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Old Town market report BN21 1, Eastbourne
The BN21 1 (Old Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,389 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN21 1 (Eastbourne) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 BN21 1 (Eastbourne) came in at £290,000, out of 38 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £315,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,389 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BN21 1 is a single group of streets within BN21 (Eastbourne), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BN21 1 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 BN21 1 sells for
38 sales were registered in BN21 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £290,000. The mean works out at £315,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BN21 1
A square metre of BN21 1 home has cost about £3,600 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN21 1 2% above the country at large.
BN21 1's median sold price, 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £279,500 | £286,184 | 139 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 153 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 145 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 193 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 234 |
| 2020 | £237,500 | £308,161 | 154 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 155 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 151 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 155 |
| 2016 | £239,800 | £335,483 | 218 |
| 2015 | £219,000 | £309,447 | 194 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 236 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 207 |
| 2012 | £184,000 | £270,825 | 164 |
| 2011 | £186,000 | £280,788 | 128 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 171 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 174 |
| 2008 | £195,800 | £320,958 | 124 |
| 2007 | £197,500 | £335,015 | 263 |
| 2006 | £172,000 | £298,570 | 239 |
| 2005 | £165,500 | £294,523 | 234 |
| 2004 | £154,500 | £280,602 | 247 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 239 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 301 |
| 2001 | £104,500 | £200,896 | 266 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 291 |
| 1999 | £66,200 | £131,933 | 292 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 225 |
| 1997 | £59,500 | £122,022 | 252 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 234 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical BN21 1 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 167%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN21 1 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 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN21 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.8% | +1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.1% |
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 BN21 1
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.
BN21 1 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 260 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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 BN21 1
For renting purposes BN21 1 sits in Eastbourne. The ONS average private rent there is £1,162 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £814 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,787, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastbourne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £290,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,162 a month (£13,944 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the BN21 1 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the BN21 district median, BN21 1 sits 36% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on BN21 1 (Old Town)
Are property prices falling in BN21 1 (Old Town)?
Is BN21 1 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN21 1 (Old Town)?
Are BN21 1 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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 BN21 now
Turning to what is actually available: 98 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN21 district, not just BN21 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
"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 BN21 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BN
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.
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 BN21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN21 2 | £212,500 | 50 |
| BN21 3 | £140,000 | 33 |
| BN21 4 | £219,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full BN21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BN21 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN21 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN21 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN21 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BN21 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN21 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN21 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN21 1 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.
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.