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Cooksbridge market report BN7, Lewes
The standing BN7 (Cooksbridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 11,327 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BN7 (Lewes) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in BN7 (Lewes) sold for £465,000 in 2026, the median of 137 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £530,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,690 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,327 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN7 is the postcode district covering Lewes, Cooksbridge, East Chiltington in Lewes. 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 BN7 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 sells for
Across 137 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN7 home went for £465,000. The mean is £530,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BN7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BN7 costs about £5,690 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BN7 sits 63% above the national market.
BN7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 137 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 318 |
| 2024 | £485,000 | £515,655 | 294 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 274 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 337 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 409 |
| 2020 | £437,500 | £567,665 | 250 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 272 |
| 2018 | £376,500 | £501,882 | 269 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 278 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 301 |
| 2015 | £335,000 | £473,355 | 321 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 395 |
| 2013 | £312,000 | £448,937 | 317 |
| 2012 | £292,500 | £430,523 | 296 |
| 2011 | £273,800 | £413,333 | 296 |
| 2010 | £284,000 | £445,385 | 301 |
| 2009 | £248,000 | £398,662 | 331 |
| 2008 | £253,500 | £415,540 | 272 |
| 2007 | £282,800 | £479,708 | 446 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 547 |
| 2005 | £226,000 | £402,189 | 364 |
| 2004 | £227,000 | £412,276 | 454 |
| 2003 | £187,500 | £345,420 | 411 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 453 |
| 2001 | £149,500 | £287,406 | 419 |
| 2000 | £139,200 | £273,180 | 390 |
| 1999 | £104,500 | £208,263 | 487 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 441 |
| 1997 | £75,200 | £154,220 | 472 |
| 1996 | £72,500 | £152,899 | 443 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 332 |
In cash terms the typical BN7 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BN7 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 (+33.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £855,000 against £225,000 for a flat, 3.8 times the price.
Median by property type, BN7
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 | £855,000 | 24 | 1,957 |
| Semi-detached | £487,500 | 32 | 2,831 |
| Terraced | £459,000 | 54 | 4,282 |
| Flats | £225,000 | 27 | 2,257 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.1% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BN7
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 265 sales completed in BN7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 436 sales a year before the financial crisis and 272 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.
Rents around BN7
For renting purposes BN7 sits in Lewes. The ONS average private rent there is £1,323 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £917 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,158 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Lewes
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £465,000 median sold price, £1,323 a month is £15,876 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
How BN7 trades
Among the 30 measurable districts of its area, BN7 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about BN7 (Cooksbridge)
How much did a house sell for in BN7 (Cooksbridge)?
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Are BN7 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in BN7 right now
Everything above is what homes in BN7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 53 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the BN7 median sold price.
42% 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" 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 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
Real sold prices by size across the BN area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN7 ranks 21 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.
BN area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BN7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BN7 1 | £563,200 | 60 |
| BN7 2 | £363,000 | 55 |
| BN7 3 | £612,500 | 22 |
How BN7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £510,000 | +6% |
| BN7 (this report) | £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 BN7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BN7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BN7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BN7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN7.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BN7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BN7 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.
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.