Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead house prices are built from 158 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £273,000. Across the 10 years from 2010 to 2020 the median moved +69.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +37.3%.
Median price paid
£273,000
Change in cash, 2010–2020
+69.4%
Change in real terms
+37.3%
Median per m²
£2,637
HM Land Registry158 sales30 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026
Section 01
How Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2020. 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 | £92,000 | £204,283 |
| 2000s | 5 | £247,995 | £451,774 |
| 2010s | 6 | £308,500 | £434,985 |
| 2020s | 1 | £522,500 | £533,859 |
The highest yearly median on record for Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead is £522,500 in 2020; the lowest is £91,500 in 1995. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £91,500 to £522,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £203,173, so the real change over the whole record is +233.0% — about +4.93% 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: +69.4% in cash against +37.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 61 | 15 Jan 2026 | Detached | £535,000 | £535,000 |
| 81 | 10 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £521,087 |
| 14 | 11 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 52 | 9 Aug 2024 | Detached | £460,000 | £484,030 |
| 98 | 12 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 54 | 8 Nov 2023 | Detached | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| 110 | 16 Oct 2023 | Detached | £550,000 | £594,253 |
| 43 | 1 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £594,253 |
| 113 | 1 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £497,011 |
| 126 | 27 Jun 2022 | Detached | £490,000 | £567,707 |
| 36 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £447,000 | £517,888 |
| 122 | 15 Oct 2021 | Detached | £492,000 | £621,613 |
| 103 | 16 Aug 2021 | Detached | £555,000 | £701,210 |
| 83 | 27 Nov 2020 | Detached | £522,500 | £676,515 |
| 21 | 28 Oct 2020 | Detached | £585,000 | £757,438 |
| 15 | 7 Aug 2020 | Detached | £600,000 | £776,860 |
| 78 | 10 Jul 2020 | Detached | £445,000 | £576,171 |
| 17 | 1 Apr 2020 | Detached | £515,000 | £666,804 |
| 115 | 26 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £529,731 |
| 80 | 5 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £503,571 |
| 104 | 26 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £367,500 | £480,682 |
| 102 | 15 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 88 | 18 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £619,707 |
| 108 | 5 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £466,446 |
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 Heathcote 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 Heathcote Drive | £71,000 (1996) | £430,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 81 Heathcote Drive | £255,000 (2011) | £510,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 14 Heathcote Drive | £83,000 (1996) | £400,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 98 Heathcote Drive | £137,000 (1999) | £450,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 54 Heathcote Drive | £225,500 (2004) | £475,000 (2023) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
| 110 Heathcote Drive | £280,000 (2014) | £550,000 (2023) | +7.8% | +4.4% |
| 43 Heathcote Drive | £237,600 (2008) | £550,000 (2023) | +5.8% | +2.7% |
| 113 Heathcote Drive | £80,000 (1996) | £460,000 (2023) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 126 Heathcote Drive | £190,000 (2000) | £490,000 (2022) | +4.4% | +1.8% |
| 36 Heathcote Drive | £285,000 (2007) | £447,000 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 122 Heathcote Drive | £180,000 (2001) | £492,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +2.9% |
| 21 Heathcote Drive | £97,250 (1995) | £585,000 (2020) | +7.4% | +5.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Heathcote 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 79 | 50.0% | £285,000 | £81,750 – £600,000 |
| Semi-detached | 68 | 43.0% | £267,500 | £69,000 – £550,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 5.1% | £68,000 | £48,000 – £165,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 1.9% | £275,000 | £242,500 – £278,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead
7 of the sales on record are leasehold and 151 freehold — 4.4% 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 £68,000 and the median freehold sale £277,000 — a gap of +307.4%. 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 | 7 | 4.4% | £68,000 |
| Freehold | 151 | 95.6% | £277,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.3% | £48,000 |
| Existing home | 156 | 98.7% | £275,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -82.5%. 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 7 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 Heathcote 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 £273,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.23% 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 Heathcote 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 Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead sits above that national figure — +73.3%.
Within East Grinstead the street ranks 251 of 466 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £240,000 (+13.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,637 per square metre, across 30 of the 158 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 £48,000 to £600,000. 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.
Heathcote 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
- 21 Heathcote Drive4 sales
- 104 Heathcote Drive4 sales
- FLAT 1, 53A Heathcote Drive4 sales
- 106 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 98 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 54 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 113 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 43 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 36 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 122 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 80 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 90 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 42 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 67 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 118 Heathcote Drive3 sales
- 81 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 14 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 110 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 126 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 15 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 78 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 115 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 88 Heathcote Drive2 sales
- 74 Heathcote Drive2 sales
Back to East Grinstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead?
The median price paid in Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead across every sale on the register is £273,000. 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 Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead?
158 sales are on record for Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.4% between 2010 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +37.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £522,500, set in 2020. 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 Heathcote Drive, East Grinstead?
£2,637 per square metre, from the 30 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 15 May 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, “Heathcote 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.