BN23 house prices are built from 21,390 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £172,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +20.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.7%.
Median price paid
£172,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+20.5%
Change in real terms
-13.7%
Median per m²
£2,333
HM Land Registry21,390 sales5,159 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How BN23 prices moved
The chart tracks the median BN23 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £57,287 | £127,204 |
| 2000s | 10 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 10 | £199,950 | £281,930 |
| 2020s | 7 | £283,375 | £289,535 |
The highest yearly median on record for BN23 is £305,500 in 2022; the lowest is £49,995 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £49,995 to £283,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,013, so the real change over the whole record is +155.2% — about +3.07% 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: +20.5% in cash against -13.7% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Mountbatten Drive | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 20 Foxglove Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 14 HEREFORD COURT Langney Rise | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £130,000 |
| 25 Hodcombe Close | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £263,000 | £263,000 |
| 30 Snowdon Close | 16 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £113,000 | £113,000 |
| 1 Heron Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 9 Michelham Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £281,500 | £281,500 |
| 9 Blakes Way | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 97 Collingwood Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 6 Raleigh Close | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £358,000 | £358,000 |
| 10 Jervis Avenue | 3 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £279,000 | £279,000 |
| 26 Caburn Close | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £316,000 | £316,000 |
| 45 St Kitts Drive | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 22 Nuthatch Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 2 Kingston Quay | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £410,000 | £410,000 |
| 208 Macquarie Quay | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 33 Pembury Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £267,000 | £267,000 |
| FLAT 31 12 San Diego Way | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 5 Queens Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £128,571 | £128,571 |
| 28 Briar Place | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 10 Columbus Drive | 26 May 2026 | Detached | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 26 Princes Road | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £312,500 | £312,500 |
| 57 the Rising | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| FLAT 10 PALOMAR COURT, 4 Midway Quay | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 79 Tolkien Road | 21 May 2026 | Detached | £368,000 | £368,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 BN23 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 HEREFORD COURT Langney Rise | £31,950 (1999) | £130,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 30 Mountbatten Drive | £365,000 (2022) | £295,000 (2026) | -5.2% | -8.6% |
| 20 Foxglove Road | £134,950 (2007) | £275,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.8% |
| 30 Snowdon Close | £90,000 (2006) | £113,000 (2026) | +1.1% | -1.7% |
| 25 Hodcombe Close | £81,500 (2000) | £263,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 97 Collingwood Close | £58,000 (1998) | £150,000 (2026) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| 9 Michelham Close | £125,000 (2004) | £281,500 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 1 Heron Close | £59,000 (1997) | £285,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 9 Blakes Way | £128,000 (2011) | £170,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 6 Raleigh Close | £130,000 (2003) | £358,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 Jervis Avenue | £155,000 (2005) | £279,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 26 Caburn Close | £69,950 (1997) | £316,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. BN23 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 6,467 | 30.2% | £164,950 | £8,400 – £1,265,000 |
| Terraced | 6,065 | 28.4% | £167,000 | £11,000 – £925,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4,732 | 22.1% | £167,000 | £10,000 – £835,000 |
| Detached | 4,126 | 19.3% | £211,000 | £25,000 – £2,150,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in BN23
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,194 certificates cover BN23, and their median floor area is 76 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — 0.0%. 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 76 m² | about 818 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 64 m² | about 689 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 89 m² | about 958 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 17.3% | 551 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 2.2% | 69 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in BN23
6,606 of the sales on record are leasehold and 14,784 freehold — 30.9% 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 £162,250 and the median freehold sale £177,000 — a gap of +9.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 6,606 | 30.9% | £162,250 |
| Freehold | 14,784 | 69.1% | £177,000 |
| New build | 3,434 | 16.1% | £169,998 |
| Existing home | 17,956 | 83.9% | £172,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.7%. 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 599 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.
Section 07
Living in BN23
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Eastbourne, 46.0% of 57,606 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 89 | 0.2% |
| B | 4,089 | 7.1% |
| C | 22,346 | 38.8% |
| D | 21,841 | 37.9% |
| E | 7,156 | 12.4% |
| F | 1,588 | 2.8% |
| G | 497 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Eastbourne at £1,164 a month as of Jun 2026 — £816 for a one-bedroom home and £1,300 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £172,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.12% 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 BN23, 178 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 50 violent, 2 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 57 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 101,686 residents the 2021 census counted in Eastbourne, that is 1.75 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around BN23
The 2021 census counted 101,686 residents in Eastbourne across 45,610 households. 60.3% of those households own their home and 39.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
7 state and independent schools have a BN23 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Catherine's College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,064 |
| The Turing School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 771 |
| West Rise Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 607 |
| Langney Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 465 |
| The Haven Church of England Methodist Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 418 |
| Shinewater Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| Tollgate Community Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 335 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Pevensey & Westham Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Pevensey Bay Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Eastbourne Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
Section 09
How BN23 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. BN23 sits above that national figure — +9.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,333 per square metre, across 5,159 of the 21,390 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 £8,400 to £2,150,000. 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.
BN23 sits in Eastbourne, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Eastbourne at 7.4 times median local earnings of £37,015 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside BN23
The closest districts
- BN222.2 km · £150,000
- BN213.8 km · £140,000
- BN205.0 km · £200,000
- BN278.9 km · £195,000
- TN3911.2 km · £190,000
- TN4013.1 km · £137,000
- BN2514.5 km · £197,000
- TN3817.8 km · £132,500
This district mostly covers Eastbourne.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in BN23?
The median price paid in BN23 across every sale on the register is £172,000. 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 BN23?
21,390 sales are on record for BN23, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have BN23 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +20.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were BN23 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £305,500, set in 2022. 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 BN23?
£2,333 per square metre, from the 5,159 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 19 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, “BN23 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.