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Lindfield market report RH16 4, Haywards Heath
The RH16 4 (Lindfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,465 HM Land Registry entries for RH16 4 (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 2026 median for RH16 4 (Haywards Heath) is £386,200, from 104 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £404,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,530 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,465 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like RH16 4 is a single group of streets within RH16 (Haywards Heath), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RH16 4 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 4 homes really sell for
In the RH16 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £386,200, from 104 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £404,200, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in RH16 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RH16 4 sales average about £4,530 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RH16 4 sits 36% above the national market.
A typical RH16 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £386,200 | £386,200 | 104 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 250 |
| 2024 | £388,700 | £413,268 | 224 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 205 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 355 |
| 2021 | £397,500 | £503,286 | 413 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 285 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 323 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 308 |
| 2017 | £368,000 | £501,915 | 317 |
| 2016 | £355,000 | £496,649 | 365 |
| 2015 | £296,500 | £418,955 | 297 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 347 |
| 2013 | £271,000 | £389,942 | 295 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 270 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 214 |
| 2010 | £247,000 | £387,360 | 191 |
| 2009 | £197,600 | £317,644 | 154 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 181 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 382 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 453 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 266 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 360 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 312 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 337 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 219 |
| 2000 | £109,400 | £214,698 | 184 |
| 1999 | £97,500 | £194,312 | 219 |
| 1998 | £84,000 | £169,560 | 151 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 191 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 151 |
| 1995 | £65,500 | £142,387 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical RH16 4 home went from £65,500 in 1995 to £386,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 171%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RH16 4 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 2001 (+25.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−9.6%). 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) | −8.0% | −10.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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 4
How many homes change hands
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.
RH16 4 recorded 104 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 228 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.
Rents around RH16 4
RH16 4 falls under Mid Sussex, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £386,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,415 a month (£16,980 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
RH16 4 (Lindfield): the questions that come up
Is RH16 4 (Lindfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH16 4 (Lindfield)?
Are property prices falling in RH16 4 (Lindfield)?
Will RH16 4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- The Orchard, Ardingly Road, Lindfield, RH16
- Wythwood, Haywards Heath, RH16
- Gatesmead, Haywards Heath
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 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.
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the RH area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £605,000 | 48 |
| RH16 3 | £352,500 | 74 |
Zoom out to the full RH16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RH16 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH16 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH16 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH16 4 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 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RH16 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RH16 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RH16 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.