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Ashurst Wood market report RH19 2, East Grinstead
The RH19 2 (Ashurst Wood) 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: 3,965 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RH19 2 (East Grinstead) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical RH19 2 (East Grinstead) home changed hands for £477,500 in 2026 (median of 44 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £569,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,980 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,965 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RH19 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RH19 (East Grinstead). 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 RH19 2 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 buyers actually paid in RH19 2
44 sales were registered in RH19 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £477,500. The mean works out at £569,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in RH19 2
By floor space, homes in RH19 2 have sold for about £4,980 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RH19 2 runs 68% above it.
RH19 2's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £477,500 | £477,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 115 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 131 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 96 |
| 2022 | £578,000 | £677,771 | 137 |
| 2021 | £482,200 | £610,527 | 154 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 92 |
| 2019 | £475,000 | £622,611 | 113 |
| 2018 | £457,500 | £609,856 | 116 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 133 |
| 2016 | £490,000 | £685,515 | 139 |
| 2015 | £429,500 | £606,884 | 134 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 141 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 111 |
| 2012 | £291,400 | £428,904 | 80 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 101 |
| 2010 | £292,500 | £458,715 | 102 |
| 2009 | £297,100 | £477,591 | 101 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 68 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 166 |
| 2006 | £290,000 | £503,403 | 141 |
| 2005 | £242,000 | £430,662 | 131 |
| 2004 | £237,000 | £430,438 | 143 |
| 2003 | £232,000 | £427,400 | 112 |
| 2002 | £207,000 | £389,469 | 201 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 125 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 134 |
| 1999 | £150,200 | £299,341 | 140 |
| 1998 | £135,000 | £272,507 | 145 |
| 1997 | £107,500 | £220,461 | 168 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 150 |
| 1995 | £89,400 | £194,342 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical RH19 2 home went from £89,400 in 1995 to £477,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RH19 2 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 2014 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−13.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RH19 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 register shows 44 RH19 2 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 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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.
Reading the RH19 2 market
This is a thin market: 44 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. Within RH19, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around RH19 2
For renting purposes RH19 2 sits in Mid Sussex. The ONS average private rent there is £1,415 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,003 a month here against £2,200 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Mid Sussex
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,415 a month is £16,980 a year, which against the £477,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about RH19 2 (Ashurst Wood)
How much did a house sell for in RH19 2 (Ashurst Wood)?
Are property prices falling in RH19 2 (Ashurst Wood)?
Is RH19 2 (Ashurst Wood) a good place to buy a house?
Are RH19 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RH19's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 97 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RH19 district, not just RH19 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
- Harwoods Lane, East Grinstead, RH19
- Plawhatch Lane, Sharpthorne, RH19
- London Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every RH19 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.
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%) | — |
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
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 RH19
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RH19's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RH19 1 | £308,500 | 58 |
| RH19 3 | £386,500 | 64 |
| RH19 4 | £485,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full RH19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RH19 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RH19 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RH19 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the RH19 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RH19 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RH19 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RH19 2.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RH19 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RH19 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.