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Cooksbridge market report BN7 2, Lewes
The BN7 2 (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: 4,985 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BN7 2 (Lewes) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BN7 2 (Lewes) is £363,000, from 55 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £371,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,270 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,985 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BN7 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BN7 (Lewes). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BN7 2 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.
BN7 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 55 registered 2026 sales in BN7 2 and the middle price, the median, is £363,000. The mean lands at £371,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in BN7 2
Per square metre, BN7 2 homes have averaged around £5,270 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN7 2 sits 27% above the national market.
BN7 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £363,000 | £363,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 131 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 145 |
| 2023 | £379,900 | £417,417 | 138 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 167 |
| 2021 | £387,500 | £490,625 | 168 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 110 |
| 2019 | £331,000 | £433,862 | 127 |
| 2018 | £311,200 | £414,835 | 130 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 139 |
| 2016 | £326,200 | £456,357 | 120 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 143 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 190 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 142 |
| 2012 | £242,000 | £356,194 | 123 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 140 |
| 2010 | £228,500 | £358,347 | 128 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 152 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 148 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 197 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 244 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 149 |
| 2004 | £183,800 | £333,817 | 192 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 174 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 220 |
| 2001 | £111,000 | £213,392 | 169 |
| 2000 | £103,000 | £202,138 | 173 |
| 1999 | £79,000 | £157,443 | 187 |
| 1998 | £67,500 | £136,254 | 179 |
| 1997 | £61,800 | £126,739 | 192 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 168 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical BN7 2 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £363,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 196%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN7 2 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 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.0%). 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) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.3% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 55 sales completed in BN7 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 190 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
What kind of market BN7 2 is
Only 55 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BN7 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the BN7 district median, BN7 2 sits 22% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around BN7 2
For renting purposes BN7 2 sits in Lewes. The ONS average private rent there is £1,323 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £363,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,323 a month (£15,876 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
BN7 2 (Cooksbridge): the questions that come up
Is BN7 2 (Cooksbridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN7 2 (Cooksbridge)?
Are property prices falling in BN7 2 (Cooksbridge)?
Are BN7 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BN7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 53 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BN7 district, not just BN7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, 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. 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.
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 BN7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BN7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN7 1 | £563,200 | 60 |
| 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 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BN7 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the BN7 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BN7 2 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 BN7 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BN7 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN7 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN7 2 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.