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Ferring market report BN12, Worthing
The BN12 (Ferring) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 15,114 registered sales in BN12 (Worthing) 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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for BN12 (Worthing) is £410,000, from 168 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £421,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,850 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 15,114 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BN12 is the postcode district covering Worthing, Ferring, Goring-by-Sea in Worthing. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BN12 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 BN12 homes really sell for
168 sales were registered in BN12 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £410,000. The mean works out at £421,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in BN12
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN12 sales average about £4,850 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN12 trades 44% above the country as a whole.
A typical BN12 home, priced year by year (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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 168 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 396 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 418 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 353 |
| 2022 | £457,500 | £536,471 | 382 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 518 |
| 2020 | £386,800 | £501,881 | 378 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 475 |
| 2018 | £335,000 | £446,561 | 433 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 499 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 540 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 551 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 544 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 448 |
| 2012 | £248,000 | £365,025 | 385 |
| 2011 | £228,000 | £344,192 | 385 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 385 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 381 |
| 2008 | £228,500 | £374,560 | 259 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 597 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 655 |
| 2005 | £216,500 | £385,283 | 398 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 517 |
| 2003 | £199,200 | £366,975 | 522 |
| 2002 | £162,000 | £304,802 | 630 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 571 |
| 2000 | £115,200 | £226,080 | 526 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 633 |
| 1998 | £89,400 | £180,460 | 584 |
| 1997 | £81,000 | £166,115 | 567 |
| 1996 | £73,200 | £154,376 | 568 |
| 1995 | £68,600 | £149,126 | 448 |
In cash terms the typical BN12 home went from £68,600 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 175%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% 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 BN12 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 2003 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.3%). 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 year (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.0% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £531,800 against £228,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, BN12
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 | £531,800 | 70 | 5,920 |
| Semi-detached | £386,200 | 40 | 4,335 |
| Terraced | £318,500 | 13 | 1,703 |
| Flats | £228,000 | 45 | 3,156 |
Sales activity in BN12
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 286 BN12 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 552 sales a year before the financial crisis and 343 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.
What homes rent for around BN12
BN12 falls under Worthing, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,311 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £899 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,954, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Worthing
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,311 a month (£15,732 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
Asked and answered: BN12 (Ferring)
Are property prices falling in BN12 (Ferring)?
Is BN12 (Ferring) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN12 (Ferring)?
Are BN12 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
BN12's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BN12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 9 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% below the BN12 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (286 in BN12), the 9 homes listed here amount to about 2 weeks of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every BN12 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.
The BN12 sales calendar
March is when BN12 changes hands most (11.9% of the 2,067 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 7.1%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 155 | 7.5% |
| February | 159 | 7.7% |
| March | 245 | 11.9% |
| April | 147 | 7.1% |
| May | 158 | 7.6% |
| June | 211 | 10.2% |
| July | 171 | 8.3% |
| August | 170 | 8.2% |
| September | 171 | 8.3% |
| October | 163 | 7.9% |
| November | 154 | 7.5% |
| December | 163 | 7.9% |
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 | £365,000 | £410,000 (+12%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £625,000 (+30%) | £880,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £299,000 | £327,000 (+9%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £500,000 (+30%) | £697,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £260,000 | £310,000 (+19%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £494,500 (+39%) | £688,750 (+39%) |
| Flat | £195,000 | £260,000 (+33%) | £350,000 (+35%) | £450,000 (+29%) | £585,000 (+30%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN12 ranks 9 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.
BN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BN12, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How BN12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £512,500 | +7% |
| BN5 | £475,300 | -2% |
| BN7 | £474,500 | +2% |
| BN45 | £465,000 | -36% |
| BN8 | £438,000 | -3% |
| BN1 | £435,000 | +5% |
| BN42 | £435,000 | +12% |
| BN3 | £431,500 | +5% |
| BN2 | £430,000 | +8% |
| BN44 | £425,000 | -2% |
| BN43 | £418,500 | +3% |
| BN12 (this report) | £410,000 | +6% |
| BN14 | £395,000 | +8% |
| BN41 | £381,000 | +12% |
| BN18 | £375,000 | -2% |
| BN16 | £374,000 | +1% |
| BN20 | £372,500 | +5% |
| BN25 | £370,000 | +0% |
| BN15 | £365,000 | +14% |
| BN24 | £355,000 | +8% |
| BN10 | £345,000 | +5% |
| BN13 | £345,000 | +4% |
| BN9 | £307,500 | +15% |
| BN26 | £305,000 | -6% |
Selling a home in BN12? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN12, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN12. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN12 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.