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Climping market report BN17 7, Littlehampton
The standing BN17 7 (Climping) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,952 HM Land Registry entries for BN17 7 (Littlehampton), 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 BN17 7 (Littlehampton) came in at £274,200, out of 56 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £274,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,700 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,952 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN17 7 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.
Where BN17 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 BN17 7 homes really sell for
Across 56 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN17 7 home went for £274,200. The mean is £274,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in BN17 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN17 7 costs about £3,700 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN17 7 runs 4% below it.
A typical BN17 7 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 | £274,200 | £274,200 | 56 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 170 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 127 |
| 2023 | £276,900 | £304,245 | 144 |
| 2022 | £315,000 | £369,373 | 219 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 216 |
| 2020 | £259,200 | £336,317 | 148 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 213 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 231 |
| 2017 | £263,000 | £358,706 | 307 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 308 |
| 2015 | £225,200 | £318,208 | 240 |
| 2014 | £187,000 | £265,292 | 169 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 123 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 129 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 94 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 103 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 109 |
| 2008 | £156,000 | £255,717 | 116 |
| 2007 | £164,000 | £278,190 | 235 |
| 2006 | £148,000 | £256,909 | 221 |
| 2005 | £143,200 | £254,838 | 161 |
| 2004 | £136,700 | £248,274 | 200 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 208 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 256 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 263 |
| 2000 | £73,000 | £143,263 | 218 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 198 |
| 1998 | £55,200 | £111,425 | 194 |
| 1997 | £47,500 | £97,413 | 258 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 169 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical BN17 7 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £274,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 187%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN17 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 (+21.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−12.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN17 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in BN17 7
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 56 sales completed in BN17 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 220 sales a year before the financial crisis and 143 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around BN17 7
BN17 7 falls under Arun, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,224 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Arun
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,224 a month is £14,688 a year, which against the £274,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. 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.
The shape of the BN17 7 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN17 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
BN17 7 (Climping): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN17 7 (Climping)?
Are property prices falling in BN17 7 (Climping)?
Is BN17 7 (Climping) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BN17 7 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in BN17 today
Turning to what is actually available: 146 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN17 district, not just BN17 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
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.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BN17 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
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:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN17 5 | £173,500 | 40 |
| BN17 6 | £325,000 | 83 |
Zoom out to the full BN17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN17 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BN17 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN17 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN17 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN17 7 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 BN17 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN17 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN17 7 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.
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.