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Old Town market report BN21 2, Eastbourne
The BN21 2 (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: 6,733 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN21 2 (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 2 (Eastbourne) came in at £212,500, out of 50 registered, down 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £255,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,520 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,733 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN21 2 is one sector of BN21 (Eastbourne): 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 BN21 2 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 BN21 2
Take the 50 registered 2026 sales in BN21 2 and the middle price, the median, is £212,500. The mean lands at £255,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
BN21 2 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BN21 2 have sold for about £3,520 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN21 2 25% below the country at large.
A typical BN21 2 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 | £212,500 | £212,500 | 50 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 153 |
| 2024 | £245,000 | £260,485 | 153 |
| 2023 | £240,000 | £263,701 | 141 |
| 2022 | £235,000 | £275,564 | 177 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 231 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 151 |
| 2019 | £258,000 | £338,176 | 125 |
| 2018 | £202,500 | £269,936 | 185 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 204 |
| 2016 | £232,000 | £324,570 | 232 |
| 2015 | £218,000 | £308,034 | 219 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 201 |
| 2013 | £156,800 | £225,620 | 166 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 128 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 133 |
| 2010 | £198,500 | £311,299 | 130 |
| 2009 | £190,500 | £306,230 | 131 |
| 2008 | £166,500 | £272,929 | 138 |
| 2007 | £174,500 | £296,001 | 270 |
| 2006 | £166,500 | £289,023 | 306 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 225 |
| 2004 | £153,000 | £277,878 | 299 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 243 |
| 2002 | £122,000 | £229,542 | 373 |
| 2001 | £89,500 | £172,059 | 306 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 321 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 403 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 260 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 275 |
| 1996 | £46,700 | £98,488 | 228 |
| 1995 | £54,700 | £118,909 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical BN21 2 home went from £54,700 in 1995 to £212,500 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 79%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN21 2 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 2002 (+36.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −21.3% | −23.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.0% | −9.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.9% | −4.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BN21 2 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 293 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
The rental side of BN21 2
The local authority for BN21 2 is Eastbourne, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £814 a month here against £1,787 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Eastbourne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £212,500 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 6.6%: 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 kind of market BN21 2 is
Only 50 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN21 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on BN21 2 (Old Town)
Are property prices falling in BN21 2 (Old Town)?
Is BN21 2 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN21 2 (Old Town)?
Will BN21 2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 23% over five years in cash but down 39% 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.
On the market in BN21 today
The live side of the market holds 98 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN21 district, not just BN21 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% 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.
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 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.
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BN area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BN21
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BN21's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN21 1 | £290,000 | 38 |
| 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 in BN21 2? 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 BN21 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN21 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN21 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BN21 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN21 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN21 2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.