BN3 house prices are built from 60,535 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 £201,000. 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%.
Median price paid
£201,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+26.2%
Change in real terms
-9.6%
Median per m²
£2,990
HM Land Registry60,535 sales13,217 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026
Section 01
How BN3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median BN3 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 | £58,500 | £129,898 |
| 2000s | 10 | £185,000 | £337,016 |
| 2010s | 10 | £284,950 | £401,780 |
| 2020s | 7 | £430,000 | £439,348 |
The highest yearly median on record for BN3 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 Meads Avenue | 26 Jun 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 17 Rothbury Road | 25 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £890,000 | £890,000 |
| 13 Mansfield Road | 22 Jun 2026 | Detached | £885,000 | £885,000 |
| 62 ASHLEY COURT Grand Avenue | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 30 Kendal Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| FLAT 14 LANSDOWNE COURT, 25 Lansdowne Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 131 Montgomery Street | 17 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £592,500 | £592,500 |
| 23 Orchard Gardens | 15 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 38 Lansdowne Street | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 5 Haddington Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £612,500 | £612,500 |
| 3 Court Farm Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 27 CONISTON COURT Holland Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| FLAT 1 ESSEX HOUSE, 8 St Aubyns Gardens | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| FLAT 7 BERKELEY COURT, 51 Davigdor Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £200,000 |
| 6 the Paddock | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £660,000 | £660,000 |
| 41 Hangleton Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 30 Edward Avenue | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £585,000 | £585,000 |
| 94 Hangleton Valley Drive | 11 Jun 2026 | Detached | £540,000 | £540,000 |
| 22C Cambridge Grove | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £336,500 | £336,500 |
| 117 Poplar Avenue | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £418,000 | £418,000 |
| FLAT 2 22 Palmeira Square | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £730,000 | £730,000 |
| FLAT 21 189 Kingsway | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 28 LANCASTER COURT Kingsway | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 14 Byron Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £610,000 | £610,000 |
| 64 Coombe Lea | 3 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £428,000 | £428,000 |
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 BN3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 Meads Avenue | £95,750 (1997) | £600,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 17 Rothbury Road | £129,000 (1999) | £890,000 (2026) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 13 Mansfield Road | £89,000 (1996) | £885,000 (2026) | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 62 ASHLEY COURT Grand Avenue | £443,000 (2017) | £650,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 14 LANSDOWNE COURT, 25 Lansdowne Road | £157,995 (2001) | £275,000 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.5% |
| 30 Kendal Road | £89,995 (1999) | £625,000 (2026) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 131 Montgomery Street | £140,000 (2000) | £592,500 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 38 Lansdowne Street | £235,000 (2015) | £325,000 (2026) | +3.0% | -0.2% |
| 27 CONISTON COURT Holland Road | £112,000 (2009) | £275,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 1 ESSEX HOUSE, 8 St Aubyns Gardens | £108,500 (2011) | £215,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 7 BERKELEY COURT, 51 Davigdor Road | £33,500 (1995) | £200,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 5 Haddington Street | £685,000 (2022) | £612,500 (2026) | -2.8% | -6.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. BN3 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 | 37,976 | 62.7% | £167,500 | £1,350 – £2,000,000 |
| Terraced | 9,075 | 15.0% | £250,000 | £100 – £7,500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8,866 | 14.6% | £297,000 | £500 – £2,680,000 |
| Detached | 4,618 | 7.6% | £465,000 | £5,000 – £3,650,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in BN3
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 BN3, 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 66 m² | about 710 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 49 m² | about 527 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 90 m² | about 969 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 39.8% | 5,300 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 7.4% | 984 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in BN3
38,360 of the sales on record are leasehold and 22,175 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 38,360 | 63.4% | £166,500 |
| Freehold | 22,175 | 36.6% | £307,000 |
| New build | 1,702 | 2.8% | £198,000 |
| Existing home | 58,833 | 97.2% | £201,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -1.5%. 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 2,562 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 BN3
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 311 | 0.2% |
| B | 11,346 | 6.7% |
| C | 59,144 | 35.1% |
| D | 66,545 | 39.5% |
| E | 23,998 | 14.2% |
| F | 5,409 | 3.2% |
| G | 1,700 | 1.0% |
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 £201,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.82% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around BN3
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Newman Catholic School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 2,657 |
| Blatchington Mill School | Secondary | Community school | 1,622 |
| Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | Community school | 941 |
| King's School | Secondary | Free schools | 925 |
| Hove Junior School | Primary | Community school | 671 |
| Goldstone Primary School | Primary | Community school | 659 |
| St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 648 |
| Bilingual Primary School – Brighton & Hove | Primary | Free schools | 614 |
| Brunswick Primary School | Primary | Community school | 586 |
| West Hove Infant School | Primary | Community school | 506 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Aldrington Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Hove Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Portslade Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Preston Park Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
Section 09
How BN3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. BN3 sits above that national figure — +27.6%.
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 60,535 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.
BN3 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside BN3
- BN3 1£175,000 median
- BN3 2£190,000 median
- BN3 3£174,000 median
- BN3 4£222,500 median
- BN3 5£220,000 median
- BN3 6£305,000 median
- BN3 7£237,250 median
- BN3 8£212,500 median
The closest districts
- BN12.8 km · £205,000
- BN25.5 km · £198,000
- BN1510.4 km · £171,000
- BN610.8 km · £300,000
- BN713.2 km · £250,000
- RH1514.0 km · £215,000
- BN1114.2 km · £147,000
- BN1414.4 km · £187,500
This district mostly covers Hove.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in BN3?
The median price paid in BN3 across every sale on the register is £201,000. 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 BN3?
60,535 sales are on record for BN3, 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 BN3 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 BN3 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 BN3?
£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, “BN3 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.