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Ditchling Common market report RH15 8, Burgess Hill
The RH15 8 (Ditchling Common) 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: 7,837 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH15 8 (Burgess Hill) 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: 48 registered 2026 sales put the RH15 8 (Burgess Hill) median at £382,500, up 13% on five years earlier, with a mean of £394,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,750 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,837 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RH15 8 is one sector of RH15 (Burgess Hill): 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 RH15 8 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.
RH15 8 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in RH15 8 and the middle price, the median, is £382,500. The mean lands at £394,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RH15 8
The last five years of sales put RH15 8 at roughly £4,750 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RH15 8 34% above the country at large.
RH15 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 194 |
| 2024 | £371,000 | £394,449 | 186 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 146 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 171 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 238 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 163 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 200 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 172 |
| 2017 | £291,500 | £397,577 | 189 |
| 2016 | £284,500 | £398,018 | 186 |
| 2015 | £256,000 | £361,728 | 201 |
| 2014 | £238,000 | £337,645 | 253 |
| 2013 | £208,000 | £299,291 | 209 |
| 2012 | £219,500 | £323,077 | 192 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 171 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 201 |
| 2009 | £188,700 | £303,337 | 170 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 153 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 312 |
| 2006 | £196,200 | £340,578 | 348 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 248 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 307 |
| 2003 | £164,000 | £302,128 | 321 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 363 |
| 2001 | £121,800 | £234,154 | 350 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 305 |
| 1999 | £89,600 | £178,568 | 348 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 403 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 473 |
| 1996 | £64,800 | £136,660 | 357 |
| 1995 | £61,800 | £134,344 | 259 |
In cash terms the typical RH15 8 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 185%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RH15 8 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 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.1%). 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) | +4.8% | +2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in RH15 8
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
RH15 8 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 319 sales a year before the financial crisis and 149 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.
How RH15 8 trades
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RH15 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RH15, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around RH15 8
The local authority for RH15 8 is Mid Sussex, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,003 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,200, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Sussex
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £382,500 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
What people search before landing on RH15 8 (Ditchling Common)
These are the recorded searches for the wider RH15 report family, answered with this page's own figures.
Searches like rental valuation in burgess hill
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £382,500 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: RH15 8 (Ditchling Common)
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Will RH15 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What you could buy in RH15 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH15 district, not just RH15 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
43% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 RH15 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in RH
Real sold prices by size across the RH area, straight 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 | — | £450,000 | £610,000 (+36%) | £870,000 (+43%) | £1,237,500 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £405,000 (+25%) | £475,000 (+17%) | £606,500 (+28%) | £882,500 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £315,000 | £365,000 (+16%) | £410,000 (+12%) | £530,000 (+29%) | £720,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £206,436 | £270,000 (+31%) | £395,000 (+46%) | £545,000 (+38%) | — |
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
The spread across the RH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the RH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RH15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RH15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH15 0 | £441,000 | 96 |
| RH15 9 | £375,000 | 55 |
Zoom out to the full RH15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH15 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RH15 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH15 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH15 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH15 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RH15 8.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RH15 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RH15 8 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.