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Beachy Head market report BN20 7, Eastbourne
The standing BN20 7 (Beachy Head) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,710 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN20 7 (Eastbourne) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BN20 7 (Eastbourne) home changed hands for £325,000 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £371,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,750 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,710 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BN20 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN20 (Eastbourne). 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 BN20 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.
Today's BN20 7 prices, from the sold record
Across 38 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN20 7 home went for £325,000. The mean is £371,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
BN20 7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN20 7 costs about £3,750 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN20 7 trades 14% above the country as a whole.
BN20 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £309,800 | £317,208 | 126 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 138 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £346,108 | 132 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 235 |
| 2021 | £303,000 | £383,637 | 257 |
| 2020 | £275,000 | £356,818 | 123 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 165 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 163 |
| 2017 | £264,000 | £360,069 | 194 |
| 2016 | £257,400 | £360,105 | 215 |
| 2015 | £232,500 | £328,523 | 229 |
| 2014 | £227,500 | £322,748 | 223 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 210 |
| 2012 | £217,500 | £320,133 | 170 |
| 2011 | £225,500 | £340,418 | 204 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 171 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 191 |
| 2008 | £242,500 | £397,509 | 159 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 251 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 255 |
| 2005 | £193,800 | £344,886 | 228 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 253 |
| 2003 | £169,200 | £311,707 | 238 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 286 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 295 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 284 |
| 1999 | £79,700 | £158,838 | 288 |
| 1998 | £65,500 | £132,216 | 249 |
| 1997 | £73,800 | £151,349 | 286 |
| 1996 | £66,800 | £140,878 | 242 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 212 |
In cash terms the typical BN20 7 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2008, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2008 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN20 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 2000 (+25.5% 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.
What BN20 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
BN20 7 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 261 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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 tenants pay around BN20 7
BN20 7 falls under Eastbourne, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £814 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,787 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastbourne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
The shape of the BN20 7 market
This is a thin market: 38 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. Against the BN20 district median, BN20 7 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
BN20 7 (Beachy Head): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BN20 7 (Beachy Head)?
Is BN20 7 (Beachy Head) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN20 7 (Beachy Head)?
Will BN20 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BN20 now
Turning to what is actually available: 42 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN20 district, not just BN20 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BN20 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, 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 | — | £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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 BN20
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BN20's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN20 0 | £655,000 | 14 |
| BN20 8 | £343,000 | 41 |
| BN20 9 | £445,800 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full BN20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BN20 7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BN20 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working BN20 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN20 7.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN20 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN20 7 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.