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Coldean market report BN1 7, Brighton
The BN1 7 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,342 HM Land Registry entries for BN1 7 (Brighton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BN1 7 (Brighton) came in at £455,000, out of 29 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £471,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,170 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,342 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN1 7 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 7 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 7 homes really sell for
29 sales were registered in BN1 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £455,000. The mean works out at £471,900, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BN1 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BN1 7 at roughly £5,170 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN1 7 60% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BN1 7 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 94 |
| 2024 | £441,200 | £469,086 | 78 |
| 2023 | £464,000 | £509,823 | 52 |
| 2022 | £475,500 | £557,578 | 60 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 121 |
| 2020 | £388,000 | £503,438 | 81 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 75 |
| 2018 | £384,000 | £511,879 | 73 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 81 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 102 |
| 2015 | £311,000 | £439,443 | 96 |
| 2014 | £286,200 | £406,025 | 92 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 106 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 87 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 90 |
| 2010 | £242,500 | £380,302 | 85 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 86 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 72 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 146 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 156 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 127 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 137 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 128 |
| 2002 | £141,700 | £266,607 | 152 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 152 |
| 2000 | £103,800 | £203,708 | 124 |
| 1999 | £83,500 | £166,411 | 162 |
| 1998 | £72,500 | £146,346 | 149 |
| 1997 | £65,600 | £134,532 | 127 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 126 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 7 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 274%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 7 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 (+25.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−5.2%). 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) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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.
Sales activity in BN1 7
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in BN1 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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 7
BN1 7 falls under Brighton and Hove, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £455,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,816 a month (£21,792 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Reading the BN1 7 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN1 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on BN1 7 (Coldean)
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What happens to BN1 7 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 4 | £360,000 | 35 |
| BN1 5 | £521,700 | 57 |
| BN1 6 | £619,000 | 89 |
| 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 7? 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 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN1 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN1 7 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 7.
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The live map plots every individual BN1 7 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.