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Coldean market report BN1 6, Brighton
The standing BN1 6 (Coldean) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 11,906 registered sales in BN1 6 (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 middle 2026 sale in BN1 6 (Brighton) came in at £619,000, out of 89 registered, up 41% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £605,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,730 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 11,906 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN1 6 is one sector of BN1 (Brighton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BN1 6 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 6 sold prices: where the market stands
The BN1 6 median stands at £619,000 for 2026, built from 89 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £605,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BN1 6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN1 6 sales average about £5,730 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN1 6 runs 117% above it.
BN1 6'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 | £619,000 | £619,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £517,500 | £529,875 | 256 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 280 |
| 2023 | £482,500 | £530,150 | 246 |
| 2022 | £476,500 | £558,751 | 312 |
| 2021 | £438,500 | £555,198 | 382 |
| 2020 | £455,000 | £590,372 | 236 |
| 2019 | £410,000 | £537,412 | 265 |
| 2018 | £372,500 | £496,550 | 251 |
| 2017 | £383,500 | £523,056 | 318 |
| 2016 | £327,500 | £458,176 | 334 |
| 2015 | £310,100 | £438,171 | 367 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 406 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 359 |
| 2012 | £263,400 | £387,692 | 270 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 300 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 317 |
| 2009 | £227,000 | £364,904 | 283 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 238 |
| 2007 | £232,500 | £394,385 | 461 |
| 2006 | £235,000 | £407,930 | 566 |
| 2005 | £218,500 | £388,842 | 425 |
| 2004 | £176,000 | £319,650 | 481 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 425 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 558 |
| 2001 | £127,700 | £245,497 | 560 |
| 2000 | £95,500 | £187,419 | 498 |
| 1999 | £80,800 | £161,030 | 550 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 497 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 500 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 469 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 407 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 6 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £619,000 in 2026, roughly 11 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 401%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 6 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 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−16.2%). 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) | +19.6% | +16.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.1% | +2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.6% | +3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 89 sales completed in BN1 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 497 sales a year before the financial crisis and 237 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of BN1 6
BN1 6 falls under Brighton and Hove, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £619,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
Reading the BN1 6 market
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. Within BN1, this sector trades 41% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: BN1 6 (Coldean)
Are property prices falling in BN1 6 (Coldean)?
Is BN1 6 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN1 6 (Coldean)?
Are BN1 6 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 41% over five years in cash and up 11% 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.
BN1's current homes for sale
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in BN
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 5 | £521,700 | 57 |
| 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 in BN1 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 6 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 6.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BN1 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN1 6 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.