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Albourne market report BN6, Hassocks
The BN6 (Albourne) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 10,156 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN6 (Hassocks) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 113 registered 2026 sales put the BN6 (Hassocks) median at £510,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £556,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,310 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 10,156 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BN6 is the postcode district covering Hassocks, Albourne, Clayton in Hassocks. 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 BN6 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.
BN6 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 113 registered 2026 sales in BN6 and the middle price, the median, is £510,000. The mean lands at £556,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BN6 prices by floor area
A square metre of BN6 home has cost about £5,310 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN6 sits 79% above the national market.
The price of a typical BN6 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £510,000 | £510,000 | 113 |
| 2025 | £550,000 | £563,152 | 308 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 324 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 291 |
| 2022 | £507,000 | £594,515 | 383 |
| 2021 | £480,000 | £607,742 | 457 |
| 2020 | £485,000 | £629,298 | 307 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 308 |
| 2018 | £440,000 | £586,528 | 303 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 290 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 298 |
| 2015 | £395,000 | £558,135 | 311 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 334 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 304 |
| 2012 | £320,000 | £471,000 | 279 |
| 2011 | £295,000 | £445,337 | 245 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 315 |
| 2009 | £285,000 | £458,140 | 295 |
| 2008 | £293,500 | £481,108 | 255 |
| 2007 | £295,000 | £500,402 | 405 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 375 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 290 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 308 |
| 2003 | £235,000 | £432,927 | 345 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 353 |
| 2001 | £163,000 | £313,359 | 333 |
| 2000 | £154,000 | £302,225 | 298 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 323 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 357 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 352 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 365 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 332 |
In cash terms the typical BN6 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £510,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN6 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 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BN6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.3% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £670,800 against £280,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BN6
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 | £670,800 | 44 | 4,044 |
| Semi-detached | £480,000 | 41 | 3,325 |
| Terraced | £400,000 | 19 | 1,555 |
| Flats | £280,000 | 9 | 1,232 |
How many homes change hands in BN6
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 237 BN6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 284 sales a year recently, against 338 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 tenants pay around BN6
For renting purposes BN6 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.
£1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, which against the £510,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
How BN6 trades
By median price, BN6 presently tops its postcode area.
BN6 (Albourne): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BN6 (Albourne)?
Is BN6 (Albourne) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN6 (Albourne)?
Will BN6 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
BN6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BN6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 21 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 86% above the BN6 median sold price.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BN area. 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 | — | £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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN6 ranks 9 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 BN6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 8 | £525,000 | 53 |
| BN6 9 | £474,500 | 60 |
How BN6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 (this report) | £510,000 | +6% |
| BN7 | £465,000 | +0% |
| BN45 | £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% |
Before you sell in BN6: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN6 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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN6.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN6 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.
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.