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Southwick market report BN42, Brighton
The BN42 (Southwick) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,060 HM Land Registry entries for BN42 (Brighton), 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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in BN42 (Brighton) sold for £435,000 in 2026, the median of 53 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £473,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,060 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN42 is the postcode district covering Southwick in Brighton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BN42 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 BN42
The 2026 median for BN42 is £435,000, taken from 53 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £473,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BN42
By floor space, homes in BN42 have sold for about £4,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN42 trades 53% above the country as a whole.
BN42'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 | £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 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN42 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £495,000 against £302,800 for a flat, 1.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BN42
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 | £495,000 | 9 | 823 |
| Semi-detached | £487,500 | 24 | 2,132 |
| Terraced | £421,200 | 14 | 1,209 |
| Flats | £302,800 | 6 | 896 |
What BN42 has returned, per year
| 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% |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
BN42 recorded 107 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 kind of market BN42 is
Only 107 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN42 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. BN42 sits 7 of 30 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Rents around BN42
BN42 falls under Adur, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,383 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Asked and answered: BN42 (Southwick)
Is BN42 (Southwick) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN42 (Southwick)?
Are property prices falling in BN42 (Southwick)?
Where do BN42 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
The BN42 sales calendar
August is when BN42 changes hands most (10.8% of the 660 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 4.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 56 | 8.5% |
| February | 50 | 7.6% |
| March | 64 | 9.7% |
| April | 29 | 4.4% |
| May | 45 | 6.8% |
| June | 62 | 9.4% |
| July | 49 | 7.4% |
| August | 71 | 10.8% |
| September | 62 | 9.4% |
| October | 63 | 9.5% |
| November | 50 | 7.6% |
| December | 59 | 8.9% |
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) |
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
BN42 ranks 4 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BN42, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN42 4 | £435,000 | 53 |
How BN42 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £512,500 | +7% |
| BN5 | £475,300 | -2% |
| BN7 | £474,500 | +2% |
| BN45 | £465,000 | -36% |
| BN8 | £438,000 | -3% |
| BN1 | £435,000 | +5% |
| BN42 (this report) | £435,000 | +12% |
| BN3 | £431,500 | +5% |
| BN2 | £430,000 | +8% |
| BN44 | £425,000 | -2% |
| BN43 | £418,500 | +3% |
| BN12 | £410,000 | +6% |
| BN14 | £395,000 | +8% |
| BN41 | £381,000 | +12% |
| BN18 | £375,000 | -2% |
| BN16 | £374,000 | +1% |
| BN20 | £372,500 | +5% |
| BN25 | £370,000 | +0% |
| BN15 | £365,000 | +14% |
| BN24 | £355,000 | +8% |
| BN10 | £345,000 | +5% |
| BN13 | £345,000 | +4% |
| BN9 | £307,500 | +15% |
| BN26 | £305,000 | -6% |
Selling a home in BN42? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN42, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN42 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN42 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN42. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN42 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.
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.