Eastbourne house prices

Eastbourne house prices are built from 78,601 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £161,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +26.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.4%.

HM Land Registry78,601 sales18,588 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Eastbourne 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 Eastbourne is £300,000 in 2022; the lowest is £51,450 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,450 to £287,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £114,243, so the real change over the whole record is +151.2% — about +3.02% 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: +26.4% in cash against -9.4% 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 Eastbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Eastbourne 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. 14,265 certificates cover Eastbourne, and their median floor area is 75 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — -1.3%. 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.

29,734 of the sales on record are leasehold and 48,867 freehold — 37.8% 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 £129,950 and the median freehold sale £185,000 — a gap of +42.4%. 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 — +3.1%. 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 3,316 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 Eastbourne, 46.0% of 57,606 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.6% 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 Eastbourne at £1,164 a month as of Jun 2026 — £816 for a one-bedroom home and £1,300 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £161,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.68% 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 BN21, 686 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 214 violent, 13 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 186 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.1 times busier.

Against the 101,686 residents the 2021 census counted in Eastbourne, that is 6.75 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 101,686 residents in Eastbourne across 45,610 households. 60.3% of those households own their home and 39.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

4 state and independent schools have a BN21 postcode: 1 primary, 1 16 plus, 1 secondary, 1 all-through. 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. Eastbourne sits above that national figure — +2.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,142 per square metre, across 18,588 of the 78,601 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 £300 to £2,200,000. 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.

Eastbourne sits in Eastbourne, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Eastbourne at 7.4 times median local earnings of £37,015 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 Eastbourne

• Upperton Road995 sales
• Seaside698 sales
• Silverdale Road690 sales
• Granville Road665 sales
• St Annes Road591 sales
• St Johns Road523 sales
• Southfields Road520 sales
• Victoria Drive506 sales
• Enys Road505 sales
• St Leonards Road499 sales
• Midway Quay460 sales
• Arundel Road453 sales
• Church Street452 sales
• Blackwater Road433 sales
• Jevington Gardens425 sales
• Willingdon Road422 sales
• Seven Sisters Road417 sales
• Langney Road414 sales
• Whitley Road391 sales
• Carew Road390 sales
• Compton Place Road390 sales
• Macquarie Quay380 sales
• Brodrick Road373 sales
• Royal Parade370 sales
• Cavendish Place359 sales
• Latimer Road352 sales
• Pevensey Road350 sales
• The Avenue350 sales
• Meads Road346 sales
• Upperton Gardens343 sales
• Percival Road341 sales
• Hartington Place322 sales
• Snowdon Close320 sales
• Golden Gate Way319 sales
• Susans Road315 sales
• Caroline Way311 sales
• South Street298 sales
• Grassington Road296 sales
• Carlisle Road293 sales
• Madeira Way293 sales
• Meads Street293 sales
• Santa Cruz Drive286 sales
• Mill Road276 sales
• Phoenix Drive265 sales
• Ashford Road264 sales
• Green Street264 sales
• Selwyn Road263 sales
• The Goffs260 sales
• Trinity Place256 sales
• Chiswick Place253 sales
• Darley Road252 sales
• Hurst Road247 sales
• Eastbourne Road245 sales
• Long Beach View243 sales
• Priory Road242 sales
• Kings Drive241 sales
• Bolsover Road239 sales
• Ringwood Road239 sales
• Sydney Road239 sales
• Devonshire Place236 sales

Postcode districts covering Eastbourne

• BN21£140,000 median
• BN23£172,000 median
• BN22£150,000 median
• BN20£200,000 median

What is the average house price in Eastbourne?

The median price paid in Eastbourne across every sale on the register is £161,000. 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 Eastbourne?

78,601 sales are on record for Eastbourne, the most recent completing on 29 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Eastbourne house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +26.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Eastbourne house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £300,000, 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 Eastbourne?

£2,142 per square metre, from the 18,588 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 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, “Eastbourne 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.