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Lindfield market report RH16 2, Haywards Heath
The RH16 2 (Lindfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,706 registered sales in RH16 2 (Haywards Heath) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the RH16 2 (Haywards Heath) median at £605,000, up 39% on five years earlier, with a mean of £670,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,500 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,706 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RH16 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RH16 (Haywards Heath). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where RH16 2 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 RH16 2 homes really sell for
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in RH16 2 and the middle price, the median, is £605,000. The mean lands at £670,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in RH16 2
By floor space, homes in RH16 2 have sold for about £5,500 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RH16 2 112% above the national figure.
RH16 2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £605,000 | £605,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £560,000 | £573,391 | 138 |
| 2024 | £530,000 | £563,499 | 142 |
| 2023 | £570,000 | £626,291 | 128 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 138 |
| 2021 | £435,500 | £551,399 | 207 |
| 2020 | £445,000 | £577,397 | 165 |
| 2019 | £475,000 | £622,611 | 188 |
| 2018 | £440,000 | £586,528 | 159 |
| 2017 | £457,500 | £623,984 | 142 |
| 2016 | £403,700 | £564,780 | 162 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 170 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 167 |
| 2013 | £335,000 | £482,032 | 153 |
| 2012 | £300,000 | £441,563 | 145 |
| 2011 | £325,000 | £490,625 | 160 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 113 |
| 2009 | £275,000 | £442,065 | 115 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 83 |
| 2007 | £327,500 | £555,531 | 155 |
| 2006 | £313,800 | £544,717 | 200 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 140 |
| 2004 | £280,000 | £508,535 | 153 |
| 2003 | £260,000 | £478,983 | 159 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 188 |
| 2001 | £176,500 | £339,312 | 168 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 128 |
| 1999 | £131,000 | £261,076 | 171 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 112 |
| 1997 | £101,900 | £208,976 | 170 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 136 |
| 1995 | £79,000 | £171,734 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical RH16 2 home went from £79,000 in 1995 to £605,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 252%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 6% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RH16 2 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 2022 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RH16 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.0% | +5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.8% | +1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RH16 2
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in RH16 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 161 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 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.
How RH16 2 trades
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the RH16 district median, RH16 2 sits 47% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around RH16 2
For renting purposes RH16 2 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.
Set against the £605,000 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.
Common questions on RH16 2 (Lindfield)
Are property prices falling in RH16 2 (Lindfield)?
Is RH16 2 (Lindfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH16 2 (Lindfield)?
Will RH16 2 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 10% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
RH16's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 143 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH16 district, not just RH16 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in RH
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. 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.
RH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RH16
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RH16, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH16 1 | £420,600 | 43 |
| 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.
Before you sell in RH16 2: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH16 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH16 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH16 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RH16 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RH16 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RH16 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RH16 2 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.
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.