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Forest Row market report RH18 5
The RH18 5 (Forest Row) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,327 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH18 5 (Forest Row) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the RH18 5 (Forest Row) median at £515,000, down 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £645,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,930 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,327 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like RH18 5 is a single group of streets within RH18 (Forest Row), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RH18 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.
RH18 5 sold prices: where the market stands
21 sales were registered in RH18 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £515,000. The mean works out at £645,600, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in RH18 5
Per square metre, RH18 5 homes have averaged around £4,930 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RH18 5 81% above the country at large.
A typical RH18 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £515,000 | £515,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £457,500 | £468,440 | 61 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 43 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 52 |
| 2022 | £580,000 | £680,116 | 54 |
| 2021 | £530,000 | £671,048 | 87 |
| 2020 | £454,200 | £589,334 | 62 |
| 2019 | £435,000 | £570,181 | 52 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 51 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 55 |
| 2016 | £398,700 | £557,785 | 74 |
| 2015 | £365,000 | £515,745 | 73 |
| 2014 | £373,200 | £529,449 | 84 |
| 2013 | £322,500 | £464,045 | 56 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 60 |
| 2011 | £336,200 | £507,533 | 54 |
| 2010 | £315,200 | £494,315 | 68 |
| 2009 | £290,000 | £466,177 | 63 |
| 2008 | £376,500 | £617,163 | 70 |
| 2007 | £305,000 | £517,365 | 98 |
| 2006 | £252,500 | £438,308 | 88 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 73 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 97 |
| 2003 | £270,000 | £497,405 | 83 |
| 2002 | £230,000 | £432,743 | 111 |
| 2001 | £210,000 | £403,714 | 87 |
| 2000 | £163,000 | £319,888 | 73 |
| 1999 | £135,800 | £270,642 | 100 |
| 1998 | £118,000 | £238,191 | 112 |
| 1997 | £91,500 | £187,648 | 104 |
| 1996 | £98,500 | £207,732 | 97 |
| 1995 | £98,000 | £213,037 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical RH18 5 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £515,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RH18 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.0%). 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) | +12.6% | +9.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 21 RH18 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 89 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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 RH18 5
For renting purposes RH18 5 sits in Wealden. The ONS average private rent there is £1,266 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £899 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,096, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wealden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £515,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,266 a month (£15,192 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.
What kind of market RH18 5 is
This is a thin market: 21 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.
What people ask about RH18 5 (Forest Row)
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What happens to RH18 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in RH18 now
Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH18 district, not just RH18 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
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"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 RH18 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
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.
Zoom out to the full RH18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RH18 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RH18 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RH18 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RH18 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RH18 5 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.
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.