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Bevendean market report BN2 5, Brighton
The standing BN2 5 (Bevendean) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 6,235 HM Land Registry entries for BN2 5 (Brighton), 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 BN2 5 (Brighton) came in at £370,000, out of 32 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £376,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,090 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,235 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN2 5 is one sector of BN2 (Brighton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BN2 5 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 BN2 5
Across 32 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN2 5 home went for £370,000. The mean is £376,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BN2 5
The last five years of sales put BN2 5 at roughly £5,090 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN2 5 sits 30% above the national market.
BN2 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 104 |
| 2024 | £351,000 | £373,185 | 97 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 93 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 138 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 157 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 103 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 113 |
| 2018 | £361,200 | £481,486 | 120 |
| 2017 | £327,500 | £446,677 | 149 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 185 |
| 2015 | £290,500 | £410,477 | 184 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 174 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 165 |
| 2012 | £238,000 | £350,306 | 134 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 167 |
| 2010 | £241,500 | £378,734 | 155 |
| 2009 | £203,500 | £327,128 | 126 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 103 |
| 2007 | £242,500 | £411,348 | 273 |
| 2006 | £224,000 | £388,835 | 297 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 209 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 287 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 275 |
| 2002 | £162,500 | £305,742 | 313 |
| 2001 | £147,000 | £282,600 | 310 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 244 |
| 1999 | £105,500 | £210,256 | 430 |
| 1998 | £94,500 | £190,755 | 354 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 305 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 246 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 193 |
In cash terms the typical BN2 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 184%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN2 5 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 (+23.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.4%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.5% | −9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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.
BN2 5 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 276 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 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 shape of the BN2 5 market
This is a thin market: 32 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 BN2 district median, BN2 5 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around BN2 5
BN2 5 falls under Brighton and Hove, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £370,000 median sold price, £1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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.
What people ask about BN2 5 (Bevendean)
Are property prices falling in BN2 5 (Bevendean)?
Is BN2 5 (Bevendean) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN2 5 (Bevendean)?
Where do BN2 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 BN2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 164 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN2 district, not just BN2 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 BN2 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.
What another bedroom costs in BN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in BN2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BN2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN2 0 | £410,000 | 29 |
| BN2 1 | £390,000 | 61 |
| BN2 3 | £369,200 | 58 |
| BN2 4 | £348,000 | 45 |
| BN2 6 | £450,000 | 37 |
| BN2 7 | £642,000 | 35 |
| BN2 8 | £481,500 | 68 |
| BN2 9 | £460,000 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full BN2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BN2 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN2 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN2 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN2 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BN2 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN2 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN2 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN2 5 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.