Elm Drive, East Grinstead house prices are built from 88 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £165,000. Across the 9 years from 1996 to 2005 the median moved +180.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +135.1%.
Median price paid
£165,000
Change in cash, 1996–2005
+180.0%
Change in real terms
+135.1%
Median per m²
£2,425
HM Land Registry88 sales24 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jun 2025
Section 01
How Elm Drive, East Grinstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Elm Drive, East Grinstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2005. 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 | 3 | £62,400 | £138,557 |
| 2000s | 2 | £130,000 | £236,822 |
The highest yearly median on record for Elm Drive, East Grinstead is £168,000 in 2005; the lowest is £60,000 in 1996. Across the full 10-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £168,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,154, so the real change over the whole record is +135.1% — about +9.97% 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: +180.0% in cash against +135.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 30 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £345,000 | £352,500 |
| 6 | 11 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 30 | 1 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 41 | 30 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 16 | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 34 | 12 May 2022 | Terraced | £345,500 | £400,292 |
| 28 | 25 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £347,500 | £402,609 |
| 24 | 30 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £326,000 | £411,882 |
| 42 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £312,000 | £394,194 |
| 40 | 5 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £214,785 |
| 39 | 16 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 19 | 15 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £345,000 | £446,694 |
| 10 | 3 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| 30 | 17 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £305,000 | £398,933 |
| 31 | 26 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 18 | 12 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £385,853 |
| 29 | 5 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £406,474 |
| 11 | 10 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £255,000 | £347,056 |
| 16 | 3 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £287,000 | £390,608 |
| 31 | 16 Dec 2016 | Terraced | £285,000 | £397,871 |
| 19 | 11 May 2016 | Terraced | £290,000 | £404,851 |
| 43 | 7 Dec 2015 | Terraced | £350,000 | £493,500 |
| 30 | 29 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £273,000 | £384,930 |
| 36 | 21 Aug 2015 | Terraced | £256,000 | £360,960 |
| 39 | 3 Jul 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £218,550 |
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 Elm Drive, East Grinstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Elm Drive | £186,000 (2007) | £345,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| 6 Elm Drive | £60,000 (1997) | £300,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 30 Elm Drive | £61,800 (1997) | £340,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 41 Elm Drive | £35,500 (1997) | £160,000 (2023) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 16 Elm Drive | £164,000 (2006) | £350,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +1.5% |
| 34 Elm Drive | £60,000 (1995) | £345,500 (2022) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 28 Elm Drive | £131,000 (2001) | £347,500 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| 24 Elm Drive | £179,950 (2006) | £326,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.7% |
| 42 Elm Drive | £70,000 (1995) | £312,000 (2021) | +5.9% | +3.6% |
| 40 Elm Drive | £47,000 (1998) | £170,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.5% |
| 39 Elm Drive | £60,000 (2000) | £180,000 (2020) | +5.6% | +3.4% |
| 19 Elm Drive | £88,000 (1999) | £345,000 (2020) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Elm Drive, East Grinstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 71 | 80.7% | £165,000 | £35,500 – £350,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 9.1% | £114,700 | £47,000 – £180,000 |
| Semi-detached | 6 | 6.8% | £185,000 | £88,000 – £305,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 3.4% | £202,500 | £70,000 – £312,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Elm Drive, East Grinstead
12 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 13.6% 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 £103,600 and the median freehold sale £175,250 — a gap of +69.2%. 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 | 12 | 13.6% | £103,600 |
| Freehold | 76 | 86.4% | £175,250 |
A further 1 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 Elm Drive, East Grinstead
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 661 | 0.9% |
| B | 13,870 | 19.2% |
| C | 22,371 | 31.0% |
| D | 23,656 | 32.7% |
| E | 8,846 | 12.2% |
| F | 2,266 | 3.1% |
| G | 594 | 0.8% |
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 £165,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.31% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Elm Drive, East Grinstead
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imberhorne School | Secondary | Community school | 1,558 |
| Sackville School | Secondary | Community school | 1,525 |
| Estcots Primary School | Primary | Community school | 403 |
| Halsford Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 398 |
| Blackwell Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 294 |
| The Meads Primary School | Primary | Community school | 286 |
| Felbridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 207 |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School, East Grinstead | Primary | Academy converter | 199 |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 188 |
| Baldwins Hill Primary School, East Grinstead | Primary | Academy converter | 139 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| East Grinstead Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Dormans Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Kingscote (Bluebell Railway) | Metro or underground | 3.4 km |
| Kingscote (Bluebell Railway) | Metro or underground | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Elm Drive, East Grinstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Elm Drive, East Grinstead sits above that national figure — +4.8%.
Within East Grinstead the street ranks 419 of 466 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £240,000 (-31.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,425 per square metre, across 24 of the 88 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 £35,500 to £350,000. 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.
Elm Drive, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- London Road£177,250 median
- Queens Road£187,000 median
- St Leonards Park£95,250 median
- Lingfield Road£212,500 median
- Estcots Drive£170,250 median
- Holtye Road£310,000 median
- Hammerwood Road£221,000 median
- Portland Road£145,000 median
- Maypole Road£249,975 median
- Lewes Road£320,000 median
- The Dell£140,000 median
- Woodbury Avenue£196,375 median
- Cantelupe Road£197,000 median
- The Glades£197,000 median
- Halsford Park Road£190,000 median
- Fairfield Road£176,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Elm Drive5 sales
- 31 Elm Drive5 sales
- 41 Elm Drive4 sales
- 16 Elm Drive4 sales
- 34 Elm Drive4 sales
- 39 Elm Drive4 sales
- 10 Elm Drive4 sales
- 17 Elm Drive4 sales
- 37 Elm Drive4 sales
- 36 Elm Drive3 sales
- 6 Elm Drive3 sales
- 28 Elm Drive3 sales
- 42 Elm Drive3 sales
- 40 Elm Drive3 sales
- 19 Elm Drive3 sales
- 11 Elm Drive3 sales
- 43 Elm Drive3 sales
- 21 Elm Drive3 sales
- 33 Elm Drive3 sales
- 24 Elm Drive2 sales
- 18 Elm Drive2 sales
- 29 Elm Drive2 sales
- 15 Elm Drive2 sales
- 3 Elm Drive2 sales
Back to East Grinstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Elm Drive, East Grinstead?
The median price paid in Elm Drive, East Grinstead across every sale on the register is £165,000. 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 Elm Drive, East Grinstead?
88 sales are on record for Elm Drive, East Grinstead, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Elm Drive, East Grinstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +180.0% between 1996 and 2005. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +135.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Elm Drive, East Grinstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £168,000, set in 2005. 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 Elm Drive, East Grinstead?
£2,425 per square metre, from the 24 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 30 Jun 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, “Elm Drive, 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.