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Forest Row market report RH18
The RH18 (Forest Row) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,327 registered sales in RH18 (Forest Row) 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.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 21 registered 2026 sales put the RH18 (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.
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.
Where RH18 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 RH18 homes really sell for
In the RH18 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £515,000, from 21 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £645,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in RH18
By floor space, homes in RH18 have sold for about £4,930 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RH18 81% above the country at large.
RH18's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £515,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% 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 RH18 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.
The long view: annualised growth
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £775,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, RH18
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 | £670,000 | 12 | 1,017 |
| Semi-detached | £500,000 | 7 | 601 |
| Terraced | £410,000 (2025) | – | 362 |
| Flats | £200,000 (2025) | – | 334 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
RH18 recorded 46 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 46 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.
The rental side of RH18
The local authority for RH18 is Wealden, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
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.
The shape of the RH18 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RH18 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 (Forest Row)
Are property prices falling in RH18 (Forest Row)?
Is RH18 (Forest Row) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RH18 (Forest Row)?
Are RH18 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
RH18's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RH18 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 60% above the RH18 median sold price.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Colchester Vale, Forest Row, East Sussex
- Priory Road, Forest Row, East Sussex
- London Road, Forest Row, East Sussex
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 RH18 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RH area, 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
RH18 ranks 17 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 RH18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RH18 5 | £515,000 | 21 |
How RH18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RH8 | £597,500 | +9% |
| RH17 | £585,000 | +3% |
| RH3 | £577,500 | -4% |
| RH7 | £570,000 | +16% |
| RH2 | £550,000 | +10% |
| RH5 | £550,000 | -2% |
| RH18 (this report) | £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 RH18? 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'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.
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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.