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Ditchling Common market report RH15, Burgess Hill
The RH15 (Ditchling Common) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 21,536 registered sales in RH15 (Burgess Hill) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical RH15 (Burgess Hill) home changed hands for £415,000 in 2026 (median of 199 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £431,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,700 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,536 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RH15 is a postcode district covering Burgess Hill, Ditchling Common in Burgess Hill. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where RH15 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 buyers actually paid in RH15
The RH15 median stands at £415,000 for 2026, built from 199 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £431,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in RH15
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RH15 costs about £4,700 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RH15 46% above the country at large.
A typical RH15 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 199 |
| 2025 | £403,800 | £413,456 | 632 |
| 2024 | £388,500 | £413,055 | 576 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 522 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 591 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 762 |
| 2020 | £348,000 | £451,537 | 557 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 730 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 628 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 616 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 584 |
| 2015 | £285,500 | £403,412 | 626 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 676 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 649 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 563 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 502 |
| 2010 | £228,800 | £358,817 | 484 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 480 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 384 |
| 2007 | £231,500 | £392,688 | 783 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 812 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 623 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 771 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 794 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 845 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 844 |
| 2000 | £115,500 | £226,669 | 734 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 804 |
| 1998 | £89,500 | £180,662 | 949 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 1,107 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 956 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 753 |
In cash terms the typical RH15 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 181%, 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 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH15 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 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £572,800 against £225,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, RH15
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 | £572,800 | 51 | 5,703 |
| Semi-detached | £422,500 | 70 | 6,471 |
| Terraced | £335,000 | 49 | 6,232 |
| Flats | £225,000 | 29 | 3,130 |
The turnover behind the prices
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 413 RH15 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 776 sales a year before the financial crisis and 504 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of RH15
The local authority for RH15 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 £415,000 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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 (Ditchling Common)
To the person who searched rental valuation in burgess hill
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £415,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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.
What people ask about RH15 (Ditchling Common)
Are property prices falling in RH15 (Ditchling Common)?
Is RH15 (Ditchling Common) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH15 (Ditchling Common)?
Will RH15 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in RH15 now
Everything above is what homes in RH15 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 49 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the RH15 median sold price.
43% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RH prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RH area. 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 | — | £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
RH15 ranks 2 of 20 in the RH 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 RH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside RH15, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RH15 0 | £441,000 | 96 |
| RH15 8 | £382,500 | 48 |
| RH15 9 | £375,000 | 55 |
How RH15 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RH8 | £597,500 | +9% |
| RH17 | £585,000 | +3% |
| RH3 | £577,500 | -4% |
| RH7 | £570,000 | +16% |
| RH2 | £550,000 | +10% |
| RH5 | £550,000 | -2% |
| RH18 | £515,000 | -3% |
| RH20 | £500,000 | +1% |
| RH4 | £450,000 | +6% |
| RH1 | £440,000 | +12% |
| RH9 | £437,500 | +4% |
| RH6 | £430,000 | +1% |
| RH14 | £430,000 | -6% |
| RH13 | £425,000 | -4% |
| RH15 (this report) | £415,000 | +14% |
| RH19 | £414,500 | +6% |
| RH16 | £412,000 | +4% |
| RH12 | £404,500 | +4% |
| RH10 | £400,000 | +13% |
| RH11 | £325,000 | +8% |
Before you sell in RH15: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RH15, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RH15's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RH15 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every RH15 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.