Hove house prices

Hove house prices are built from 60,571 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £200,202. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +26.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.6%.

HM Land Registry60,571 sales13,217 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Hove house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Hove is £445,000 in 2023; the lowest is £49,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £49,000 to £429,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £108,803, so the real change over the whole record is +294.3% — about +4.52% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +26.2% in cash against -9.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Hove values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hove is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 13,325 certificates cover Hove, and their median floor area is 66 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -13.2%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

38,387 of the sales on record are leasehold and 22,184 freehold — 63.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £166,500 and the median freehold sale £307,000 — a gap of +84.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.2%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 2,646 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Brighton and Hove, 42.0% of 168,453 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Brighton and Hove at £1,812 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,191 for a one-bedroom home and £1,799 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £200,202 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.86% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BN3, 448 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 135 violent, 8 burglary, 17 vehicle-related and 107 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times busier.

Against the 277,103 residents the 2021 census counted in Brighton and Hove, that is 1.62 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 277,103 residents in Brighton and Hove across 121,402 households. 52.2% of those households own their home and 47.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a BN3 postcode: 10 primary, 4 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hove sits above that national figure — +27.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,990 per square metre, across 13,217 of the 60,571 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £100 to £7,500,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Hove sits in Brighton and Hove, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Brighton and Hove at 10.6 times median local earnings of £39,137 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Hove

• The Drive1,517 sales
• Kingsway1,496 sales
• New Church Road1,234 sales
• Lansdowne Place1,176 sales
• Wilbury Road1,012 sales
• Holland Road969 sales
• Cromwell Road866 sales
• St Aubyns861 sales
• Brunswick Square766 sales
• Furze Hill761 sales
• Westbourne Street746 sales
• Palmeira Avenue696 sales
• Sackville Road685 sales
• Brunswick Place667 sales
• Portland Road659 sales
• Grand Avenue631 sales
• Brunswick Terrace620 sales
• Eaton Gardens612 sales
• Davigdor Road585 sales
• First Avenue539 sales
• Lansdowne Street513 sales
• Goldstone Villas506 sales
• Hangleton Road505 sales
• Ventnor Villas505 sales
• Denmark Villas497 sales
• Eaton Road493 sales
• Waterloo Street474 sales
• Tisbury Road469 sales
• Cambridge Road468 sales
• Goldstone Road459 sales
• Livingstone Road448 sales
• Adelaide Crescent437 sales
• Salisbury Road421 sales
• Brunswick Road419 sales
• Old Shoreham Road416 sales
• Hova Villas388 sales
• Montgomery Street376 sales
• Nevill Road370 sales
• Selborne Road370 sales
• Second Avenue362 sales
• Lorna Road361 sales
• St Leonards Avenue360 sales
• Goldstone Crescent351 sales
• Medina Villas349 sales
• Clarendon Road344 sales
• Fourth Avenue342 sales
• Church Road316 sales
• Cowper Street316 sales
• St Catherines Terrace304 sales
• Wordsworth Street304 sales
• Nevill Avenue302 sales
• Clarendon Villas289 sales
• Queens Gardens289 sales
• Coleridge Street283 sales
• Wilbury Avenue281 sales
• Elm Drive276 sales
• Shirley Street276 sales
• Third Avenue270 sales
• Westbourne Villas270 sales
• Albany Villas266 sales

Postcode districts covering Hove

• BN3£201,000 median

What is the average house price in Hove?

The median price paid in Hove across every sale on the register is £200,202. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Hove?

60,571 sales are on record for Hove, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Hove house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +26.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Hove house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £445,000, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Hove?

£2,990 per square metre, from the 13,217 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Hove house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.