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Alciston market report BN26 6, Polegate
The standing BN26 6 (Alciston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,628 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN26 6 (Polegate) 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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BN26 6 (Polegate) sold for £312,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £314,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,040 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,628 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN26 6 is one sector of BN26 (Polegate): 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 BN26 6 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 a home in BN26 6 sells for
45 sales were registered in BN26 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £312,000. The mean works out at £314,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in BN26 6
By floor space, homes in BN26 6 have sold for about £4,040 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BN26 6 9% above the country at large.
BN26 6'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 | £312,000 | £312,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 121 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 123 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 105 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 149 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 182 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 148 |
| 2019 | £260,000 | £340,798 | 132 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 161 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 140 |
| 2016 | £260,800 | £364,862 | 192 |
| 2015 | £233,200 | £329,512 | 200 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 219 |
| 2013 | £186,800 | £268,787 | 166 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 139 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 117 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 83 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 108 |
| 2008 | £177,000 | £290,140 | 83 |
| 2007 | £177,500 | £301,089 | 149 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 158 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 129 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 154 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 169 |
| 2002 | £112,700 | £212,044 | 172 |
| 2001 | £89,500 | £172,059 | 176 |
| 2000 | £78,800 | £154,645 | 191 |
| 1999 | £66,200 | £131,933 | 174 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 131 |
| 1997 | £55,500 | £113,819 | 153 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 162 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical BN26 6 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £312,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN26 6 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 2003 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−7.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN26 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.0% | −3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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, 45 sales completed in BN26 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 162 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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 BN26 6 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN26 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around BN26 6
For renting purposes BN26 6 sits in Wealden. The ONS average private rent there is £1,266 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £899 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,096, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wealden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £312,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,266 a month (£15,192 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
BN26 6 (Alciston): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN26 6 (Alciston)?
Are property prices falling in BN26 6 (Alciston)?
Is BN26 6 (Alciston) a good place to buy a house?
Are BN26 6 prices heading up or down?
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.
What you could buy in BN26 now
Turning to what is actually available: 35 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN26 district, not just BN26 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 BN26 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 BN26
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN26, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN26 5 | £295,000 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full BN26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN26 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BN26 6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN26 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN26 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN26 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN26 6.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BN26 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN26 6 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.