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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | £59,995 | £133,217 |
| 2000s | 6 | £200,000 | £364,341 |
| 2010s | 9 | £323,000 | £455,430 |
| 2020s | 3 | £415,000 | £424,022 |
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 9 St Gabriel House, 4 | 13 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £675,000 | £675,000 |
| Flat 2 Croham Cliff, 15 | 20 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| Flat 6 Sarnia House, 17 | 29 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| Flat 2 64 | 17 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| Flat 3 St Gabriel House, 4 | 5 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £683,955 |
| Flat 7 Sarnia House, 17 | 1 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £185,194 |
| Flat 6 St Saviour House, 2 | 30 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £630,000 | £662,910 |
| Flat 1 Westfield, 5 | 15 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 21 | 28 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £985,000 | £1,036,455 |
| Flat 12 St Gabriel House, 4 | 5 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £351,000 | £369,336 |
| Flat 2 64 | 28 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £465,000 | £489,291 |
| Flat 1 23 | 16 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| Flat 8 St Saviour House, 2 | 9 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| Flat 6 St Emmanuel House, 6 | 25 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £420,000 | £453,793 |
| Flat 10 Meads Gate, 27 | 2 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £280,920 |
| 25 All Saints, 22 | 20 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £378,161 |
| 1a | 10 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £502,414 |
| Flat 4 St Saviour House, 2 | 29 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £620,000 | £718,324 |
| Flat 5 St Emmanuel House, 6 | 16 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| Flat 15 St Gabriel House, 4 | 1 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £477,735 | £553,497 |
| 23 All Saints, 22 | 22 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| Flat 5 St Gabriel House, 4 | 6 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| Flat 5 Sarnia House, 17 | 25 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| Flat 6 St Gabriel House, 4 | 28 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £390,000 | £451,849 |
| Flat 3 Sarnia House, 17 | 21 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £192,000 | £242,581 |
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.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real 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% |
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 type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 222 | 88.1% | £305,000 | £30,000 – £875,000 |
| Detached | 18 | 7.1% | £525,000 | £29,500 – £1,150,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9 | 3.6% | £435,500 | £139,000 – £985,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 1.2% | £70,000 | £62,000 – £118,500 |
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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 222 | 88.1% | £316,000 |
| Freehold | 30 | 11.9% | £445,250 |
| New build | 80 | 31.7% | £375,000 |
| Existing home | 172 | 68.3% | £273,000 |
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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 89 | 0.2% |
| B | 4,089 | 7.1% |
| C | 22,346 | 38.8% |
| D | 21,841 | 37.9% |
| E | 7,156 | 12.4% |
| F | 1,588 | 2.8% |
| G | 497 | 0.9% |
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gildredge House | All-through | Free schools | 1,169 |
| Willingdon Community School | Secondary | Community school | 1,117 |
| Ocklynge Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 720 |
| Willingdon Primary School | Primary | Community school | 421 |
| Pashley Down Infant School | Primary | Community school | 230 |
| St John's Meads Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 162 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Eastbourne Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Polegate Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
| Pevensey & Westham Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
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
- Silverdale Road£164,500 median
- Granville Road£116,000 median
- St Johns Road£175,000 median
- Victoria Drive£225,000 median
- Blackwater Road£147,000 median
- Meads Road£175,000 median
- Grassington Road£183,500 median
- Carlisle Road£184,950 median
- Meads Street£118,000 median
- Eastbourne Road£188,500 median
- Bolsover Road£235,000 median
- Fairfield Road£97,500 median
- Staveley Road£240,000 median
- Rockhurst Drive£107,000 median
- Chesterfield Road£200,000 median
- Greys Road£189,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, 64 Darley Road8 sales
- FLAT 1, LABURNUM HOUSE, 9 Darley Road5 sales
- FLAT 5, ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road4 sales
- 31, ALL SAINTS, 22 Darley Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, STANTON PRIOR, 71 Darley Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, LYNMEAD, 3 Darley Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 7, SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, ST SAVIOUR HOUSE, 2 Darley Road3 sales
- 21 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 23 Darley Road3 sales
- 1A Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, ST EMMANUEL HOUSE, 6 Darley Road3 sales
- 23, ALL SAINTS, 22 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 6, ST GABRIEL HOUSE, 4 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road3 sales
- 10, ALL SAINTS, 22 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 16, ST EMMANUEL HOUSE, 6 Darley Road3 sales
- 12, ALL SAINTS, 22 Darley Road3 sales
- 31 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, SARNIA HOUSE, 17 Darley Road3 sales
- FLAT 5, ST SAVIOUR HOUSE, 2 Darley Road3 sales
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.