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Ansty market report RH17 7, Haywards Heath
The standing RH17 7 (Ansty) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,181 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RH17 7 (Haywards Heath) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 RH17 7 (Haywards Heath) sold for £610,500 in 2026, the median of 39 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £638,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,170 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,181 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RH17 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RH17 (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 RH17 7 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 RH17 7
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in RH17 7 and the middle price, the median, is £610,500. The mean lands at £638,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in RH17 7
A square metre of RH17 7 home has cost about £5,170 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RH17 7 114% above the country at large.
A typical RH17 7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £610,500 | £610,500 | 39 |
| 2025 | £540,000 | £552,913 | 107 |
| 2024 | £573,800 | £610,067 | 80 |
| 2023 | £660,000 | £725,179 | 65 |
| 2022 | £595,000 | £697,705 | 101 |
| 2021 | £540,000 | £683,710 | 149 |
| 2020 | £490,000 | £635,785 | 132 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 106 |
| 2018 | £502,500 | £669,842 | 144 |
| 2017 | £486,000 | £662,855 | 133 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 133 |
| 2015 | £396,500 | £560,255 | 156 |
| 2014 | £355,000 | £503,630 | 117 |
| 2013 | £425,000 | £611,533 | 75 |
| 2012 | £380,000 | £559,313 | 93 |
| 2011 | £353,000 | £532,894 | 62 |
| 2010 | £470,000 | £737,081 | 69 |
| 2009 | £366,500 | £589,152 | 70 |
| 2008 | £361,000 | £591,755 | 45 |
| 2007 | £411,000 | £697,170 | 90 |
| 2006 | £347,500 | £603,216 | 114 |
| 2005 | £298,500 | £531,210 | 92 |
| 2004 | £310,000 | £563,021 | 97 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 98 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 127 |
| 2001 | £219,000 | £421,016 | 106 |
| 2000 | £208,500 | £409,181 | 84 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 106 |
| 1998 | £146,000 | £294,711 | 105 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 105 |
| 1996 | £128,500 | £271,001 | 103 |
| 1995 | £117,000 | £254,340 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical RH17 7 home went from £117,000 in 1995 to £610,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH17 7 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 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−24.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +13.1% | +10.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
RH17 7 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 101 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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.
Rents around RH17 7
RH17 7 falls under Mid Sussex, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,415 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £610,500 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.
The shape of the RH17 7 market
This is a thin market: 39 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: RH17 7 (Ansty)
Are property prices falling in RH17 7 (Ansty)?
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Are RH17 7 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RH17's current homes for sale
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Stone Quarry Road, Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath
- London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, West Sussex
- Stable Cottages, Cuckfield Park, Cuckfield, RH17
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RH17 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, RH area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RH17
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RH17, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH17 5 | £600,000 | 36 |
| RH17 6 | £547,600 | 23 |
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 7? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RH17 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RH17 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RH17 7 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 RH17 7.
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See every individual RH17 7 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.