St James Road, East Grinstead house prices are built from 138 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2001 and the most recent on 29 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,475. Across the 14 years from 2010 to 2024 the median moved +45.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.0%.
Median price paid
£136,475
Change in cash, 2010–2024
+45.7%
Change in real terms
-4.0%
Median per m²
£2,698
HM Land Registry138 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Apr 2026
Section 01
How St James Road, East Grinstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median St James Road, East Grinstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2001 to 2024. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £131,950 | £240,374 |
| 2010s | 3 | £122,500 | £172,725 |
| 2020s | 2 | £169,000 | £172,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for St James Road, East Grinstead is £185,000 in 2007; the lowest is £110,000 in 2009. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £115,950 to £169,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £227,385, so the real change over the whole record is -21.8% — about -1.06% 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: +45.7% in cash against -4.0% 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 10 St. James Court | 29 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £85,000 |
| 34 | 15 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| Flat 2 21 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £178,000 | £181,870 |
| 50 | 30 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £375,000 | £383,152 |
| First Floor Flat 10 | 6 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| Flat 16 St. James Court | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £92,597 |
| Flat 21 St. James Court | 31 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 19 | 10 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £455,000 | £478,769 |
| Flat 1 St. James Court | 5 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £88,000 | £92,597 |
| Flat 4 21 | 28 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £169,000 | £177,828 |
| Flat 4 St. James Court | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £91,839 |
| Flat 1 St. James Court | 29 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £133,237 |
| 12a | 1 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £231,000 | £267,634 |
| Flat 2 40 | 22 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £177,500 | £205,649 |
| Flat 14 St. James Court | 9 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £191,167 |
| Ground Floor Flat 10 | 14 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £212,000 | £245,620 |
| Flat 2 St. James Court | 12 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| Flat 16 St. James Court | 18 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| Flat 3 York House, 38 | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £186,000 | £240,826 |
| Flat 2 York House, 38 | 17 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £191,000 | £247,300 |
| Flat 26 St. James Court | 21 Jan 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £142,424 |
| 12a | 18 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £199,950 | £261,530 |
| Flat 16 St. James Court | 1 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £85,000 | £111,178 |
| Flat 7 St. James Court | 8 Apr 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £131,500 | £171,999 |
| Flat 1 York House, 38 | 22 Feb 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £281,215 |
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 St James Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 10 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £193,950 (2003) | £85,000 (2026) | -3.5% | -6.2% |
| 34 St James Road | £47,500 (1997) | £170,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 2 21 St James Road | £165,000 (2018) | £178,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -2.7% |
| FLAT 16 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £136,950 (2002) | £88,000 (2024) | -2.0% | -4.7% |
| FLAT 21 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £179,950 (2002) | £175,000 (2024) | -0.1% | -2.8% |
| FLAT 1 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £149,950 (2003) | £88,000 (2024) | -2.5% | -5.2% |
| FLAT 4 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £136,950 (2001) | £85,000 (2023) | -2.1% | -4.8% |
| 12A St James Road | £84,950 (2001) | £231,000 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 2 40 St James Road | £69,000 (2002) | £177,500 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 14 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £187,950 (2003) | £165,000 (2022) | -0.7% | -3.2% |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 10 St James Road | £147,500 (2013) | £212,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 2 ST. JAMES COURT St James Road | £180,950 (2003) | £170,000 (2022) | -0.3% | -2.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St James Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 113 | 81.9% | £135,000 | £46,950 – £275,000 |
| Terraced | 16 | 11.6% | £150,000 | £61,000 – £375,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 3.6% | £149,000 | £115,950 – £335,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 2.9% | £220,000 | £80,000 – £455,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in St James Road, East Grinstead
115 of the sales on record are leasehold and 23 freehold — 83.3% 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 £135,000 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +63.0%. 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 | 115 | 83.3% | £135,000 |
| Freehold | 23 | 16.7% | £220,000 |
| New build | 30 | 21.7% | £138,450 |
| Existing home | 108 | 78.3% | £133,250 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +3.9%. 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 8 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 St James Road, 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 £136,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.47% 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 St James Road, 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 St James Road, East Grinstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St James Road, East Grinstead sits below that national figure — -13.3%.
Within East Grinstead the street ranks 447 of 466 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £240,000 (-43.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,698 per square metre, across 28 of the 138 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 £46,950 to £455,000. 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.
St James Road, 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
- FLAT 3, YORK HOUSE, 38 St James Road8 sales
- FLAT 16, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road6 sales
- FLAT 1, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road6 sales
- FLAT 2, 40 St James Road5 sales
- UPPER FLAT, 36 St James Road5 sales
- 34 St James Road4 sales
- 12A St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road4 sales
- FLAT 10, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 7, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 40 St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 15, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road3 sales
- 5 St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road3 sales
- 9 St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 21 St James Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, 21 St James Road2 sales
- FLAT 21, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road2 sales
- FLAT 4, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road2 sales
- FLAT 14, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road2 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 10 St James Road2 sales
- FLAT 26, ST. JAMES COURT St James Road2 sales
- FLAT 1, YORK HOUSE, 38 St James Road2 sales
Back to East Grinstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in St James Road, East Grinstead?
The median price paid in St James Road, East Grinstead across every sale on the register is £136,475. 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 St James Road, East Grinstead?
138 sales are on record for St James Road, East Grinstead, the most recent completing on 29 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have St James Road, East Grinstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.7% between 2010 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were St James Road, East Grinstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £185,000, set in 2007. 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 St James Road, East Grinstead?
£2,698 per square metre, from the 28 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 29 Apr 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, “St James Road, 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.