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Old Town market report BN21 3, Eastbourne
The standing BN21 3 (Old Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,109 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN21 3 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BN21 3 (Eastbourne) sold for £140,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, down 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £154,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,109 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN21 3 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 3 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 BN21 3 homes really sell for
Take the 33 registered 2026 sales in BN21 3 and the middle price, the median, is £140,000. The mean lands at £154,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BN21 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of BN21 3 home has cost about £2,900 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BN21 3 51% below the national figure.
A typical BN21 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £164,000 | £167,922 | 102 |
| 2024 | £157,500 | £167,455 | 86 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 103 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 135 |
| 2021 | £168,500 | £213,343 | 117 |
| 2020 | £157,200 | £203,970 | 80 |
| 2019 | £171,000 | £224,140 | 108 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 108 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 160 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 189 |
| 2015 | £127,500 | £180,158 | 192 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 126 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 119 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 98 |
| 2011 | £106,000 | £160,019 | 112 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 86 |
| 2009 | £128,000 | £205,761 | 162 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 113 |
| 2007 | £131,500 | £223,061 | 254 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 270 |
| 2005 | £119,500 | £212,662 | 231 |
| 2004 | £113,500 | £206,138 | 221 |
| 2003 | £100,000 | £184,224 | 241 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 258 |
| 2001 | £61,000 | £117,269 | 248 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 278 |
| 1999 | £46,200 | £92,074 | 198 |
| 1998 | £39,600 | £79,935 | 184 |
| 1997 | £41,000 | £84,083 | 220 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 168 |
| 1995 | £35,500 | £77,172 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical BN21 3 home went from £35,500 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 81%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 41% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN21 3 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 (+31.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.2%). 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) | −14.6% | −16.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.6% | −8.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.8% | −2.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN21 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 33 BN21 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 250 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 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 homes rent for around BN21 3
The local authority for BN21 3 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 £140,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 10.0%: 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.
Reading the BN21 3 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. Within BN21, this sector trades 34% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: BN21 3 (Old Town)
Is BN21 3 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN21 3 (Old Town)?
Are property prices falling in BN21 3 (Old Town)?
Will BN21 3 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 34% 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 3: 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.
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in BN
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight 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%) | — |
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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN21, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN21 1 | £290,000 | 38 |
| BN21 2 | £212,500 | 50 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in BN21 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN21 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN21 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN21 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BN21 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN21 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN21 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BN21 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.