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Climping market report BN17 5, Littlehampton

The BN17 5 (Climping) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,084 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN17 5 (Littlehampton) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in BN17 5 (Littlehampton) came in at £173,500, out of 40 registered, down 31% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £223,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,350 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,084 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

BN17 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN17 (Littlehampton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

What buyers actually paid in BN17 5

The BN17 5 median stands at £173,500 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £223,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

Price per square metre in BN17 5

Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN17 5 sales average about £3,350 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, BN17 5 runs 39% below it.

In cash terms the typical BN17 5 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £173,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 122%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 45% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+50.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−28.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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.

How many homes change hands in BN17 5

BN17 5 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 299 sales a year before the financial crisis and 114 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.

Reading the BN17 5 market

This is a thin market: 40 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. 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. Against the BN17 district median, BN17 5 sits 39% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.

Rents around BN17 5

For renting purposes BN17 5 sits in Arun. The ONS average private rent there is £1,224 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £845 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,974, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

£1,224 a month is £14,688 a year, which against the £173,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.5%. 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.

BN17 5 (Climping): the questions that come up

Are BN17 5 prices heading up or down?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 31% over five years in cash but down 45% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

What is for sale in BN17 right now

The price of an extra bedroom in BN

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in BN17

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN17, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full BN17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN17 compares with its neighbours.

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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.