Sold Price History


Darley Road, Eastbourne house prices

Darley Road, Eastbourne house prices are built from 252 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 13 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +79.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +31.4%.

Median price paid

£320,000

Change in cash, 2014–2024

+79.2%

Change in real terms

+31.4%

Median per m²

£3,448

HM Land Registry252 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Jan 2026

Section 01

How Darley Road, Eastbourne prices moved

The chart tracks the median Darley Road, Eastbourne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 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.

Darley Road, Eastbourne house prices by year, median price paid 1997 to 2024
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s1£59,995£133,217
2000s6£200,000£364,341
2010s9£323,000£455,430
2020s3£415,000£424,022
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Darley Road, Eastbourne is £477,500 in 2024; the lowest is £59,995 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £59,995 to £477,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £127,207, so the real change over the whole record is +295.0% — about +5.22% 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: +79.2% in cash against +31.4% 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.

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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
Flat 9 St Gabriel House, 413 Jan 2026Flat or maisonette£675,000£675,000
Flat 2 Croham Cliff, 1520 Nov 2025Flat or maisonette£420,000£429,130
Flat 6 Sarnia House, 1729 Aug 2025Flat or maisonette£170,000£173,696
Flat 2 6417 Dec 2024Flat or maisonette£490,000£515,597
Flat 3 St Gabriel House, 45 Nov 2024Flat or maisonette£650,000£683,955
Flat 7 Sarnia House, 171 Oct 2024Flat or maisonette£176,000£185,194
Flat 6 St Saviour House, 230 Aug 2024Flat or maisonette£630,000£662,910
Flat 1 Westfield, 515 Aug 2024Flat or maisonette£370,000£389,328
2128 Jun 2024Semi-detached£985,000£1,036,455
Flat 12 St Gabriel House, 45 Mar 2024Flat or maisonette£351,000£369,336
Flat 2 6428 Feb 2024Flat or maisonette£465,000£489,291
Flat 1 2316 Feb 2024Flat or maisonette£290,000£305,149
Flat 8 St Saviour House, 29 Jan 2024Flat or maisonette£560,000£589,254
Flat 6 St Emmanuel House, 625 Jul 2023Flat or maisonette£420,000£453,793
Flat 10 Meads Gate, 272 May 2023Flat or maisonette£260,000£280,920
25 All Saints, 2220 Mar 2023Flat or maisonette£350,000£378,161
1a10 Jan 2023Semi-detached£465,000£502,414
Flat 4 St Saviour House, 229 Sep 2022Flat or maisonette£620,000£718,324
Flat 5 St Emmanuel House, 616 Aug 2022Flat or maisonette£415,000£480,813
Flat 15 St Gabriel House, 41 Aug 2022Flat or maisonette£477,735£553,497
23 All Saints, 2222 Jul 2022Flat or maisonette£320,000£370,748
Flat 5 St Gabriel House, 46 Jun 2022Flat or maisonette£650,000£753,081
Flat 5 Sarnia House, 1725 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£170,000£196,960
Flat 6 St Gabriel House, 428 Jan 2022Flat or maisonette£390,000£451,849
Flat 3 Sarnia House, 1721 Dec 2021Flat or maisonette£192,000£242,581
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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 Darley Road, Eastbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 9 ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road£500,000 (2009)£675,000 (2026)+1.8%-1.2%
FLAT 2 64 Darley Road£80,000 (1995)£490,000 (2024)+6.4%+3.7%
FLAT 3 ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road£365,000 (2009)£650,000 (2024)+3.9%+0.9%
FLAT 7 SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road£132,500 (2004)£176,000 (2024)+1.4%-1.4%
FLAT 6 ST SAVIOUR HOUSE, 2 Darley Road£510,000 (2008)£630,000 (2024)+1.3%-1.6%
FLAT 1 WESTFIELD, 5 Darley Road£200,000 (2007)£370,000 (2024)+3.7%+0.7%
21 Darley Road£389,950 (2004)£985,000 (2024)+4.7%+1.8%
FLAT 12 ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road£375,000 (2009)£351,000 (2024)-0.4%-3.4%
FLAT 1 23 Darley Road£200,000 (2007)£290,000 (2024)+2.2%-0.8%
FLAT 8 ST SAVIOUR HOUSE, 2 Darley Road£445,000 (2009)£560,000 (2024)+1.5%-1.4%
FLAT 6 ST EMMANUEL HOUSE, 6 Darley Road£325,000 (2008)£420,000 (2023)+1.7%-1.2%
FLAT 10 MEADS GATE, 27 Darley Road£185,000 (2007)£260,000 (2023)+2.1%-0.8%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette22288.1%£305,000£30,000 – £875,000
Detached187.1%£525,000£29,500 – £1,150,000
Semi-detached93.6%£435,500£139,000 – £985,000
Terraced31.2%£70,000£62,000 – £118,500
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Darley Road, Eastbourne

222 of the sales on record are leasehold and 30 freehold — 88.1% 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 £316,000 and the median freehold sale £445,250 — a gap of +40.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold22288.1%£316,000
Freehold3011.9%£445,250
New build8031.7%£375,000
Existing home17268.3%£273,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +37.4%. 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 12 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 Darley Road, Eastbourne

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.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A890.2%
B4,0897.1%
C22,34638.8%
D21,84137.9%
E7,15612.4%
F1,5882.8%
G4970.9%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Eastbourne.

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 £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.37% 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 BN20, 150 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 47 violent, 0 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 29 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 101,686 residents the 2021 census counted in Eastbourne, that is 1.48 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 Darley Road, Eastbourne

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.

6 state and independent schools have a BN20 postcode: 4 primary, 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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Gildredge HouseAll-throughFree schools1,169
Willingdon Community SchoolSecondaryCommunity school1,117
Ocklynge Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy sponsor led720
Willingdon Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school421
Pashley Down Infant SchoolPrimaryCommunity school230
St John's Meads Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter162
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Eastbourne Rail StationRail2.2 km
Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail StationRail3.1 km
Polegate Rail StationRail5.1 km
Pevensey & Westham Rail StationRail6.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Darley Road, Eastbourne compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Darley Road, Eastbourne sits above that national figure — +103.2%.

Within Eastbourne the street ranks 117 of 1102 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £161,000 (+98.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,448 per square metre, across 65 of the 252 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 £29,500 to £1,150,000. 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.

Darley Road, 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Eastbourne house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Darley Road, Eastbourne?

The median price paid in Darley Road, Eastbourne across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 Darley Road, Eastbourne?

252 sales are on record for Darley Road, Eastbourne, the most recent completing on 13 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Darley Road, Eastbourne house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +79.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +31.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Darley Road, Eastbourne house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £477,500, set in 2024. 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 Darley Road, Eastbourne?

£3,448 per square metre, from the 65 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 13 Jan 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, “Darley Road, 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.