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Cooksbridge market report BN7 1, Lewes
The BN7 1 (Cooksbridge) 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: 4,858 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN7 1 (Lewes) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 60 registered 2026 sales put the BN7 1 (Lewes) median at £563,200, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £616,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,120 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,858 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BN7 1 is one sector of BN7 (Lewes): 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 BN7 1 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 BN7 1 sells for
60 sales were registered in BN7 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £563,200. The mean works out at £616,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BN7 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN7 1 sales average about £6,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BN7 1 trades 98% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BN7 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £563,200 | £563,200 | 60 |
| 2025 | £577,500 | £591,310 | 138 |
| 2024 | £570,000 | £606,027 | 117 |
| 2023 | £615,000 | £675,735 | 107 |
| 2022 | £600,000 | £703,568 | 123 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 165 |
| 2020 | £522,500 | £677,955 | 110 |
| 2019 | £480,000 | £629,165 | 110 |
| 2018 | £485,000 | £646,514 | 104 |
| 2017 | £427,500 | £583,067 | 98 |
| 2016 | £435,000 | £608,569 | 133 |
| 2015 | £377,500 | £533,408 | 134 |
| 2014 | £390,000 | £553,283 | 151 |
| 2013 | £356,800 | £513,400 | 152 |
| 2012 | £325,000 | £478,359 | 137 |
| 2011 | £306,500 | £462,697 | 126 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 129 |
| 2009 | £267,300 | £429,687 | 138 |
| 2008 | £312,500 | £512,253 | 96 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 187 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 237 |
| 2005 | £249,200 | £443,476 | 174 |
| 2004 | £240,000 | £435,887 | 203 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 187 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 186 |
| 2001 | £161,800 | £311,052 | 196 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 154 |
| 1999 | £116,000 | £231,182 | 245 |
| 1998 | £104,000 | £209,931 | 194 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 209 |
| 1996 | £82,500 | £173,989 | 203 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical BN7 1 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £563,200 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 245%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN7 1 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 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.5% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN7 1
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, 60 sales completed in BN7 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
The shape of the BN7 1 market
Within BN7, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around BN7 1
The local authority for BN7 1 is Lewes, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,323 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £917 a month here against £2,158 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £563,200 median sold price, £1,323 a month is £15,876 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.
Asked and answered: BN7 1 (Cooksbridge)
Are property prices falling in BN7 1 (Cooksbridge)?
Is BN7 1 (Cooksbridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN7 1 (Cooksbridge)?
What happens to BN7 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in BN7 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 53 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN7 district, not just BN7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 BN7 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.
What another bedroom costs in BN
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BN area. 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
The spread across the BN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BN area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BN7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BN7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN7 2 | £363,000 | 55 |
| BN7 3 | £612,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full BN7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BN7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BN7 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN7 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN7 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN7 1 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 BN7 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN7 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN7 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.