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Old Town market report BN21, Eastbourne
The standing BN21 (Old Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 22,349 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN21 (Eastbourne) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BN21 (Eastbourne) came in at £213,000, out of 143 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £249,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 22,349 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BN21 is a postcode district covering Eastbourne, Old Town in Eastbourne. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BN21 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
Take the 143 registered 2026 sales in BN21 and the middle price, the median, is £213,000. The mean lands at £249,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BN21
By floor space, homes in BN21 have sold for about £3,390 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN21 runs 25% below it.
BN21's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £213,000 | £213,000 | 143 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 487 |
| 2024 | £238,000 | £253,043 | 472 |
| 2023 | £230,000 | £252,714 | 457 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 632 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 722 |
| 2020 | £207,000 | £268,587 | 453 |
| 2019 | £225,500 | £295,577 | 474 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 557 |
| 2017 | £189,000 | £257,777 | 635 |
| 2016 | £182,000 | £254,620 | 769 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 729 |
| 2014 | £179,500 | £254,652 | 720 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 611 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 479 |
| 2011 | £158,200 | £238,821 | 448 |
| 2010 | £172,500 | £270,524 | 489 |
| 2009 | £152,000 | £244,341 | 559 |
| 2008 | £160,800 | £263,585 | 444 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 959 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 1,037 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 905 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 946 |
| 2003 | £127,000 | £233,965 | 873 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 1,156 |
| 2001 | £82,500 | £158,602 | 969 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 1,091 |
| 1999 | £62,700 | £124,958 | 1,078 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 841 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 883 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 775 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 556 |
In cash terms the typical BN21 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £213,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 108%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN21 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 63% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £177,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, BN21
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £525,000 | 9 | 2,564 |
| Semi-detached | £368,800 | 12 | 1,798 |
| Terraced | £299,500 | 21 | 3,962 |
| Flats | £177,000 | 101 | 14,025 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.4% | −9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN21
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 351 sales completed in BN21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 992 sales a year before the financial crisis and 438 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around BN21
For renting purposes BN21 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.
Set against the £213,000 median sold price, £1,162 a month is £13,944 a year, a gross yield of 6.5%: 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 BN21 market
BN21 is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
What people ask about BN21 (Old Town)
Are property prices falling in BN21 (Old Town)?
Is BN21 (Old Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN21 (Old Town)?
Are BN21 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in BN21 now
Everything above is what homes in BN21 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 98 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the BN21 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN21 ranks 29 of 30 in the BN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BN area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BN21, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN21 1 | £290,000 | 38 |
| BN21 2 | £212,500 | 50 |
| BN21 3 | £140,000 | 33 |
| BN21 4 | £219,500 | 22 |
How BN21 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the BN area, and BN21 itself, which ranks 30 of 30 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £510,000 | +6% |
| BN7 | £465,000 | +0% |
| BN45 | £465,000 | -36% |
| BN5 | £445,000 | -8% |
| BN1 | £440,000 | +6% |
| BN3 | £437,800 | +6% |
| BN8 | £435,000 | -3% |
| BN42 | £427,500 | +10% |
| BN2 | £425,000 | +6% |
| BN43 | £421,800 | +4% |
| BN44 | £418,000 | -4% |
| BN12 | £402,500 | +5% |
| BN14 | £398,000 | +9% |
| BN41 | £382,000 | +12% |
| BN20 | £380,000 | +7% |
| BN16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| BN25 | £370,000 | +0% |
| BN15 | £365,500 | +14% |
| BN18 | £365,000 | -5% |
| BN24 | £348,200 | +6% |
| BN13 | £348,000 | +5% |
| BN10 | £345,000 | +5% |
| BN9 | £315,000 | +18% |
| BN21 (this report) | £213,000 | -9% |
Selling a home in BN21? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN21, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN21 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN21 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BN21: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN21.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN21 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN21 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.
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.