 450 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 435 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 478 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 463 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 513 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 519 |
| 1998 | £54,600 | £110,214 | 512 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 481 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 373 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 312 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 3 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 306%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 3 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 2000 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). 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 years (since 2025) | −4.3% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in BN1 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 73 BN1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 439 sales a year before the financial crisis and 165 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.
Rents around BN1 3
The local authority for BN1 3 is Brighton and Hove, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,816 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,193 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,495 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Brighton and Hove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, which against the £335,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. 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.
What kind of market BN1 3 is
Against the BN1 district median, BN1 3 sits 24% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about BN1 3 (Coldean)
How much did a house sell for in BN1 3 (Coldean)?
Are property prices falling in BN1 3 (Coldean)?
Is BN1 3 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BN1 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
BN1's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 134 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN1 district, not just BN1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BN area. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BN area, five years
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 2 | £287,500 | 20 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BN1 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BN1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.