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Coldean market report BN1 5, Brighton
The BN1 5 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,489 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN1 5 (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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 57 registered 2026 sales put the BN1 5 (Brighton) median at £521,700, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £533,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,680 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,489 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BN1 5 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 5 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 BN1 5 homes really sell for
The BN1 5 median stands at £521,700 for 2026, built from 57 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £533,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BN1 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN1 5 costs about £5,680 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN1 5 trades 83% above the country as a whole.
A typical BN1 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £521,700 | £521,700 | 57 |
| 2025 | £552,000 | £565,200 | 179 |
| 2024 | £594,900 | £632,501 | 160 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 127 |
| 2022 | £540,000 | £633,212 | 171 |
| 2021 | £582,500 | £737,520 | 260 |
| 2020 | £550,000 | £713,636 | 158 |
| 2019 | £460,000 | £602,950 | 169 |
| 2018 | £475,000 | £633,184 | 170 |
| 2017 | £495,000 | £675,130 | 199 |
| 2016 | £412,500 | £577,092 | 196 |
| 2015 | £427,500 | £604,058 | 222 |
| 2014 | £370,000 | £524,910 | 245 |
| 2013 | £327,500 | £471,240 | 213 |
| 2012 | £322,500 | £474,680 | 188 |
| 2011 | £309,000 | £466,471 | 197 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 191 |
| 2009 | £297,500 | £478,234 | 160 |
| 2008 | £305,800 | £501,271 | 154 |
| 2007 | £278,000 | £471,565 | 309 |
| 2006 | £255,000 | £442,647 | 343 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 274 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 321 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 306 |
| 2002 | £183,100 | £344,501 | 367 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 312 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 311 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 389 |
| 1998 | £86,100 | £173,799 | 306 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 340 |
| 1996 | £74,600 | £157,328 | 278 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 217 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 5 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £521,700 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 253%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 29% 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 5 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 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−7.3%). 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) | −5.5% | −7.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.2% | −6.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN1 5
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 57 BN1 5 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 318 sales a year before the financial crisis and 139 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 shape of the BN1 5 market
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN1 5 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. Against the BN1 district median, BN1 5 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around BN1 5
For renting purposes BN1 5 sits in Brighton and Hove. The ONS average private rent there is £1,816 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £521,700 median sold price, £1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about BN1 5 (Coldean)
How much did a house sell for in BN1 5 (Coldean)?
Are property prices falling in BN1 5 (Coldean)?
Is BN1 5 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BN1 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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 is for sale in BN1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 134 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN1 district, not just BN1 5: 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.
"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 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BN area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BN1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN1 1 | £465,000 | 5 |
| BN1 2 | £287,500 | 20 |
| BN1 3 | £335,000 | 73 |
| BN1 4 | £360,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling a home in BN1 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 5 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 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN1 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN1 5 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.
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.