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RH18 local market report Forest Row

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,445 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH18 (Forest Row) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales data to March 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

RH18 is the postcode district covering Forest Row in Forest Row. 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.

What a home in RH18 sells for

The 2026 median in RH18 is £460,000, from 13 registered sales; the mean, £528,000, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so RH18 trades 68% above the country as a whole.

In cash terms the typical RH18 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £460,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 121%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

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.

Annualised returns

Period	Cash, per year	Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)	+8.2%	+8.2%
5 years (since 2021)	−2.8%	−6.8%
10 years (since 2016)	+1.5%	−1.6%
20 years (since 2006)	+3.0%	+0.4%

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

RH18 recorded 66 sales in the last 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 53 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 homes rent for around RH18

RH18 falls under Wealden, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,266 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.

Set against the £460,000 median sold price, £1,266 a month is £15,192 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.

Will RH18 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.

Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers

RH18 ranks 20 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.

Inside RH18, street group by street group

Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.

Sector	Median (latest)	Sales that year
RH18 5	£460,000	13

How RH18 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RH area, dearest first:

District	Median	5-year
RH3	£640,000	+7%
RH8	£600,000	+12%
RH17	£567,500	+0%
RH5	£552,500	+1%
RH2	£530,000	+6%
RH7	£530,000	+8%
RH20	£491,000	+0%
RH18 (this report)	£460,000	-13%
RH4	£450,000	+9%
RH6	£446,200	+5%
RH9	£445,000	+6%
RH1	£440,000	+19%
RH14	£416,000	-11%
RH13	£415,000	-6%
RH16	£411,000	+5%
RH19	£407,500	+6%
RH15	£406,200	+13%
RH12	£405,000	+5%
RH10	£399,000	+14%
RH11	£325,000	+10%

Dig further

See every individual RH18 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference RH18 price page. 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.

How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.