Preston Drove, Brighton house prices are built from 344 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £249,973. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +58.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +14.5%.
Median price paid
£249,973
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+58.0%
Change in real terms
+14.5%
Median per m²
£3,000
HM Land Registry344 sales83 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Preston Drove, Brighton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Preston Drove, Brighton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £69,750 | £154,878 |
| 2000s | 10 | £235,000 | £428,101 |
| 2010s | 10 | £287,500 | £405,375 |
| 2020s | 6 | £400,000 | £408,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Preston Drove, Brighton is £885,000 in 2025; the lowest is £45,125 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £45,125 to £885,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £100,199, so the real change over the whole record is +802.4% — about +7.61% 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: +58.0% in cash against +14.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | 28 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £1,000,000 | £1,000,000 |
| 127 | 13 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £820,000 | £820,000 |
| Ground Floor Flat 101 | 28 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| First Floor Flat 79 | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| 167 | 9 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £885,000 | £904,239 |
| 55a | 15 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 193 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £922,500 | £942,554 |
| 110 | 4 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £1,050,000 | £1,072,826 |
| Apartment 1 Residence, 99 | 14 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £465,000 | £475,109 |
| 121 | 7 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £1,050,000 | £1,072,826 |
| Ground Floor Flat 111 | 17 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| Flat 1 78 | 5 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 80 | 19 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £960,000 | £1,010,149 |
| Ground Floor Flat 197 | 31 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| Flat 2 155 | 16 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| First Floor Flat 87 | 4 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £339,000 | £366,276 |
| Basement Flat 79 | 18 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £211,000 | £227,977 |
| 201 | 14 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £950,000 | £1,026,437 |
| 59a | 7 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £332,000 | £358,713 |
| Ground Floor Flat 189 | 20 Apr 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 143 | 4 Apr 2023 | Semi-detached | £1,065,000 | £1,150,690 |
| Basement Flat 57 | 16 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £328,500 | £380,596 |
| Flat A 103 | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £355,000 | £411,298 |
| 109 | 12 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £1,050,000 | £1,216,516 |
| Maisonette 267 | 8 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £537,500 | £622,740 |
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 Preston Drove, Brighton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 Preston Drove | £115,000 (1997) | £1,000,000 (2026) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 101 Preston Drove | £180,000 (2007) | £300,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| FIRST FLOOR FLAT 79 Preston Drove | £151,500 (2006) | £375,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 167 Preston Drove | £360,000 (2004) | £885,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 55A Preston Drove | £49,500 (1999) | £550,000 (2025) | +9.7% | +6.8% |
| 193 Preston Drove | £564,000 (2017) | £922,500 (2025) | +6.3% | +2.6% |
| 110 Preston Drove | £71,000 (1997) | £1,050,000 (2025) | +10.1% | +7.3% |
| 121 Preston Drove | £575,000 (2007) | £1,050,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 111 Preston Drove | £285,000 (2019) | £435,000 (2024) | +8.8% | +4.2% |
| FLAT 1 78 Preston Drove | £345,000 (2019) | £400,000 (2024) | +3.0% | -1.4% |
| 80 Preston Drove | £449,000 (2011) | £960,000 (2024) | +6.0% | +3.0% |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 197 Preston Drove | £171,000 (2006) | £375,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Preston Drove, Brighton 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 | 167 | 48.5% | £175,000 | £15,000 – £565,000 |
| Terraced | 136 | 39.5% | £392,000 | £30,000 – £1,050,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 6.7% | £437,500 | £106,500 – £1,065,000 |
| Detached | 18 | 5.2% | £585,000 | £112,750 – £1,090,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Preston Drove, Brighton
166 of the sales on record are leasehold and 178 freehold — 48.3% 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 £177,500 and the median freehold sale £427,500 — a gap of +140.8%. 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 | 166 | 48.3% | £177,500 |
| Freehold | 178 | 51.7% | £427,500 |
| New build | 11 | 3.2% | £435,000 |
| Existing home | 333 | 96.8% | £248,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +75.4%. 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 15 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 Preston Drove, Brighton
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 £249,973 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.70% 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 BN1, 587 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 164 violent, 17 burglary, 21 vehicle-related and 136 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.5 times busier.
Against the 277,103 residents the 2021 census counted in Brighton and Hove, that is 2.12 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 Preston Drove, Brighton
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.
19 state and independent schools have a BN1 postcode: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Stringer School | Secondary | Community school | 1,626 |
| Varndean School | Secondary | Community school | 1,487 |
| Patcham High School | Secondary | Community school | 1,074 |
| Brighton Aldridge Community Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 808 |
| Balfour Primary School | Primary | Community school | 695 |
| Downs Junior School | Primary | Community school | 495 |
| Westdene Primary School | Primary | Community school | 445 |
| Carden Nursery and Primary School | Primary | Community school | 359 |
| Patcham Junior School | Primary | Community school | 353 |
| Coldean Primary School | Primary | Community school | 309 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| London Road (Brighton) Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Preston Park Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Moulsecoomb Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Brighton Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
Section 09
How Preston Drove, Brighton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Preston Drove, Brighton sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Brighton the street ranks 461 of 1563 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £199,950 (+25.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,000 per square metre, across 83 of the 344 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 £15,000 to £1,090,000. 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.
Preston Drove, Brighton 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
Streets nearby
- Dyke Road£157,750 median
- London Road£160,000 median
- Ditchling Road£190,650 median
- Springfield Road£147,500 median
- Kings Road£184,000 median
- Buckingham Road£160,000 median
- Montpelier Road£177,250 median
- Ditchling Rise£150,000 median
- Stanford Avenue£151,000 median
- Preston Park Avenue£240,000 median
- Preston Road£159,975 median
- Beaconsfield Villas£195,000 median
- Buckingham Place£140,250 median
- Havelock Road£250,000 median
- Osborne Road£287,500 median
- Tongdean Lane£137,998 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 83C Preston Drove7 sales
- FLAT 4, 63 Preston Drove6 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 79 Preston Drove5 sales
- 55A Preston Drove5 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 111 Preston Drove5 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 173 Preston Drove5 sales
- 129 Preston Drove4 sales
- 167 Preston Drove4 sales
- 110 Preston Drove4 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 197 Preston Drove4 sales
- FLAT 2, 155 Preston Drove4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 87 Preston Drove4 sales
- 59A Preston Drove4 sales
- 109 Preston Drove4 sales
- MAISONETTE, 267 Preston Drove4 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 67 Preston Drove4 sales
- FLAT 1, 63 Preston Drove4 sales
- 253 Preston Drove4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 75 Preston Drove4 sales
- 211 Preston Drove4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 144 Preston Drove4 sales
- FLAT 2, 63 Preston Drove4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 175 Preston Drove4 sales
- 131 Preston Drove4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Preston Drove, Brighton?
The median price paid in Preston Drove, Brighton across every sale on the register is £249,973. 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 Preston Drove, Brighton?
344 sales are on record for Preston Drove, Brighton, the most recent completing on 28 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Preston Drove, Brighton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +58.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +14.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Preston Drove, Brighton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £885,000, set in 2025. 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 Preston Drove, Brighton?
£3,000 per square metre, from the 83 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 28 Apr 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, “Preston Drove, Brighton 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.