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Friday Street market report BN23, Eastbourne
The BN23 (Friday Street) 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: 21,432 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN23 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in BN23 (Eastbourne) sold for £289,000 in 2026, the median of 182 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £297,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 21,432 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN23 is a postcode district covering Eastbourne, Friday Street, Langney 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 BN23 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 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for BN23 is £289,000, taken from 182 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £297,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BN23 prices by floor area
A square metre of BN23 home has cost about £3,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN23 trades 1% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BN23 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 | £289,000 | £289,000 | 182 |
| 2025 | £283,000 | £289,767 | 492 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 421 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 433 |
| 2022 | £305,500 | £358,234 | 512 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 687 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 419 |
| 2019 | £248,500 | £325,724 | 458 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 515 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 553 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 578 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 640 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 654 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 575 |
| 2012 | £177,000 | £260,522 | 436 |
| 2011 | £179,000 | £270,221 | 441 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 455 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 466 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 454 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 1,022 |
| 2006 | £181,500 | £315,061 | 1,057 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 918 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 1,227 |
| 2003 | £160,500 | £295,680 | 1,220 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 1,199 |
| 2001 | £112,500 | £216,276 | 1,175 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 977 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 900 |
| 1998 | £64,200 | £129,592 | 628 |
| 1997 | £57,300 | £117,511 | 685 |
| 1996 | £52,500 | £110,720 | 596 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 457 |
In cash terms the typical BN23 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £289,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN23 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 (+40.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN23 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £375,000 against £210,000 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, BN23
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 | £375,000 | 43 | 4,139 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 37 | 4,739 |
| Terraced | £279,000 | 53 | 6,075 |
| Flats | £210,000 | 49 | 6,479 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 393 BN23 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 1,099 sales a year before the financial crisis and 408 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 market
Among the 30 measurable districts of its area, BN23 ranks 26 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of BN23
For renting purposes BN23 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.
Against the £289,000 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.
Common questions on BN23 (Friday Street)
Is BN23 (Friday Street) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN23 (Friday Street)?
Are property prices falling in BN23 (Friday Street)?
Where do BN23 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 is for sale in BN23 right now
Everything above is what homes in BN23 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the BN23 median sold price.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
BN23 ranks 17 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.
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.
Inside BN23, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN23 5 | £290,000 | 59 |
| BN23 6 | £300,000 | 37 |
| BN23 7 | £280,000 | 47 |
| BN23 8 | £285,000 | 39 |
How BN23 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the BN area, and BN23 itself, which ranks 26 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% |
| BN23 (this report) | £289,000 | +3% |
Thinking of selling in BN23? 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 BN23, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN23's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN23 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN23.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN23 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN23 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.