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Coldean market report BN1 4, Brighton
The standing BN1 4 (Coldean) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,938 registered sales in BN1 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BN1 4 (Brighton) is £360,000, from 35 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £430,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,780 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,938 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BN1 4 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 4 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.
The going rate for a home in BN1 4
35 sales were registered in BN1 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £360,000. The mean works out at £430,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BN1 4
The last five years of sales put BN1 4 at roughly £5,780 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN1 4 trades 26% above the country as a whole.
A typical BN1 4 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 121 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 105 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 102 |
| 2022 | £389,000 | £456,147 | 151 |
| 2021 | £380,000 | £481,129 | 169 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 73 |
| 2019 | £333,800 | £437,532 | 120 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 120 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 145 |
| 2016 | £321,700 | £450,061 | 151 |
| 2015 | £297,500 | £420,368 | 231 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 204 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 134 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 131 |
| 2011 | £249,200 | £376,196 | 130 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 187 |
| 2009 | £200,200 | £321,823 | 149 |
| 2008 | £269,000 | £440,948 | 144 |
| 2007 | £239,200 | £405,750 | 318 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 282 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 223 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 243 |
| 2003 | £169,500 | £312,260 | 318 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 294 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 253 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 283 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 284 |
| 1998 | £57,100 | £115,260 | 245 |
| 1997 | £51,100 | £104,796 | 214 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 225 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 154 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 4 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 245%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 4 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 2003 (+33.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.6%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.1% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in BN1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 277 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of BN1 4
The local authority for BN1 4 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.
£1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, which against the £360,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. 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.
The shape of the BN1 4 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN1 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within BN1, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BN1 4 (Coldean)
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Where do BN1 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in BN1 right now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. 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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BN1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN1 1 | £465,000 | 5 |
| BN1 2 | £287,500 | 20 |
| BN1 3 | £335,000 | 73 |
| 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 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN1 4.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN1 4 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.
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.