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Old Town market report BN21 4, Eastbourne
The BN21 4 (Old Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,118 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN21 4 (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.
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 4 (Eastbourne) came in at £219,500, out of 22 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £264,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,360 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,118 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN21 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN21 (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 BN21 4 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 BN21 4 prices, from the sold record
22 sales were registered in BN21 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £219,500. The mean works out at £264,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BN21 4
By floor space, homes in BN21 4 have sold for about £3,360 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN21 4 trades 23% below the country as a whole.
A typical BN21 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £219,500 | £219,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 93 |
| 2024 | £231,000 | £245,600 | 80 |
| 2023 | £229,000 | £251,615 | 68 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 127 |
| 2021 | £214,000 | £270,952 | 140 |
| 2020 | £181,000 | £234,851 | 68 |
| 2019 | £205,000 | £268,706 | 86 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 113 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 116 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 130 |
| 2015 | £202,200 | £285,709 | 124 |
| 2014 | £181,400 | £257,348 | 157 |
| 2013 | £163,500 | £235,260 | 119 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 89 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 75 |
| 2010 | £176,200 | £276,327 | 102 |
| 2009 | £152,800 | £245,627 | 92 |
| 2008 | £164,000 | £268,831 | 69 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 172 |
| 2006 | £166,000 | £288,155 | 222 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 215 |
| 2004 | £147,000 | £266,981 | 179 |
| 2003 | £131,500 | £242,255 | 150 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 224 |
| 2001 | £88,500 | £170,137 | 149 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 201 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 185 |
| 1998 | £50,500 | £101,938 | 172 |
| 1997 | £52,500 | £107,667 | 136 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 145 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 98 |
In cash terms the typical BN21 4 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £219,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 106%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN21 4 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 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−11.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 22 BN21 4 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 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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 BN21 4 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN21 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around BN21 4
BN21 4 falls under Eastbourne, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, which against the £219,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. 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 BN21 4 (Old Town)
Is BN21 4 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN21 4 (Old Town)?
Are property prices falling in BN21 4 (Old Town)?
Are BN21 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
What is for sale in BN21 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN21 district, not just BN21 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 20% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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.
What another bedroom costs in BN
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £290,000 | 38 |
| BN21 2 | £212,500 | 50 |
| BN21 3 | £140,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full BN21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN21 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BN21 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BN21 4'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BN21 4.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN21 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN21 4 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.