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Coldean market report BN1 8, Brighton
The BN1 8 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,398 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN1 8 (Brighton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BN1 8 (Brighton) is £500,000, from 57 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £534,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,250 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,398 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 8 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 8 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 buyers actually paid in BN1 8
Take the 57 registered 2026 sales in BN1 8 and the middle price, the median, is £500,000. The mean lands at £534,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in BN1 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN1 8 sales average about £5,250 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BN1 8 75% above the national figure.
BN1 8's median sold price, 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £456,200 | £467,109 | 192 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 186 |
| 2023 | £472,500 | £519,162 | 150 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 212 |
| 2021 | £456,000 | £577,355 | 272 |
| 2020 | £409,000 | £530,686 | 182 |
| 2019 | £377,500 | £494,812 | 173 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 184 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 212 |
| 2016 | £362,800 | £507,561 | 200 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 220 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 233 |
| 2013 | £259,500 | £373,395 | 222 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 218 |
| 2011 | £247,000 | £372,875 | 211 |
| 2010 | £248,500 | £389,712 | 190 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 188 |
| 2008 | £242,800 | £398,000 | 140 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 265 |
| 2006 | £228,000 | £395,779 | 333 |
| 2005 | £218,000 | £387,952 | 287 |
| 2004 | £208,600 | £378,858 | 259 |
| 2003 | £186,500 | £343,578 | 275 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 312 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 364 |
| 2000 | £123,200 | £241,780 | 247 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 331 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 298 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 281 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 289 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 215 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 8 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 229%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 8 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 (+36.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−14.3%). 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) | +9.6% | +7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in BN1 8
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.
BN1 8 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 293 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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.
The rental side of BN1 8
The local authority for BN1 8 is Brighton and Hove, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,816 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,193 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,495, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Brighton and Hove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,816 a month (£21,792 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 8 market
This is a thin market: 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within BN1, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
BN1 8 (Coldean): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN1 8 (Coldean)?
Are property prices falling in BN1 8 (Coldean)?
Is BN1 8 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
Will BN1 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 you could buy in BN1 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in BN
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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.
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 7 | £455,000 | 29 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BN1 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 8 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 8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN1 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN1 8 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.