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Albourne market report BN6 8, Hassocks
The BN6 8 (Albourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,241 HM Land Registry entries for BN6 8 (Hassocks), 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in BN6 8 (Hassocks) sold for £525,000 in 2026, the median of 53 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £550,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,380 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,241 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN6 8 is one sector of BN6 (Hassocks): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BN6 8 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 BN6 8 sells for
53 sales were registered in BN6 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £525,000. The mean works out at £550,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
BN6 8 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BN6 8 have sold for about £5,380 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 BN6 8 84% above the country at large.
The price of a typical BN6 8 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 | £525,000 | £525,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £561,200 | £574,620 | 142 |
| 2024 | £497,000 | £528,413 | 186 |
| 2023 | £490,000 | £538,390 | 161 |
| 2022 | £514,000 | £602,724 | 166 |
| 2021 | £460,000 | £582,419 | 201 |
| 2020 | £459,400 | £596,081 | 146 |
| 2019 | £426,000 | £558,384 | 136 |
| 2018 | £422,500 | £563,200 | 166 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 140 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 143 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 167 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 183 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 174 |
| 2012 | £315,000 | £463,641 | 167 |
| 2011 | £284,000 | £428,731 | 138 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 206 |
| 2009 | £282,500 | £454,121 | 169 |
| 2008 | £294,500 | £482,748 | 147 |
| 2007 | £288,000 | £488,528 | 206 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 209 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 158 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 151 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 181 |
| 2002 | £176,000 | £331,142 | 171 |
| 2001 | £169,000 | £324,894 | 179 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 144 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 164 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 171 |
| 1997 | £87,500 | £179,445 | 171 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 168 |
| 1995 | £82,000 | £178,255 | 177 |
In cash terms the typical BN6 8 home went from £82,000 in 1995 to £525,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 195%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN6 8 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 2003 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−6.5%). 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) | −6.5% | −8.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 53 sales completed in BN6 8. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 142 sales a year recently, against 175 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market BN6 8 is
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. 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.
The rental side of BN6 8
The local authority for BN6 8 is Mid Sussex, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,003 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,200, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Sussex
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £525,000 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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 BN6 8 (Albourne)
Are property prices falling in BN6 8 (Albourne)?
Is BN6 8 (Albourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN6 8 (Albourne)?
Will BN6 8 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BN6 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 21 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN6 district, not just BN6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BN6 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
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight 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. 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.
Other sectors in BN6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 9 | £474,500 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full BN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BN6 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN6 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN6 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN6 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BN6 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BN6 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN6 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.