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Southwick market report BN42 4, Brighton
The BN42 4 (Southwick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,060 registered sales in BN42 4 (Brighton) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical BN42 4 (Brighton) home changed hands for £435,000 in 2026 (median of 53 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £473,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,060 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BN42 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN42 (Brighton). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BN42 4 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 BN42 4 sells for
53 sales were registered in BN42 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £435,000. The mean works out at £473,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BN42 4 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN42 4 sales average about £4,630 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN42 4 sits 53% above the national market.
The price of a typical BN42 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 155 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 107 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 105 |
| 2022 | £448,800 | £526,269 | 134 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 159 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 134 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 149 |
| 2018 | £342,500 | £456,559 | 158 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 128 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 155 |
| 2015 | £296,000 | £418,248 | 153 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 151 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 131 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 151 |
| 2011 | £212,500 | £320,793 | 139 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 160 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 116 |
| 2008 | £217,000 | £355,709 | 119 |
| 2007 | £237,500 | £402,866 | 199 |
| 2006 | £212,500 | £368,873 | 229 |
| 2005 | £190,500 | £339,013 | 170 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 182 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 192 |
| 2002 | £148,200 | £278,837 | 218 |
| 2001 | £122,000 | £234,539 | 227 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 184 |
| 1999 | £82,500 | £164,418 | 194 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 183 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 194 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 180 |
| 1995 | £57,000 | £123,909 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical BN42 4 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 251%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN42 4 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 (+39.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). 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 year (since 2025) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.2% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 53 sales completed in BN42 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
What homes rent for around BN42 4
For renting purposes BN42 4 sits in Adur. The ONS average private rent there is £1,383 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £981 a month here against £2,042 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Adur
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £435,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,383 a month (£16,596 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
Reading the BN42 4 market
This is a thin market: 53 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.
BN42 4 (Southwick): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BN42 4 (Southwick)?
Are property prices falling in BN42 4 (Southwick)?
Is BN42 4 (Southwick) a good place to buy a house?
Will BN42 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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. 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 | £365,000 | £410,000 (+12%) | £480,000 (+17%) | £625,000 (+30%) | £880,000 (+41%) |
| Semi-detached | £299,000 | £327,000 (+9%) | £385,000 (+18%) | £500,000 (+30%) | £697,500 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £260,000 | £310,000 (+19%) | £355,000 (+15%) | £494,500 (+39%) | £688,750 (+39%) |
| Flat | £195,000 | £260,000 (+33%) | £350,000 (+35%) | £450,000 (+29%) | £585,000 (+30%) |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full BN42 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN42 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BN42 4? 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 BN42 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN42 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN42 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN42 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BN42 4 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.
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.