Melbourne Road, Chichester house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £102,000. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +48.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +14.9%.
Median price paid
£102,000
Change in cash, 2012–2022
+48.1%
Change in real terms
+14.9%
Median per m²
£1,964
HM Land Registry139 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Melbourne Road, Chichester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Melbourne Road, Chichester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | 4 | £45,250 | £100,476 |
| 2000s | 7 | £91,500 | £166,686 |
| 2010s | 4 | £150,000 | £211,500 |
| 2020s | 2 | £197,000 | £201,283 |
The highest yearly median on record for Melbourne Road, Chichester is £278,750 in 2019; the lowest is £43,750 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £43,750 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,146, so the real change over the whole record is +186.2% — about +3.97% 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: +48.1% in cash against +14.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 19 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 65 | 5 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £97,500 | £99,620 |
| 60 | 1 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 53 | 19 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £112,000 | £114,435 |
| 35 | 10 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 28 | 31 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £750,000 | £789,179 |
| 31a | 18 Dec 2023 | Detached | £515,000 | £556,437 |
| 68 | 2 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £92,500 | £99,943 |
| 71 | 25 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £89,500 | £96,701 |
| Ground Floor Flat 1 | 10 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 56 | 12 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £144,823 |
| 64 | 30 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £295,440 |
| 42 | 17 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £167,995 |
| 60 | 28 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| 5 | 21 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 11 | 22 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| 65 | 9 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £77,000 | £97,285 |
| 66 | 25 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £91,000 | £114,973 |
| 32 | 9 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £356,150 | £449,974 |
| 62 | 4 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £197,000 | £248,898 |
| 13 | 19 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £280,000 | £353,763 |
| 44 | 30 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 61 | 19 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £210,000 | £271,901 |
| 28 | 16 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £306,100 | £396,328 |
| 2 | 5 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £272,500 | £356,424 |
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 Melbourne Road, Chichester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59 Melbourne Road | £100,000 (2006) | £80,000 (2026) | -1.1% | -3.9% |
| 65 Melbourne Road | £39,750 (1998) | £97,500 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 60 Melbourne Road | £64,800 (1996) | £295,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 53 Melbourne Road | £37,750 (1995) | £112,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 35 Melbourne Road | £285,000 (2019) | £400,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +1.5% |
| 28 Melbourne Road | £194,000 (2009) | £750,000 (2024) | +9.4% | +6.2% |
| 68 Melbourne Road | £60,000 (1999) | £92,500 (2023) | +1.8% | -0.8% |
| 71 Melbourne Road | £50,000 (2001) | £89,500 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 1 Melbourne Road | £200,000 (2006) | £235,000 (2023) | +1.0% | -2.0% |
| 56 Melbourne Road | £108,500 (2007) | £125,000 (2022) | +0.9% | -1.7% |
| 64 Melbourne Road | £165,000 (2008) | £255,000 (2022) | +3.2% | +0.5% |
| 42 Melbourne Road | £54,500 (1998) | £145,000 (2022) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Melbourne Road, Chichester 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 | 75 | 54.0% | £85,000 | £32,500 – £285,000 |
| Terraced | 42 | 30.2% | £162,000 | £44,950 – £750,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | 15.1% | £197,000 | £65,000 – £437,500 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.7% | £515,000 | £515,000 – £515,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Melbourne Road, Chichester
79 of the sales on record are leasehold and 60 freehold — 56.8% 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 £85,000 and the median freehold sale £196,000 — a gap of +130.6%. 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 | 79 | 56.8% | £85,000 |
| Freehold | 60 | 43.2% | £196,000 |
A further 2 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 Melbourne Road, Chichester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Chichester, 44.4% of 65,469 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 520 | 0.8% |
| B | 9,731 | 14.9% |
| C | 18,790 | 28.7% |
| D | 20,545 | 31.4% |
| E | 10,738 | 16.4% |
| F | 3,924 | 6.0% |
| G | 1,221 | 1.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Chichester at £1,326 a month as of Jun 2026 — £942 for a one-bedroom home and £1,498 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £102,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.60% 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 PO19, 454 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 130 violent, 4 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 113 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 124,068 residents the 2021 census counted in Chichester, that is 3.66 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 Melbourne Road, Chichester
The 2021 census counted 124,068 residents in Chichester across 54,118 households. 66.8% of those households own their home and 33.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a PO19 postcode: 9 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop Luffa School, Chichester | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,600 |
| Chichester High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,191 |
| Parklands Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 426 |
| Portfield Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 288 |
| Kingsham Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 270 |
| Jessie Younghusband Primary School | Primary | Community school | 213 |
| Fishbourne CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 210 |
| St. Joseph's CofE Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 165 |
| Chichester Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 140 |
| St. Joseph's Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 129 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Chichester Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Fishbourne Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Bosham Rail Station | Rail | 4.9 km |
| Bosham Hoe Ferry Landing | Ferry | 6.7 km |
Section 09
How Melbourne Road, Chichester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Melbourne Road, Chichester sits below that national figure — -35.2%.
Within Chichester the street ranks 1202 of 1222 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-56.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,964 per square metre, across 48 of the 139 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 £32,500 to £750,000. 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.
Melbourne Road, Chichester sits in Chichester, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Chichester at 12.3 times median local earnings of £33,692 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
- Stockbridge Road£155,000 median
- Oving Road£197,500 median
- Henty Gardens£139,975 median
- Grove Road£205,000 median
- Somerstown£168,500 median
- Chatsworth Road£113,000 median
- St Agnes Place£245,000 median
- Church Road£212,000 median
- Longley Road£276,000 median
- East Street£152,500 median
- King George Gardens£225,000 median
- Whyke Lane£228,300 median
- Westgate£269,998 median
- Bognor Road£201,500 median
- Parklands Road£257,500 median
- Mosse Gardens£169,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 53 Melbourne Road6 sales
- 65 Melbourne Road5 sales
- 5 Melbourne Road5 sales
- 44 Melbourne Road5 sales
- 43 Melbourne Road5 sales
- 60 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 68 Melbourne Road4 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 1 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 42 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 13 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 29 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 63 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 55 Melbourne Road4 sales
- 28 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 64 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 66 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 62 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 61 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 9 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 15 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 67 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 51 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 18 Melbourne Road3 sales
- 69 Melbourne Road3 sales
Back to Chichester house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Melbourne Road, Chichester?
The median price paid in Melbourne Road, Chichester across every sale on the register is £102,000. 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 Melbourne Road, Chichester?
139 sales are on record for Melbourne Road, Chichester, the most recent completing on 19 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Melbourne Road, Chichester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.1% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +14.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Melbourne Road, Chichester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £278,750, set in 2019. 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 Melbourne Road, Chichester?
£1,964 per square metre, from the 48 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 Jan 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, “Melbourne Road, Chichester 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.