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Lindfield market report RH16 1, Haywards Heath
The RH16 1 (Lindfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,843 HM Land Registry entries for RH16 1 (Haywards Heath), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RH16 1 (Haywards Heath) sold for £420,600 in 2026, the median of 43 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £545,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,130 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,843 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RH16 1 is one sector of RH16 (Haywards Heath): 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 RH16 1 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.
The going rate for a home in RH16 1
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in RH16 1 and the middle price, the median, is £420,600. The mean lands at £545,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in RH16 1
By floor space, homes in RH16 1 have sold for about £5,130 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RH16 1 trades 48% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RH16 1 home, 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 | £420,600 | £420,600 | 43 |
| 2025 | £515,000 | £527,315 | 129 |
| 2024 | £549,500 | £584,231 | 105 |
| 2023 | £462,500 | £508,175 | 103 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 131 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 171 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 117 |
| 2019 | £481,200 | £630,738 | 122 |
| 2018 | £387,500 | £516,545 | 122 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 153 |
| 2016 | £354,000 | £495,250 | 131 |
| 2015 | £383,500 | £541,886 | 180 |
| 2014 | £312,500 | £443,336 | 174 |
| 2013 | £280,500 | £403,612 | 110 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 135 |
| 2011 | £282,500 | £426,466 | 104 |
| 2010 | £295,000 | £462,636 | 129 |
| 2009 | £231,500 | £372,138 | 114 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 101 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 193 |
| 2006 | £236,000 | £409,666 | 208 |
| 2005 | £221,200 | £393,647 | 204 |
| 2004 | £199,200 | £361,786 | 178 |
| 2003 | £201,500 | £371,212 | 194 |
| 2002 | £160,500 | £301,979 | 264 |
| 2001 | £149,200 | £286,829 | 206 |
| 2000 | £125,700 | £246,686 | 142 |
| 1999 | £106,200 | £211,651 | 202 |
| 1998 | £94,500 | £190,755 | 187 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 204 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 163 |
| 1995 | £84,900 | £184,560 | 124 |
In cash terms the typical RH16 1 home went from £84,900 in 1995 to £420,600 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH16 1 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 2010 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.3%). 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) | −18.3% | −20.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 RH16 1
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.
The register shows 43 RH16 1 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 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
Reading the RH16 1 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RH16 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around RH16 1
For renting purposes RH16 1 sits in Mid Sussex. The ONS average private rent there is £1,415 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,003 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,200 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £420,600 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
RH16 1 (Lindfield): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in RH16 1 (Lindfield)?
Are property prices falling in RH16 1 (Lindfield)?
Is RH16 1 (Lindfield) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to RH16 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
RH16's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 143 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH16 district, not just RH16 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- The Orchard, Ardingly Road, Lindfield, RH16
- Wythwood, Haywards Heath, RH16
- Gatesmead, Haywards Heath
"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 RH16 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.
What another bedroom costs in RH
Real sold prices by size across the RH 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
RH area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RH16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RH16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH16 2 | £605,000 | 48 |
| RH16 3 | £352,500 | 74 |
| RH16 4 | £386,200 | 104 |
Zoom out to the full RH16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH16 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RH16 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RH16 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RH16 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RH16 1 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 RH16 1.
Go deeper
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See every individual RH16 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.