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Ansty market report RH17 5, Haywards Heath
The standing RH17 5 (Ansty) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,596 HM Land Registry entries for RH17 5 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for RH17 5 (Haywards Heath) is £600,000, from 36 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £735,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,230 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,596 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 RH17 5 is a single group of streets within RH17 (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 RH17 5 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 a home in RH17 5 sells for
36 sales were registered in RH17 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £600,000. The mean works out at £735,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in RH17 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RH17 5 costs about £5,230 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 RH17 5 111% above the country at large.
The price of a typical RH17 5 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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £690,000 | £706,500 | 97 |
| 2024 | £620,000 | £659,187 | 84 |
| 2023 | £666,000 | £731,771 | 99 |
| 2022 | £664,000 | £778,616 | 118 |
| 2021 | £628,000 | £795,129 | 183 |
| 2020 | £625,000 | £810,950 | 103 |
| 2019 | £612,500 | £802,841 | 118 |
| 2018 | £600,000 | £799,811 | 111 |
| 2017 | £587,500 | £801,291 | 96 |
| 2016 | £465,000 | £650,540 | 121 |
| 2015 | £445,000 | £628,785 | 101 |
| 2014 | £425,000 | £602,937 | 134 |
| 2013 | £450,000 | £647,505 | 92 |
| 2012 | £400,000 | £588,750 | 95 |
| 2011 | £348,700 | £526,403 | 74 |
| 2010 | £386,500 | £606,132 | 72 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 60 |
| 2008 | £392,500 | £643,390 | 58 |
| 2007 | £345,000 | £585,216 | 129 |
| 2006 | £336,200 | £583,600 | 142 |
| 2005 | £298,700 | £531,566 | 116 |
| 2004 | £310,000 | £563,021 | 135 |
| 2003 | £270,000 | £497,405 | 103 |
| 2002 | £228,500 | £429,921 | 143 |
| 2001 | £220,500 | £423,900 | 166 |
| 2000 | £205,000 | £402,313 | 127 |
| 1999 | £165,000 | £328,836 | 133 |
| 1998 | £159,800 | £322,568 | 144 |
| 1997 | £121,100 | £248,352 | 128 |
| 1996 | £104,000 | £219,331 | 147 |
| 1995 | £97,000 | £210,863 | 131 |
In cash terms the typical RH17 5 home went from £97,000 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 185%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RH17 5 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 1998 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.0%). 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) | −13.0% | −15.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 36 RH17 5 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 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 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.
What tenants pay around RH17 5
The local authority for RH17 5 is Mid Sussex, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £600,000 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.
How RH17 5 trades
This is a thin market: 36 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. 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.
Asked and answered: RH17 5 (Ansty)
Are property prices falling in RH17 5 (Ansty)?
Is RH17 5 (Ansty) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to RH17 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in RH17 today
The live side of the market holds 121 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH17 district, not just RH17 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Stone Quarry Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath
- London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, West Sussex
- Stable Cottages, Cuckfield Park, Cuckfield, RH17
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 RH17 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RH area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 RH17
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RH17, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH17 6 | £547,600 | 23 |
| RH17 7 | £610,500 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full RH17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH17 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RH17 5? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RH17 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RH17 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RH17 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RH17 5 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.