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Albourne market report BN6 9, Hassocks
The standing BN6 9 (Albourne) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,915 HM Land Registry entries for BN6 9 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BN6 9 (Hassocks) home changed hands for £474,500 in 2026 (median of 60 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £562,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,230 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,915 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BN6 9 is a single group of streets within BN6 (Hassocks), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BN6 9 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.
The going rate for a home in BN6 9
Across 60 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN6 9 home went for £474,500. The mean is £562,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BN6 9
By floor space, homes in BN6 9 have sold for about £5,230 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BN6 9 runs 66% above it.
A typical BN6 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £474,500 | £474,500 | 60 |
| 2025 | £549,000 | £562,128 | 166 |
| 2024 | £534,000 | £567,752 | 138 |
| 2023 | £567,000 | £622,995 | 130 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 217 |
| 2021 | £492,000 | £622,935 | 256 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 161 |
| 2019 | £442,500 | £580,012 | 172 |
| 2018 | £465,000 | £619,854 | 137 |
| 2017 | £495,000 | £675,130 | 150 |
| 2016 | £432,500 | £605,072 | 155 |
| 2015 | £420,000 | £593,460 | 144 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 151 |
| 2013 | £330,000 | £474,837 | 130 |
| 2012 | £337,000 | £496,022 | 112 |
| 2011 | £312,600 | £471,906 | 107 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 109 |
| 2009 | £286,800 | £461,033 | 126 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 108 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 199 |
| 2006 | £268,500 | £466,082 | 166 |
| 2005 | £265,000 | £471,593 | 132 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 157 |
| 2003 | £249,700 | £460,008 | 164 |
| 2002 | £195,900 | £368,584 | 182 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 154 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 154 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 159 |
| 1998 | £117,700 | £237,586 | 186 |
| 1997 | £91,000 | £186,623 | 181 |
| 1996 | £87,000 | £183,479 | 197 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical BN6 9 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £474,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 143%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BN6 9 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 1998 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.6% | −15.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
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.
BN6 9 recorded 60 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 142 sales a year recently, against 164 a year before 2008. 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 BN6 9 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of BN6 9
The local authority for BN6 9 is Mid Sussex, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,003 a month here against £2,200 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Sussex
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, which against the £474,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
BN6 9 (Albourne): the questions that come up
Is BN6 9 (Albourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN6 9 (Albourne)?
Are property prices falling in BN6 9 (Albourne)?
Where do BN6 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BN6 now
Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN6 district, not just BN6 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BN6 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BN6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BN6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 8 | £525,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full BN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BN6 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN6 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN6 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN6 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BN6 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN6 9.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BN6 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN6 9 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.