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Friday Street market report BN23 5, Eastbourne
The BN23 5 (Friday Street) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,347 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN23 5 (Eastbourne) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 59 registered 2026 sales put the BN23 5 (Eastbourne) median at £290,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £317,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,347 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BN23 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN23 (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 BN23 5 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 BN23 5 prices, from the sold record
The BN23 5 median stands at £290,000 for 2026, built from 59 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £317,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BN23 5
By floor space, homes in BN23 5 have sold for about £3,660 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, BN23 5 runs 2% above it.
BN23 5's median sold price, 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £247,500 | £253,418 | 164 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 127 |
| 2023 | £312,500 | £343,361 | 146 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 185 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 261 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 149 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 167 |
| 2018 | £261,200 | £348,185 | 176 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 191 |
| 2016 | £262,800 | £367,660 | 220 |
| 2015 | £237,000 | £334,881 | 260 |
| 2014 | £227,000 | £322,039 | 267 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 194 |
| 2012 | £226,000 | £332,644 | 138 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 157 |
| 2010 | £236,000 | £370,109 | 175 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 141 |
| 2008 | £218,000 | £357,348 | 199 |
| 2007 | £234,500 | £397,777 | 485 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 511 |
| 2005 | £228,000 | £405,748 | 536 |
| 2004 | £209,200 | £379,948 | 646 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 695 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 601 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 551 |
| 2000 | £138,000 | £270,825 | 410 |
| 1999 | £86,600 | £172,589 | 188 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 81 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 93 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 94 |
| 1995 | £43,000 | £93,475 | 80 |
In cash terms the typical BN23 5 home went from £43,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 210%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2005. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN23 5 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 1997 (+78.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−14.7%). 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) | +17.2% | +14.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in BN23 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 59 BN23 5 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 554 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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.
The shape of the BN23 5 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN23 5 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.
The rental side of BN23 5
The local authority for BN23 5 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.
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.
BN23 5 (Friday Street): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN23 5 (Friday Street)?
Are property prices falling in BN23 5 (Friday Street)?
Is BN23 5 (Friday Street) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BN23 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in BN23 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN23 district, not just BN23 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BN23 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.
Winners and losers across the BN area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BN23
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN23, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN23 6 | £300,000 | 37 |
| BN23 7 | £280,000 | 47 |
| BN23 8 | £285,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full BN23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN23 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BN23 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN23 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN23 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN23 5 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 BN23 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN23 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN23 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN23 5 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.