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Coldean market report BN1, Brighton
The BN1 (Coldean) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 52,195 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN1 (Brighton) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BN1 (Brighton) home changed hands for £440,000 in 2026 (median of 383 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £496,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,610 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 52,195 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BN1 covering Brighton, Coldean, Falmer sits in Brighton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BN1 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 a home in BN1 sells for
Take the 383 registered 2026 sales in BN1 and the middle price, the median, is £440,000. The mean lands at £496,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BN1
A square metre of BN1 home has cost about £5,610 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN1 trades 54% above the country as a whole.
BN1'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 383 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 1,153 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 1,073 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 938 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 1,279 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 1,720 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 992 |
| 2019 | £365,000 | £478,428 | 1,086 |
| 2018 | £367,800 | £490,284 | 1,102 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 1,305 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 1,377 |
| 2015 | £311,500 | £440,150 | 1,612 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 1,727 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 1,462 |
| 2012 | £247,000 | £363,553 | 1,248 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 1,312 |
| 2010 | £247,000 | £387,360 | 1,347 |
| 2009 | £216,000 | £347,222 | 1,203 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 1,066 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 2,203 |
| 2006 | £213,500 | £370,609 | 2,443 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 1,933 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 2,155 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 2,204 |
| 2002 | £145,100 | £273,004 | 2,466 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 2,418 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 2,285 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 2,583 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 2,295 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 2,229 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 1,991 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 1,605 |
In cash terms the typical BN1 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 275%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN1 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 (+29.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £747,500 against £291,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BN1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £747,500 | 32 | 4,113 |
| Semi-detached | £490,000 | 79 | 8,251 |
| Terraced | £597,500 | 118 | 14,245 |
| Flats | £291,000 | 154 | 25,586 |
What BN1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in BN1
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
BN1 recorded 887 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 2,263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 965 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.
What homes rent for around BN1
The local authority for BN1 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.
Set against the £440,000 median sold price, £1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
How BN1 trades
BN1 sits 5 of 30 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about BN1 (Coldean)
Is BN1 (Coldean) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN1 (Coldean)?
Are property prices falling in BN1 (Coldean)?
Are BN1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BN1 today
Everything above is what homes in BN1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 134 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the BN1 median sold price.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN1 ranks 10 of 30 in the BN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the BN area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BN1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 8 | £500,000 | 57 |
| BN1 9 | £345,000 | 18 |
How BN1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £510,000 | +6% |
| BN7 | £465,000 | +0% |
| BN45 | £465,000 | -36% |
| BN5 | £445,000 | -8% |
| BN1 (this report) | £440,000 | +6% |
| BN3 | £437,800 | +6% |
| BN8 | £435,000 | -3% |
| BN42 | £427,500 | +10% |
| BN2 | £425,000 | +6% |
| BN43 | £421,800 | +4% |
| BN44 | £418,000 | -4% |
| BN12 | £402,500 | +5% |
| BN14 | £398,000 | +9% |
| BN41 | £382,000 | +12% |
| BN20 | £380,000 | +7% |
| BN16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| BN25 | £370,000 | +0% |
| BN15 | £365,500 | +14% |
| BN18 | £365,000 | -5% |
| BN24 | £348,200 | +6% |
| BN13 | £348,000 | +5% |
| BN10 | £345,000 | +5% |
| BN9 | £315,000 | +18% |
| BN27 | £300,000 | -3% |
Selling in BN1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN1 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.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN1 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.
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.