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Aldrington market report BN3, Hove
The BN3 (Aldrington) 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: 60,735 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN3 (Hove) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 438 registered 2026 sales put the BN3 (Hove) median at £437,800, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £524,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,940 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 60,735 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BN3 covering Hove, Aldrington, Hangleton sits in Hove. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BN3 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.
The going rate for a home in BN3
Take the 438 registered 2026 sales in BN3 and the middle price, the median, is £437,800. The mean lands at £524,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in BN3
By floor space, homes in BN3 have sold for about £5,940 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 BN3 54% above the country at large.
BN3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £437,800 | £437,800 | 438 |
| 2025 | £445,000 | £455,641 | 1,295 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 1,390 |
| 2023 | £445,000 | £488,946 | 1,203 |
| 2022 | £433,500 | £508,328 | 1,624 |
| 2021 | £412,000 | £521,645 | 1,850 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 1,188 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 1,325 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 1,332 |
| 2017 | £370,000 | £504,643 | 1,471 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 1,615 |
| 2015 | £315,000 | £445,095 | 1,771 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 1,877 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 1,621 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 1,504 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 1,444 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 1,397 |
| 2009 | £228,200 | £366,833 | 1,352 |
| 2008 | £232,800 | £381,608 | 1,158 |
| 2007 | £238,500 | £404,562 | 2,499 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 2,664 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 2,318 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 2,591 |
| 2003 | £167,500 | £308,576 | 2,573 |
| 2002 | £152,500 | £286,927 | 2,892 |
| 2001 | £125,300 | £240,883 | 2,838 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 2,748 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 3,130 |
| 1998 | £66,500 | £134,235 | 2,730 |
| 1997 | £58,500 | £119,972 | 2,791 |
| 1996 | £53,500 | £112,829 | 2,272 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 1,834 |
In cash terms the typical BN3 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £437,800 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 311%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN3 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 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−3.4%). 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) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 63% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £855,000 against £320,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, BN3
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 | £855,000 | 42 | 4,639 |
| Semi-detached | £637,500 | 64 | 8,885 |
| Terraced | £625,000 | 100 | 9,112 |
| Flats | £320,000 | 232 | 38,099 |
How many homes change hands in BN3
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 968 sales completed in BN3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 2,640 sales a year before the financial crisis and 1,190 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.
What homes rent for around BN3
For renting purposes BN3 sits in Brighton and Hove. The ONS average private rent there is £1,816 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,193 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,495, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Brighton and Hove
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £437,800 median sold price, £1,816 a month is £21,792 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the BN3 market
Among the 30 measurable districts of its area, BN3 ranks 6 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on BN3 (Aldrington)
Is BN3 (Aldrington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN3 (Aldrington)?
Are property prices falling in BN3 (Aldrington)?
What happens to BN3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 BN3 today
Everything above is what homes in BN3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 119 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the BN3 median sold price.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 BN3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in BN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN3 ranks 7 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.
BN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BN3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN3 1 | £310,000 | 63 |
| BN3 2 | £385,000 | 44 |
| BN3 3 | £360,000 | 83 |
| BN3 4 | £555,000 | 35 |
| BN3 5 | £592,500 | 83 |
| BN3 6 | £660,000 | 59 |
| BN3 7 | £460,000 | 43 |
| BN3 8 | £475,000 | 28 |
How BN3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| BN27 | £300,000 | -3% |
Thinking of selling in BN3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.