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Ansty market report RH17, Haywards Heath
The RH17 (Ansty) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 9,268 registered sales in RH17 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 98 registered 2026 sales put the RH17 (Haywards Heath) median at £585,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £651,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,110 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,268 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RH17 is the postcode district covering Ansty, Ardingly, Balcombe 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 RH17 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.
RH17 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for RH17 is £585,000, taken from 98 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £651,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in RH17
A square metre of RH17 home has cost about £5,110 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RH17 sits 105% above the national market.
The price of a typical RH17 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £585,000 | £585,000 | 98 |
| 2025 | £575,000 | £588,750 | 273 |
| 2024 | £573,800 | £610,067 | 226 |
| 2023 | £612,500 | £672,988 | 226 |
| 2022 | £635,000 | £744,610 | 300 |
| 2021 | £570,000 | £721,694 | 459 |
| 2020 | £540,000 | £700,661 | 339 |
| 2019 | £500,000 | £655,380 | 305 |
| 2018 | £512,500 | £683,172 | 341 |
| 2017 | £514,500 | £701,726 | 305 |
| 2016 | £440,000 | £615,564 | 327 |
| 2015 | £395,000 | £558,135 | 330 |
| 2014 | £390,000 | £553,283 | 334 |
| 2013 | £397,500 | £571,963 | 224 |
| 2012 | £390,000 | £574,031 | 240 |
| 2011 | £346,200 | £522,629 | 212 |
| 2010 | £387,500 | £607,700 | 205 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 191 |
| 2008 | £383,100 | £627,982 | 140 |
| 2007 | £351,000 | £595,394 | 324 |
| 2006 | £316,500 | £549,404 | 360 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 285 |
| 2004 | £295,000 | £535,778 | 328 |
| 2003 | £270,000 | £497,405 | 307 |
| 2002 | £235,800 | £443,656 | 370 |
| 2001 | £211,000 | £405,637 | 359 |
| 2000 | £193,900 | £380,529 | 286 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 324 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 341 |
| 1997 | £115,000 | £235,842 | 314 |
| 1996 | £109,500 | £230,931 | 315 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 280 |
In cash terms the typical RH17 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £585,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 169%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 21% 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 RH17 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 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.7%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £720,000 against £248,800 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, RH17
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 | £720,000 | 44 | 4,524 |
| Semi-detached | £570,000 | 28 | 2,485 |
| Terraced | £417,500 | 14 | 1,349 |
| Flats | £248,800 | 12 | 910 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 RH17
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 223 sales completed in RH17. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 327 sales a year before the financial crisis and 225 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 RH17 market
Among the 20 measurable districts of its area, RH17 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of RH17
For renting purposes RH17 sits in Mid Sussex. The ONS average private rent there is £1,415 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £585,000 median sold price, £1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, a gross yield of 2.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: RH17 (Ansty)
Is RH17 (Ansty) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH17 (Ansty)?
Are property prices falling in RH17 (Ansty)?
Are RH17 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
What is for sale in RH17 right now
Everything above is what homes in RH17 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 121 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 62% above the RH17 median sold price.
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
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the RH area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
RH17 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, RH area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RH17, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH17 5 | £600,000 | 36 |
| RH17 6 | £547,600 | 23 |
| RH17 7 | £610,500 | 39 |
How RH17 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RH8 | £597,500 | +9% |
| RH17 (this report) | £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 | £412,000 | +4% |
| RH12 | £404,500 | +4% |
| RH10 | £400,000 | +13% |
| RH11 | £325,000 | +8% |
Selling in RH17? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH17, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH17 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH17 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual RH17 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.
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.