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Bishopstone market report BN25 1, Seaford
The BN25 1 (Bishopstone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,296 HM Land Registry entries for BN25 1 (Seaford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BN25 1 (Seaford) home changed hands for £300,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £306,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,296 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BN25 1 is one sector of BN25 (Seaford): 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 BN25 1 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 BN25 1
The 2026 median for BN25 1 is £300,000, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £306,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BN25 1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN25 1 costs about £3,770 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN25 1 trades 5% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BN25 1 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 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 93 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 83 |
| 2023 | £245,800 | £270,074 | 72 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 103 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 135 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 89 |
| 2019 | £263,000 | £344,730 | 126 |
| 2018 | £289,500 | £385,909 | 107 |
| 2017 | £242,500 | £330,746 | 104 |
| 2016 | £228,000 | £318,974 | 125 |
| 2015 | £218,000 | £308,034 | 107 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 201 |
| 2013 | £208,500 | £300,011 | 93 |
| 2012 | £172,800 | £254,340 | 104 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 93 |
| 2010 | £182,000 | £285,423 | 91 |
| 2009 | £154,800 | £248,842 | 90 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 92 |
| 2007 | £179,500 | £304,482 | 178 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 167 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 150 |
| 2004 | £138,500 | £251,543 | 165 |
| 2003 | £124,000 | £228,438 | 188 |
| 2002 | £105,800 | £199,062 | 190 |
| 2001 | £92,000 | £176,865 | 217 |
| 2000 | £72,600 | £142,478 | 192 |
| 1999 | £65,200 | £129,940 | 230 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 219 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 172 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 155 |
| 1995 | £43,900 | £95,432 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical BN25 1 home went from £43,900 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN25 1 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 2001 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.9%). 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) | +7.1% | +4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 29 BN25 1 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 181 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
The shape of the BN25 1 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN25 1 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. Against the BN25 district median, BN25 1 sits 19% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of BN25 1
The local authority for BN25 1 is Lewes, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,323 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £917 a month here against £2,158 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £300,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,323 a month (£15,876 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
What people ask about BN25 1 (Bishopstone)
Are property prices falling in BN25 1 (Bishopstone)?
Is BN25 1 (Bishopstone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN25 1 (Bishopstone)?
What happens to BN25 1 prices now?
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 21% 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.
BN25's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 60 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN25 district, not just BN25 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 BN25 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BN
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. 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BN25
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN25, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN25 2 | £412,000 | 49 |
| BN25 3 | £348,000 | 55 |
| BN25 4 | £515,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full BN25 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN25 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BN25 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN25 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN25 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN25 1 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 BN25 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN25 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN25 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN25 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.