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Ashurst market report BN44, Steyning
The BN44 (Ashurst) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,788 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN44 (Steyning) 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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in BN44 (Steyning) sold for £425,000 in 2026, the median of 74 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £517,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,880 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,788 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district BN44 covering Steyning, Ashurst, Botolphs sits in Steyning. 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 BN44 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 BN44 sells for
74 sales were registered in BN44 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £425,000. The mean works out at £517,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in BN44
The last five years of sales put BN44 at roughly £4,880 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN44 runs 49% above it.
BN44's median sold price, 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £445,000 | £455,641 | 161 |
| 2024 | £412,000 | £438,041 | 133 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 119 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 133 |
| 2021 | £433,800 | £549,247 | 182 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 128 |
| 2019 | £378,000 | £495,468 | 145 |
| 2018 | £341,200 | £454,826 | 146 |
| 2017 | £372,000 | £507,371 | 131 |
| 2016 | £357,500 | £500,146 | 170 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 178 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 175 |
| 2013 | £265,000 | £381,309 | 189 |
| 2012 | £297,000 | £437,147 | 143 |
| 2011 | £278,500 | £420,428 | 146 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 158 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 161 |
| 2008 | £265,000 | £434,391 | 101 |
| 2007 | £257,500 | £436,792 | 252 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 247 |
| 2005 | £226,000 | £402,189 | 222 |
| 2004 | £212,500 | £385,942 | 199 |
| 2003 | £190,500 | £350,947 | 192 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 290 |
| 2001 | £148,500 | £285,484 | 226 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 203 |
| 1999 | £102,500 | £204,277 | 241 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 226 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 280 |
| 1996 | £72,500 | £152,899 | 229 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 208 |
In cash terms the typical BN44 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 190%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN44 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 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−10.8%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £690,000 against £277,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BN44
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 | £690,000 | 21 | 1,893 |
| Semi-detached | £450,000 | 15 | 1,440 |
| Terraced | £380,000 | 30 | 1,586 |
| Flats | £277,500 | 8 | 869 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in BN44
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BN44 recorded 126 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 229 sales a year before the financial crisis and 124 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.
Reading the BN44 market
This is a thin market: 126 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. 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.
What tenants pay around BN44
BN44 falls under Horsham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,455 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,009 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,400, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Horsham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £425,000 median sold price, £1,455 a month is £17,460 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
Common questions on BN44 (Ashurst)
How much did a house sell for in BN44 (Ashurst)?
Are property prices falling in BN44 (Ashurst)?
Is BN44 (Ashurst) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BN44 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 23% 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.
The BN44 sales calendar
Across the 728 sales completed in BN44 from 2021 to 2025, October was the busiest month for completions (11.3% of the total) and May the quietest (6.3%). 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 | 47 | 6.5% |
| February | 63 | 8.7% |
| March | 74 | 10.2% |
| April | 48 | 6.6% |
| May | 46 | 6.3% |
| June | 64 | 8.8% |
| July | 53 | 7.3% |
| August | 61 | 8.4% |
| September | 77 | 10.6% |
| October | 82 | 11.3% |
| November | 49 | 6.7% |
| December | 64 | 8.8% |
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
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 | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BN44 ranks 23 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.
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.
Inside BN44, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN44 3 | £425,000 | 74 |
How BN44 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 | £435,000 | +12% |
| BN3 | £431,500 | +5% |
| BN2 | £430,000 | +8% |
| BN44 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in BN44? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN44, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN44 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN44 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual BN44 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.
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.