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Denton market report BN9, Newhaven
The BN9 (Denton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,903 HM Land Registry entries for BN9 (Newhaven), 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BN9 (Newhaven) sold for £315,000 in 2026, the median of 73 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £316,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,520 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,903 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BN9 is the postcode district covering Newhaven, Denton, Piddinghoe in Newhaven. 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 BN9 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.
Today's BN9 prices, from the sold record
Across 73 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BN9 home went for £315,000. The mean is £316,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in BN9
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BN9 sales average about £3,520 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BN9 11% above the national figure.
BN9's median sold price, 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 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £297,500 | £304,614 | 197 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 175 |
| 2023 | £288,500 | £316,991 | 148 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 219 |
| 2021 | £266,800 | £337,803 | 248 |
| 2020 | £255,000 | £330,868 | 167 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 181 |
| 2018 | £239,000 | £318,592 | 216 |
| 2017 | £244,000 | £332,792 | 212 |
| 2016 | £237,500 | £332,265 | 239 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £303,795 | 226 |
| 2014 | £193,500 | £274,514 | 254 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 210 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 189 |
| 2011 | £173,200 | £261,465 | 130 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 163 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 153 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 156 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 406 |
| 2006 | £159,200 | £276,351 | 382 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 214 |
| 2004 | £152,500 | £276,970 | 367 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 316 |
| 2002 | £123,000 | £231,423 | 469 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 433 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 348 |
| 1999 | £65,500 | £130,538 | 346 |
| 1998 | £57,200 | £115,462 | 306 |
| 1997 | £54,200 | £111,153 | 308 |
| 1996 | £46,000 | £97,012 | 251 |
| 1995 | £45,500 | £98,910 | 201 |
In cash terms the typical BN9 home went from £45,500 in 1995 to £315,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 218%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BN9 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 2002 (+29.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.9% | +3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,000 against £213,000 for a flat, 1.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BN9
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 | £350,000 | 15 | 1,385 |
| Semi-detached | £345,000 | 25 | 2,252 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 22 | 2,836 |
| Flats | £213,000 | 11 | 1,430 |
Sales activity in BN9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BN9 recorded 157 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 367 sales a year before the financial crisis and 162 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around BN9
For renting purposes BN9 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.
Against the £315,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,323 a month (£15,876 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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.
What people ask about BN9 (Denton)
Are property prices falling in BN9 (Denton)?
Is BN9 (Denton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BN9 (Denton)?
What happens to BN9 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BN9 right now
Everything above is what homes in BN9 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 23 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the BN9 median sold price.
30% 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 BN9 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BN prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BN area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BN9 ranks 1 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.
Winners and losers across the BN area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BN9, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN9 0 | £327,500 | 20 |
| BN9 9 | £300,000 | 53 |
How BN9 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BN6 | £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 (this report) | £315,000 | +18% |
| BN27 | £300,000 | -3% |
Selling in BN9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BN9's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BN9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BN9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BN9 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.