Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton house prices are built from 282 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £134,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -16.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -39.6%.
Median price paid
£134,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-16.6%
Change in real terms
-39.6%
Median per m²
£2,740
HM Land Registry282 sales53 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Upper Rock Gardens, 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 | £41,975 | £93,204 |
| 2000s | 9 | £118,000 | £214,961 |
| 2010s | 9 | £220,000 | £310,200 |
| 2020s | 2 | £200,000 | £204,348 |
The highest yearly median on record for Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton is £415,000 in 2021; the lowest is £21,663 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £21,663 to £200,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £48,101, so the real change over the whole record is +324.8% — about +4.94% 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: -16.6% in cash against -39.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 7 49 | 27 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat 1 16 | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| Flat 5 45 | 4 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| Flat 2 21 | 18 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £132,826 |
| Basement Flat 25 | 28 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| Flat 4 21 | 20 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £130,000 | £136,791 |
| Flat 2 20 | 10 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| Basement Flat 25 | 5 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| Flat 9 44 | 14 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £149,000 | £160,989 |
| Third Floor Flat 41 | 22 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| Basement Flat 20 | 22 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| Flat 11 44 | 8 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £186,000 | £215,497 |
| Flat 2 16 | 4 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £244,000 | £282,695 |
| 40 | 22 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £1,050,000 | £1,326,613 |
| Flat 9 21 | 5 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| Flat 1 24 | 26 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £370,000 | £467,473 |
| Flat 1 16 | 21 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| Ground Floor Flat 1 22 | 19 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| 28 | 1 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £445,000 | £562,231 |
| 33a | 24 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £535,000 | £675,941 |
| First Floor Flat 33 | 23 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £275,500 | £348,078 |
| 42 | 11 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £1,250,000 | £1,579,301 |
| Basement Flat 32 | 16 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £530,000 | £686,226 |
| Flat 4 24 | 27 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £425,093 |
| Flat 1 24 | 16 Sep 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £345,000 | £451,252 |
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 Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 7 49 Upper Rock Gardens | £73,000 (2000) | £200,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.4% |
| FLAT 1 16 Upper Rock Gardens | £115,000 (1998) | £350,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 2 21 Upper Rock Gardens | £70,000 (2002) | £130,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| BASEMENT FLAT 25 Upper Rock Gardens | £27,000 (1996) | £240,000 (2025) | +7.8% | +5.1% |
| FLAT 4 21 Upper Rock Gardens | £20,500 (1995) | £130,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| FLAT 2 20 Upper Rock Gardens | £57,500 (2001) | £200,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 9 44 Upper Rock Gardens | £14,500 (1995) | £149,000 (2023) | +8.7% | +5.9% |
| THIRD FLOOR FLAT 41 Upper Rock Gardens | £66,000 (2000) | £275,000 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.1% |
| BASEMENT FLAT 20 Upper Rock Gardens | £50,000 (2001) | £210,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.4% |
| FLAT 2 16 Upper Rock Gardens | £65,000 (1999) | £244,000 (2022) | +5.9% | +3.4% |
| FLAT 9 21 Upper Rock Gardens | £47,000 (2000) | £230,000 (2021) | +7.9% | +5.5% |
| FLAT 1 24 Upper Rock Gardens | £70,000 (2000) | £370,000 (2021) | +8.3% | +5.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Upper Rock Gardens, 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 | 237 | 84.0% | £119,000 | £10,000 – £530,000 |
| Terraced | 44 | 15.6% | £385,000 | £40,000 – £1,250,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.4% | £115,000 | £115,000 – £115,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton
239 of the sales on record are leasehold and 43 freehold — 84.8% 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 £119,000 and the median freehold sale £385,000 — a gap of +223.5%. 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 | 239 | 84.8% | £119,000 |
| Freehold | 43 | 15.2% | £385,000 |
| New build | 4 | 1.4% | £87,500 |
| Existing home | 278 | 98.6% | £135,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -35.2%. 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 22 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 Upper Rock Gardens, 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 £134,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.17% 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 BN2, 381 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 131 violent, 5 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 88 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 277,103 residents the 2021 census counted in Brighton and Hove, that is 1.37 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 Upper Rock Gardens, 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.
20 state and independent schools have a BN2 postcode: 17 primary, 2 nursery, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longhill High School | Secondary | Community school | 632 |
| St Luke's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 622 |
| Saltdean Primary School | Primary | Community school | 533 |
| Elm Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 404 |
| Fairlight Primary School | Primary | Community school | 393 |
| City Academy Whitehawk | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 323 |
| Bevendean Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 317 |
| Rudyard Kipling Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Community school | 312 |
| Queen's Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 286 |
| Carlton Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 215 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Moulsecoomb Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| London Road (Brighton) Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| Brighton Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Falmer Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton sits below that national figure — -14.6%.
Within Brighton the street ranks 1425 of 1563 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £199,950 (-32.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,740 per square metre, across 53 of the 282 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 £10,000 to £1,250,000. 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.
Upper Rock Gardens, 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
- The Strand£204,995 median
- Marine Parade£197,750 median
- Queens Park Road£206,000 median
- Sussex Square£225,000 median
- Upper Lewes Road£128,000 median
- Elm Grove£183,000 median
- Coombe Road£168,000 median
- Eastern Road£115,000 median
- Eaton Place£165,000 median
- High Street£156,000 median
- Bear Road£149,500 median
- Devonshire Place£165,000 median
- Roundhill Crescent£166,750 median
- Hartington Road£200,000 median
- Longridge Avenue£110,000 median
- Bannings Vale£206,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 1, 16 Upper Rock Gardens7 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 25 Upper Rock Gardens7 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 9 Upper Rock Gardens6 sales
- FLAT 8, 21 Upper Rock Gardens6 sales
- FLAT 4, 21 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- 33A Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 33 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 32 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FLAT 6, 49 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FLAT 9, 45 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FLAT 5, 20 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FLAT E, 9 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- 3 Upper Rock Gardens5 sales
- FLAT 2, 16 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- FLAT 5, 21 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- 18 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- FLAT 3, 49 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 3, 22 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- LOWER GROUND FLOOR and GROUND FLOOR, 21 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- FLAT 4, 45 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- BASEMENT FLAT, 37 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- 17 Upper Rock Gardens4 sales
- FLAT 7, 49 Upper Rock Gardens3 sales
- FLAT 2, 21 Upper Rock Gardens3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton?
The median price paid in Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton across every sale on the register is £134,500. 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 Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton?
282 sales are on record for Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton, the most recent completing on 27 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -16.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -39.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £415,000, set in 2021. 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 Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton?
£2,740 per square metre, from the 53 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 27 Nov 2025. 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, “Upper Rock Gardens, 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.