The Ridge, Hastings house prices

The Ridge, Hastings house prices are built from 383 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £175,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +80.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +29.1%.

HM Land Registry383 sales83 with floor areaLatest sale 1 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median The Ridge, Hastings 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 The Ridge, Hastings is £310,000 in 2026; the lowest is £44,250 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £44,250 to £310,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £98,256, so the real change over the whole record is +215.5% — about +3.78% 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: +80.2% in cash against +29.1% 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.

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 The Ridge, Hastings values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

70 of the sales on record are leasehold and 313 freehold — 18.3% 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 £176,000 and the median freehold sale £175,000 — a gap of -0.6%. 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 — +47.1%. 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 26 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 Hastings, 42.4% of 57,734 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.6% 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 Hastings at £1,006 a month as of Jun 2026 — £696 for a one-bedroom home and £1,098 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £175,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.90% 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 TN34, 477 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 132 violent, 10 burglary, 32 vehicle-related and 138 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.9 times busier.

Against the 90,995 residents the 2021 census counted in Hastings, that is 5.24 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 90,995 residents in Hastings across 40,451 households. 57.1% of those households own their home and 42.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

5 state and independent schools have a TN34 postcode: 4 primary, 1 secondary. 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. The Ridge, Hastings sits above that national figure — +11.1%.

Within Hastings the street ranks 243 of 498 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £143,250 (+22.2%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,143 per square metre, across 83 of the 383 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 £15,250 to £1,211,000. 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.

The Ridge, Hastings sits in Hastings, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Hastings at 8.1 times median local earnings of £34,700 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 nearby

• St Helens Road£165,000 median
• Mount Pleasant Road£82,000 median
• Priory Road£110,000 median
• Milward Road£101,500 median
• Elphinstone Road£157,975 median
• Cornwallis Gardens£76,500 median
• Hughenden Road£90,500 median
• Emmanuel Road£100,000 median
• St Georges Road£106,000 median
• Queens Road£80,000 median
• St Helens Park Road£193,225 median
• Stonefield Road£117,000 median
• Parker Road£144,500 median
• Manor Road£119,750 median
• High Street£169,000 median
• Robertson Terrace£112,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 103 the Ridge8 sales
• 443 the Ridge7 sales
• 63 the Ridge6 sales
• 378 the Ridge5 sales
• 101 the Ridge4 sales
• PENBUCKLES COTTAGE, SANDROCK HALL the Ridge4 sales
• 93 the Ridge4 sales
• 365 the Ridge4 sales
• 99 the Ridge4 sales
• 65 the Ridge4 sales
• 439 the Ridge4 sales
• 531 the Ridge4 sales
• 219 the Ridge4 sales
• 448 the Ridge4 sales
• 374 the Ridge4 sales
• 402 the Ridge4 sales
• 253 the Ridge4 sales
• 406 the Ridge3 sales
• SAN LORENZO COTTAGE, SANDROCK HALL the Ridge3 sales
• 85 the Ridge3 sales
• 480 the Ridge3 sales
• 411 the Ridge3 sales
• 43A the Ridge3 sales
• 9 the Ridge3 sales

Back to Hastings house prices.

What is the average house price in The Ridge, Hastings?

The median price paid in The Ridge, Hastings across every sale on the register is £175,000. 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 The Ridge, Hastings?

383 sales are on record for The Ridge, Hastings, the most recent completing on 1 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have The Ridge, Hastings house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +80.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +29.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were The Ridge, Hastings house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £310,000, set in 2026. 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 The Ridge, Hastings?

£2,143 per square metre, from the 83 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 1 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, “The Ridge, Hastings 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.