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Friday Street market report BN23 8, Eastbourne
The BN23 8 (Friday Street) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,181 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN23 8 (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: the 2026 median for BN23 8 (Eastbourne) is £285,000, from 39 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £293,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,680 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,181 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BN23 8 is one sector of BN23 (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 BN23 8 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.
BN23 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The BN23 8 median stands at £285,000 for 2026, built from 39 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £293,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
BN23 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BN23 8 homes have averaged around £3,680 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN23 8 runs 0% above it.
The price of a typical BN23 8 home, 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 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £294,000 | £301,030 | 91 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 73 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 81 |
| 2022 | £298,200 | £349,674 | 84 |
| 2021 | £277,500 | £351,351 | 139 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 59 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 78 |
| 2018 | £247,500 | £329,922 | 93 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 99 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 97 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 101 |
| 2014 | £177,800 | £252,240 | 104 |
| 2013 | £170,000 | £244,613 | 106 |
| 2012 | £156,000 | £229,613 | 91 |
| 2011 | £159,000 | £240,029 | 82 |
| 2010 | £164,500 | £257,978 | 70 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 105 |
| 2008 | £156,000 | £255,717 | 85 |
| 2007 | £163,500 | £277,342 | 206 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 171 |
| 2005 | £151,000 | £268,719 | 135 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 178 |
| 2003 | £127,000 | £233,965 | 164 |
| 2002 | £106,500 | £200,379 | 216 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 237 |
| 2000 | £86,500 | £169,756 | 210 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 283 |
| 1998 | £65,700 | £132,620 | 196 |
| 1997 | £57,500 | £117,921 | 227 |
| 1996 | £57,800 | £121,898 | 148 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 133 |
In cash terms the typical BN23 8 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN23 8 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 2000 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−5.1%). 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) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN23 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 39 sales completed in BN23 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 190 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
Reading the BN23 8 market
This is a thin market: 39 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.
The rental side of BN23 8
BN23 8 falls under Eastbourne, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,162 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £814 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,787 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £285,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. 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 BN23 8 (Friday Street)
Are property prices falling in BN23 8 (Friday Street)?
Is BN23 8 (Friday Street) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN23 8 (Friday Street)?
What happens to BN23 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in BN
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BN area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BN23
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN23, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN23 5 | £290,000 | 59 |
| BN23 6 | £300,000 | 37 |
| BN23 7 | £280,000 | 47 |
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 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN23 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN23 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN23 8 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 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN23 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN23 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN23 8 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.