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Lindfield market report RH16, Haywards Heath
The standing RH16 (Lindfield) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 24,414 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH16 (Haywards Heath) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RH16 (Haywards Heath) is £412,000, from 269 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £467,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 24,414 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RH16 is the postcode district covering Haywards Heath, Lindfield in Haywards Heath. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where RH16 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 RH16 prices, from the sold record
269 sales were registered in RH16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £412,000. The mean works out at £467,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in RH16
The last five years of sales put RH16 at roughly £4,830 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RH16 45% above the national figure.
RH16'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 | £412,000 | £412,000 | 269 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 683 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 607 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 591 |
| 2022 | £419,000 | £491,325 | 806 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 999 |
| 2020 | £373,800 | £485,013 | 743 |
| 2019 | £385,000 | £504,643 | 809 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 753 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 791 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 841 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 812 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 904 |
| 2013 | £269,200 | £387,352 | 780 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 761 |
| 2011 | £242,000 | £365,327 | 628 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 577 |
| 2009 | £218,000 | £350,437 | 525 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 508 |
| 2007 | £231,600 | £392,858 | 1,006 |
| 2006 | £217,000 | £376,684 | 1,120 |
| 2005 | £203,200 | £361,614 | 804 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 926 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 882 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 1,079 |
| 2001 | £141,000 | £271,065 | 859 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 692 |
| 1999 | £97,000 | £193,316 | 841 |
| 1998 | £82,200 | £165,927 | 686 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 867 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 682 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 583 |
In cash terms the typical RH16 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £412,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 187%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RH16 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 (+21.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £667,500 against £243,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, RH16
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 | £667,500 | 68 | 5,796 |
| Semi-detached | £450,000 | 70 | 6,060 |
| Terraced | £380,000 | 55 | 4,750 |
| Flats | £243,500 | 76 | 7,808 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +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.
Sales activity in RH16
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 547 sales completed in RH16. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 921 sales a year before the financial crisis and 591 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.
The shape of the RH16 market
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, RH16 ranks 17 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Rents around RH16
RH16 falls under Mid Sussex, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,003 a month here against £2,200 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £412,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
What people ask about RH16 (Lindfield)
Is RH16 (Lindfield) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH16 (Lindfield)?
Are property prices falling in RH16 (Lindfield)?
What happens to RH16 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 is for sale in RH16 right now
Everything above is what homes in RH16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 143 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 45% above the RH16 median sold price.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the RH area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
RH16 ranks 12 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 RH16, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH16 1 | £420,600 | 43 |
| RH16 2 | £605,000 | 48 |
| RH16 3 | £352,500 | 74 |
| RH16 4 | £386,200 | 104 |
How RH16 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 | £415,000 | +14% |
| RH19 | £414,500 | +6% |
| RH16 (this report) | £412,000 | +4% |
| RH12 | £404,500 | +4% |
| RH10 | £400,000 | +13% |
| RH11 | £325,000 | +8% |
Before you sell in RH16: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RH16'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 RH16.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RH16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RH16 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.