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Poynings market report BN45, Brighton
The BN45 (Poynings) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 258 registered sales in BN45 (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.
Covers registered sales to April 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BN45 (Brighton) home changed hands for £465,000 in 2026 (median of 3 registered sales, down 36% on five years earlier), with the mean at £536,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 258 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BN45 is the postcode district covering Poynings, Pyecombe, Saddlescombe 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 BN45 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.
Today's BN45 prices, from the sold record
The BN45 median stands at £465,000 for 2026, built from 3 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £536,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in BN45
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN45 costs about £4,940 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BN45 63% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BN45 home, 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 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 3 |
| 2025 | £735,000 | £752,576 | 5 |
| 2024 | £446,000 | £474,190 | 7 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 5 |
| 2022 | £650,000 | £762,199 | 7 |
| 2021 | £722,500 | £914,778 | 12 |
| 2020 | £682,500 | £885,558 | 10 |
| 2019 | £445,000 | £583,288 | 9 |
| 2018 | £615,000 | £819,807 | 5 |
| 2017 | £640,000 | £872,896 | 13 |
| 2016 | £386,200 | £540,298 | 10 |
| 2015 | £467,500 | £660,578 | 11 |
| 2014 | £520,200 | £737,995 | 12 |
| 2013 | £358,800 | £516,277 | 6 |
| 2012 | £318,000 | £468,056 | 7 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 3 |
| 2010 | £346,000 | £542,617 | 4 |
| 2009 | £342,500 | £550,572 | 6 |
| 2008 | £542,000 | £888,452 | 5 |
| 2007 | £480,000 | £814,214 | 7 |
| 2006 | £195,500 | £339,363 | 6 |
| 2005 | £430,000 | £765,227 | 8 |
| 2004 | £385,000 | £699,235 | 10 |
| 2003 | £275,500 | £507,538 | 14 |
| 2002 | £217,800 | £409,789 | 10 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 7 |
| 2000 | £146,500 | £287,506 | 5 |
| 1999 | £164,000 | £326,843 | 11 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 11 |
| 1997 | £96,000 | £196,877 | 8 |
| 1996 | £128,800 | £271,633 | 12 |
| 1995 | £82,000 | £178,255 | 9 |
In cash terms the typical BN45 home went from £82,000 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 161%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 49% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN45 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 2007 (+145.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−54.5%). 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) | −36.7% | −38.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −8.4% | −12.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 84% of the typed total.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £822,200 (2021) | – | 85 |
| Semi-detached | £640,000 (2020) | – | 16 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 17 sales completed in BN45. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5 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.
Rents around BN45
For renting purposes BN45 sits in Mid Sussex. The ONS average private rent there is £1,415 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,003 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,200 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Sussex
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £465,000 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
How BN45 trades
This is a thin market: 17 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. BN45 sits 3 of 30 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about BN45 (Poynings)
How much did a house sell for in BN45 (Poynings)?
Are property prices falling in BN45 (Poynings)?
Is BN45 (Poynings) a good place to buy a house?
Are BN45 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 36% over five years in cash but down 49% 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.
What is for sale in BN45 right now
Everything above is what homes in BN45 sold for. The live side of the market holds 1 home at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 61% above the BN45 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every BN45 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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
BN45 ranks 30 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BN45, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN45 7 | £465,000 | 3 |
How BN45 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 (this report) | £465,000 | -36% |
| BN5 | £445,000 | -8% |
| BN1 | £440,000 | +6% |
| BN3 | £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% |
Selling in BN45? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN45, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN45 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN45 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 BN45.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN45. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN45 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.