Princes Road, Eastbourne house prices are built from 207 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £185,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +32.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.1%.
Median price paid
£185,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+32.4%
Change in real terms
-4.1%
Median per m²
£2,356
HM Land Registry207 sales43 with floor areaLatest sale 26 May 2026
Section 01
How Princes Road, Eastbourne prices moved
The chart tracks the median Princes Road, Eastbourne house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £60,000 | £133,228 |
| 2000s | 8 | £148,000 | £269,612 |
| 2010s | 7 | £245,000 | £345,450 |
| 2020s | 4 | £300,000 | £306,522 |
The highest yearly median on record for Princes Road, Eastbourne is £337,500 in 2025; the lowest is £55,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £337,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +182.4% — about +3.52% 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: +32.4% in cash against -4.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £312,500 | £312,500 |
| 106 | 4 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 133 | 27 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £226,001 | £226,001 |
| 179 | 17 Dec 2025 | Detached | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 138 | 27 Nov 2025 | Detached | £334,000 | £341,261 |
| 30 | 27 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £291,000 | £297,326 |
| 9 | 17 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 97 | 15 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| 67 | 25 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| 11 | 18 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 36 | 1 May 2024 | Terraced | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| 47 | 5 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £291,724 |
| 102 | 1 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 177 | 25 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £479,950 | £518,567 |
| 101 | 7 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 169 | 7 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 17 | 30 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 13 | 26 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £428,677 |
| 74 | 29 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £321,500 | £372,486 |
| 6 | 20 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £342,000 | £396,237 |
| 97 | 15 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £287,000 | £362,608 |
| 26 | 28 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £282,000 | £356,290 |
| 124 | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 69 | 17 Jun 2021 | Detached | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| 151 | 9 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £250,000 | £315,860 |
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 Princes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Princes Road | £282,000 (2021) | £312,500 (2026) | +2.1% | -2.6% |
| 30 Princes Road | £222,500 (2017) | £291,000 (2025) | +3.4% | -0.2% |
| 9 Princes Road | £69,950 (1995) | £340,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 97 Princes Road | £189,950 (2006) | £335,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 67 Princes Road | £111,000 (2000) | £405,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 47 Princes Road | £53,000 (1996) | £270,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 177 Princes Road | £214,950 (2009) | £479,950 (2023) | +5.9% | +2.8% |
| 169 Princes Road | £65,500 (1998) | £305,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.1% |
| 13 Princes Road | £161,450 (2004) | £370,000 (2022) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 6 Princes Road | £202,000 (2010) | £342,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 151 Princes Road | £150,000 (2008) | £250,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +1.8% |
| 145 Princes Road | £63,000 (1995) | £352,000 (2021) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Princes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 92 | 44.4% | £178,000 | £45,750 – £479,950 |
| Semi-detached | 71 | 34.3% | £173,000 | £35,000 – £405,000 |
| Detached | 44 | 21.3% | £235,000 | £63,000 – £382,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Princes Road, Eastbourne
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 205 freehold — 1.0% 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 £162,654 and the median freehold sale £185,000 — a gap of +13.7%. 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 | 2 | 1.0% | £162,654 |
| Freehold | 205 | 99.0% | £185,000 |
A further 4 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 Princes 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 £185,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.55% 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 BN23, 178 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 50 violent, 2 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 57 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 1.75 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 Princes 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.
7 state and independent schools have a BN23 postcode: 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Catherine's College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,064 |
| The Turing School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 771 |
| West Rise Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 607 |
| Langney Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 465 |
| The Haven Church of England Methodist Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 418 |
| Shinewater Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 393 |
| Tollgate Community Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 335 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Pevensey & Westham Rail Station | Rail | 2.2 km |
| Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Pevensey Bay Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Eastbourne Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
Section 09
How Princes Road, Eastbourne compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Princes Road, Eastbourne sits above that national figure — +17.5%.
Within Eastbourne the street ranks 495 of 1102 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £161,000 (+14.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,356 per square metre, across 43 of the 207 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 £35,000 to £479,950. 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.
Princes 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
- Midway Quay£236,650 median
- Macquarie Quay£238,975 median
- Snowdon Close£85,000 median
- Golden Gate Way£175,000 median
- Caroline Way£225,000 median
- Madeira Way£195,000 median
- Santa Cruz Drive£152,000 median
- Phoenix Drive£203,000 median
- Long Beach View£187,500 median
- Priory Road£151,500 median
- Dominica Court£249,973 median
- Falmouth Close£90,500 median
- Sevenoaks Road£154,250 median
- Rotunda Road£103,500 median
- Broad Oak Close£90,000 median
- St Anthonys Avenue£160,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 139 Princes Road5 sales
- 49 Princes Road5 sales
- 67 Princes Road4 sales
- 13 Princes Road4 sales
- 145 Princes Road4 sales
- 77 Princes Road4 sales
- 9 Princes Road3 sales
- 97 Princes Road3 sales
- 177 Princes Road3 sales
- 187 Princes Road3 sales
- 135 Princes Road3 sales
- 171 Princes Road3 sales
- 144 Princes Road3 sales
- 117 Princes Road3 sales
- 89 Princes Road3 sales
- 46 Princes Road3 sales
- 159 Princes Road3 sales
- 140 Princes Road3 sales
- 45 Princes Road3 sales
- 58 Princes Road3 sales
- 64 Princes Road3 sales
- 26 Princes Road2 sales
- 30 Princes Road2 sales
- 47 Princes Road2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Princes Road, Eastbourne?
The median price paid in Princes Road, Eastbourne across every sale on the register is £185,000. 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 Princes Road, Eastbourne?
207 sales are on record for Princes Road, Eastbourne, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Princes Road, Eastbourne house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +32.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Princes Road, Eastbourne house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £337,500, set in 2025. 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 Princes Road, Eastbourne?
£2,356 per square metre, from the 43 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 26 May 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, “Princes 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.