East Grinstead house prices

East Grinstead house prices are built from 20,299 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 £240,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +17.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -15.9%.

HM Land Registry20,299 sales3,928 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median East Grinstead 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.

The highest yearly median on record for East Grinstead is £440,000 in 2022; the lowest is £75,400 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £75,400 to £415,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £167,424, so the real change over the whole record is +147.9% — about +2.97% 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: +17.4% in cash against -15.9% 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.

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.

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 East Grinstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. East Grinstead is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,845 certificates cover East Grinstead, and their median floor area is 80 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. 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.

5,201 of the sales on record are leasehold and 15,098 freehold — 25.6% 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 £163,000 and the median freehold sale £281,000 — a gap of +72.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +17.0%. 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 899 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Mid Sussex, 51.1% of 72,264 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Mid Sussex at £1,418 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,006 for a one-bedroom home and £1,615 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £240,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.09% 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 RH19, 142 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 35 violent, 2 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 46 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 152,566 residents the 2021 census counted in Mid Sussex, that is 0.93 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.

The 2021 census counted 152,566 residents in Mid Sussex across 63,349 households. 73.9% of those households own their home and 26.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

12 state and independent schools have a RH19 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. East Grinstead sits above that national figure — +52.4%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,083 per square metre, across 3,928 of the 20,299 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 £5,000 to £5,746,403. 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.

East Grinstead sits in Mid Sussex, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Mid Sussex at 10.9 times median local earnings of £40,222 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.

Streets in East Grinstead

• London Road592 sales
• Queens Road433 sales
• St Leonards Park322 sales
• Lingfield Road263 sales
• Estcots Drive260 sales
• Holtye Road243 sales
• Hammerwood Road238 sales
• Portland Road238 sales
• Maypole Road230 sales
• Lewes Road229 sales
• The Dell229 sales
• Woodbury Avenue222 sales
• Cantelupe Road199 sales
• The Glades193 sales
• Halsford Park Road190 sales
• Fairfield Road189 sales
• Copthorne Road167 sales
• Sycamore Drive166 sales
• St Agnes Road165 sales
• De la Warr Road160 sales
• Heathcote Drive158 sales
• Moat Road143 sales
• Dunnings Road141 sales
• Manning Close141 sales
• Garden Wood Road139 sales
• St James Road138 sales
• Maple Drive134 sales
• St Johns Road134 sales
• Newlands Crescent129 sales
• West Street125 sales
• Farm Close124 sales
• Stockwell Road119 sales
• Tower Close117 sales
• Blount Avenue110 sales
• Morton Road110 sales
• Felcourt Road106 sales
• Station Road104 sales
• Kennedy Avenue103 sales
• Charlwoods Road102 sales
• Fosters Place101 sales
• Sackville Court101 sales
• Charters Village Drive100 sales
• Twyhurst Court100 sales
• West Hill100 sales
• Forest View Road98 sales
• Campbell Crescent97 sales
• Waterside97 sales
• Mindelheim Avenue94 sales
• Hurst Farm Road93 sales
• Brook Close91 sales
• Stuart Way89 sales
• Elm Drive88 sales
• Garland Road88 sales
• Wood Street88 sales
• Alders View Drive86 sales
• Verbania Way86 sales
• Windmill Lane86 sales
• Lancaster Drive85 sales
• Woods Hill Lane85 sales
• Butlers Way84 sales

Postcode districts covering East Grinstead

• RH19£240,000 median

What is the average house price in East Grinstead?

The median price paid in East Grinstead across every sale on the register is £240,000. 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 East Grinstead?

20,299 sales are on record for East Grinstead, 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 East Grinstead house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +17.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -15.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were East Grinstead house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £440,000, 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 East Grinstead?

£3,083 per square metre, from the 3,928 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, “East Grinstead 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.