Sold Price History


Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house prices

Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house prices are built from 236 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 9 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £217,500. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +2.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -20.9%.

Median price paid

£217,500

Change in cash, 2012–2022

+2.0%

Change in real terms

-20.9%

Median per m²

£1,953

HM Land Registry236 sales49 with floor areaLatest sale 9 Sep 2025

Section 01

How Devonshire Place, Eastbourne prices moved

The chart tracks the median Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house prices by year, median price paid 1997 to 2022
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
1990s3£74,250£164,870
2000s9£190,000£346,124
2010s9£290,000£408,900
2020s3£280,000£286,087
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Devonshire Place, Eastbourne is £420,000 in 2019; the lowest is £71,500 in 1998. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £74,250 to £299,950.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £157,432, so the real change over the whole record is +120.7% — about +3.22% 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: +2.0% in cash against -20.9% 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 12a the Garden Court, 159 Sep 2025Flat or maisonette£350,000£357,609
Flat 1 Henley House, 829 Aug 2025Flat or maisonette£370,000£378,043
Flat 21 Merlynn, 5 – 77 Mar 2025Flat or maisonette£255,000£260,543
Flat 22 Tavistock, 12 – 1424 Jan 2025Flat or maisonette£240,000£245,217
Flat 3 Tavistock, 12 – 1416 Dec 2024Flat or maisonette£280,000£294,627
Flat 9 the Garden Court, 1527 Sep 2024Flat or maisonette£790,000£831,269
Flat 22 Merlynn, 5 – 75 Apr 2024Flat or maisonette£310,000£326,194
Flat 20 Merlynn, 5 – 718 Aug 2023Flat or maisonette£268,000£289,563
Flat 6 Henley House, 816 Jun 2023Flat or maisonette£265,000£286,322
Flat 12 Tavistock, 12 – 1415 Dec 2022Flat or maisonette£299,950£347,518
Flat 1 Beltry Court25 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£225,000£260,682
Flat 18 Tavistock, 12 – 1429 Jul 2022Flat or maisonette£425,000£492,399
Flat 9 Pearl Court30 Jun 2022Flat or maisonette£360,000£417,091
Flat 2 Tavistock, 12 – 1411 Apr 2022Flat or maisonette£232,500£269,371
Flat 4 Sherwood Court, 223 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£235,000£272,268
Flat 8 the Garden Court, 1516 Feb 2022Flat or maisonette£425,000£492,399
Flat 3 Merlynn, 5 – 715 Dec 2021Flat or maisonette£270,000£341,129
Flat 8 Pearl Court30 Nov 2021Flat or maisonette£310,000£391,667
Flat 16 Merlynn, 5 – 78 Nov 2021Flat or maisonette£260,000£328,495
Flat 7 Sherwood Court, 230 Sep 2021Flat or maisonette£170,000£214,785
Flat 4 Chatsworth House, 1027 Sep 2021Flat or maisonette£260,000£328,495
Flat 9 Merlynn, 5 – 730 Jul 2021Flat or maisonette£340,000£429,570
Flat 20 Tavistock, 12 – 1417 Jun 2021Flat or maisonette£340,000£429,570
Flat 7 Merlynn, 5 – 75 Mar 2021Flat or maisonette£282,000£356,290
Flat 3 Henley House, 819 Feb 2021Flat or maisonette£275,000£347,446
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 Devonshire Place, Eastbourne values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
FLAT 12A the GARDEN COURT, 15 Devonshire Place£135,000 (1999)£350,000 (2025)+3.7%+1.0%
FLAT 1 HENLEY HOUSE, 8 Devonshire Place£250,000 (2018)£370,000 (2025)+5.8%+1.8%
FLAT 21 MERLYNN, 5 – 7 Devonshire Place£240,000 (2008)£255,000 (2025)+0.4%-2.5%
FLAT 3 TAVISTOCK, 12 – 14 Devonshire Place£237,000 (2010)£280,000 (2024)+1.2%-1.8%
FLAT 9 the GARDEN COURT, 15 Devonshire Place£285,000 (1999)£790,000 (2024)+4.2%+1.4%
FLAT 22 MERLYNN, 5 – 7 Devonshire Place£140,000 (2002)£310,000 (2024)+3.7%+0.9%
FLAT 20 MERLYNN, 5 – 7 Devonshire Place£220,000 (2004)£268,000 (2023)+1.0%-1.8%
FLAT 6 HENLEY HOUSE, 8 Devonshire Place£115,000 (2005)£265,000 (2023)+4.7%+1.8%
FLAT 12 TAVISTOCK, 12 – 14 Devonshire Place£142,500 (2013)£299,950 (2022)+8.6%+5.9%
FLAT 1 BELTRY COURT Devonshire Place£56,000 (1999)£225,000 (2022)+6.2%+3.7%
FLAT 18 TAVISTOCK, 12 – 14 Devonshire Place£335,000 (2014)£425,000 (2022)+3.0%+0.3%
FLAT 9 PEARL COURT Devonshire Place£215,000 (2007)£360,000 (2022)+3.5%+0.7%
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. Devonshire Place, Eastbourne is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette23499.2%£215,000£51,500 – £790,000
Semi-detached20.8%£397,000£397,000 – £730,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Devonshire Place, Eastbourne

234 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2 freehold — 99.2% 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 £215,000 and the median freehold sale £563,500 — a gap of +162.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold23499.2%£215,000
Freehold20.8%£563,500
New build177.2%£155,000
Existing home21992.8%£225,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -31.1%. 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 6 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 Devonshire Place, 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 £217,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.42% 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.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Devonshire Place, 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.

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
The Cavendish SchoolAll-throughAcademy converter1,399
Ratton SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter1,183
Motcombe Infants' SchoolPrimaryCommunity school219
East Sussex College Group16 plusFurther education
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Eastbourne Rail StationRail0.5 km
Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail StationRail2.6 km
Polegate Rail StationRail5.8 km
Pevensey & Westham Rail StationRail5.9 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Devonshire Place, Eastbourne compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Devonshire Place, Eastbourne sits above that national figure — +38.1%.

Within Eastbourne the street ranks 336 of 1102 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £161,000 (+35.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,953 per square metre, across 49 of the 236 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 £51,500 to £790,000. 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.

Devonshire Place, 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 Devonshire Place, Eastbourne?

The median price paid in Devonshire Place, Eastbourne across every sale on the register is £217,500. 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 Devonshire Place, Eastbourne?

236 sales are on record for Devonshire Place, Eastbourne, the most recent completing on 9 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +2.0% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -20.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Devonshire Place, Eastbourne house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £420,000, set in 2019. 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 Devonshire Place, Eastbourne?

£1,953 per square metre, from the 49 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 9 Sep 2025. 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, “Devonshire Place, 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.