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Bevendean market report BN2 8, Brighton
The standing BN2 8 (Bevendean) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,019 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN2 8 (Brighton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BN2 8 (Brighton) came in at £481,500, out of 68 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £499,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,760 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,019 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN2 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN2 (Brighton). 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 BN2 8 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 BN2 8 sells for
The BN2 8 median stands at £481,500 for 2026, built from 68 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £499,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BN2 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN2 8 costs about £4,760 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN2 8 69% above the country at large.
BN2 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £481,500 | £481,500 | 68 |
| 2025 | £435,000 | £445,402 | 159 |
| 2024 | £457,500 | £486,416 | 136 |
| 2023 | £466,200 | £512,240 | 106 |
| 2022 | £478,200 | £560,744 | 146 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 208 |
| 2020 | £377,000 | £489,165 | 149 |
| 2019 | £360,500 | £472,529 | 136 |
| 2018 | £382,000 | £509,213 | 123 |
| 2017 | £352,500 | £480,775 | 198 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 204 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 208 |
| 2014 | £279,000 | £395,810 | 223 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 183 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 158 |
| 2011 | £249,500 | £376,649 | 160 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 173 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 181 |
| 2008 | £243,200 | £398,656 | 114 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 242 |
| 2006 | £227,500 | £394,911 | 280 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 189 |
| 2004 | £202,200 | £367,235 | 224 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 229 |
| 2002 | £165,200 | £310,822 | 254 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 249 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 205 |
| 1999 | £93,500 | £186,341 | 244 |
| 1998 | £82,200 | £165,927 | 222 |
| 1997 | £78,200 | £160,372 | 266 |
| 1996 | £69,700 | £146,994 | 216 |
| 1995 | £62,500 | £135,865 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical BN2 8 home went from £62,500 in 1995 to £481,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 254%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN2 8 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 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN2 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.7% | +8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN2 8
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.
BN2 8 recorded 68 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 234 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 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 kind of market BN2 8 is
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 8 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around BN2 8
The local authority for BN2 8 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.
£1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, which against the £481,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Common questions on BN2 8 (Bevendean)
Are property prices falling in BN2 8 (Bevendean)?
Is BN2 8 (Bevendean) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN2 8 (Bevendean)?
Where do BN2 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BN2 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 164 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN2 district, not just BN2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BN area. 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 | — | £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. 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.
BN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BN2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN2, one report each:
| 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 5 | £370,000 | 32 |
| BN2 6 | £450,000 | 37 |
| BN2 7 | £642,000 | 35 |
| 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.
Selling in BN2 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BN2 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN2 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN2 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN2 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.