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Ditchling Common market report RH15 9, Burgess Hill
The standing RH15 9 (Ditchling Common) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,023 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH15 9 (Burgess Hill) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in RH15 9 (Burgess Hill) came in at £375,000, out of 55 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £364,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,580 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,023 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like RH15 9 is a single group of streets within RH15 (Burgess Hill), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RH15 9 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 RH15 9 prices, from the sold record
In the RH15 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £375,000, from 55 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £364,600, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in RH15 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RH15 9 costs about £4,580 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RH15 9 32% above the national figure.
RH15 9'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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £387,500 | £396,766 | 144 |
| 2024 | £365,000 | £388,070 | 119 |
| 2023 | £367,800 | £404,122 | 116 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 144 |
| 2021 | £355,200 | £449,729 | 178 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 127 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 181 |
| 2018 | £323,100 | £430,698 | 123 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 157 |
| 2016 | £307,100 | £429,636 | 138 |
| 2015 | £292,500 | £413,303 | 200 |
| 2014 | £270,500 | £383,752 | 199 |
| 2013 | £243,000 | £349,653 | 189 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 132 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 112 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 111 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 132 |
| 2008 | £241,000 | £395,050 | 97 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 223 |
| 2006 | £216,500 | £375,816 | 215 |
| 2005 | £207,000 | £368,377 | 168 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 245 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 222 |
| 2002 | £154,500 | £290,690 | 262 |
| 2001 | £136,500 | £262,414 | 249 |
| 2000 | £121,200 | £237,855 | 210 |
| 1999 | £97,500 | £194,312 | 202 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 325 |
| 1997 | £89,000 | £182,521 | 382 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 382 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 284 |
In cash terms the typical RH15 9 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, 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 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH15 9 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 (+24.3% 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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.2% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in RH15 9
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.
RH15 9 recorded 55 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 116 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.
What tenants pay around RH15 9
For renting purposes RH15 9 sits in Mid Sussex. The ONS average private rent there is £1,415 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, which against the £375,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the RH15 9 market
Only 55 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RH15 9 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 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Real searches this page gets asked
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as RH15 9ND or RH15 9RD. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
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 9 (Ditchling Common)
Is RH15 9 (Ditchling Common) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH15 9 (Ditchling Common)?
Are property prices falling in RH15 9 (Ditchling Common)?
Will RH15 9 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
RH15's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 49 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH15 district, not just RH15 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 43% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every RH15 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 RH: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RH 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, RH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RH15
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RH15, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH15 0 | £441,000 | 96 |
| RH15 8 | £382,500 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full RH15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RH15 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RH15 9'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 RH15 9.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RH15 9. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RH15 9 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.
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.