Colwell Road, Haywards Heath house prices are built from 133 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 28 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +47.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.7%.
Median price paid
£155,000
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+47.1%
Change in real terms
+6.7%
Median per m²
£2,795
HM Land Registry133 sales18 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Colwell Road, Haywards Heath prices moved
The chart tracks the median Colwell Road, Haywards Heath 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £55,500 | £123,236 |
| 2000s | 6 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2010s | 3 | £202,500 | £285,525 |
| 2020s | 1 | £234,600 | £239,700 |
The highest yearly median on record for Colwell Road, Haywards Heath is £340,000 in 2019; the lowest is £55,500 in 1997. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £55,500 to £234,600.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,677, so the real change over the whole record is +131.0% — about +3.41% 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: +47.1% in cash against +6.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 28 Jan 2026 | Detached | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| Mulberry Cottage | 6 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £607,500 | £607,500 |
| 2 the Willows | 3 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| Flat 12 Francislea | 29 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £244,000 | £249,304 |
| Flat 7 Francislea | 3 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £241,000 | £246,239 |
| 7 | 18 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £380,500 | £400,377 |
| 6 | 3 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| Clovelly | 5 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £417,500 | £439,310 |
| Plum Cottage | 10 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £498,000 | £538,069 |
| Flat 1 Francislea | 22 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £237,701 |
| Flat 8 Francislea | 4 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| Flat 10 Francislea | 15 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £235,540 |
| Flat 10 Lockhart Court | 15 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £234,600 | £271,804 |
| Flat 19 Lockhart Court | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| Flat 15 Lockhart Court | 25 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| Flat 4 Lockhart Court | 1 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| Flat 1 Lockhart Court | 13 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £193,600 | £224,302 |
| 6 | 27 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £320,000 | £404,301 |
| Mulberry Cottage | 15 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £470,000 | £593,817 |
| 2 | 14 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £334,000 | £432,452 |
| Flat 10 Lockhart Court | 30 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £222,500 | £288,085 |
| Flat 7 Lockhart Court | 16 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £236,295 |
| 4 the Willows | 25 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £340,000 | £444,712 |
| Plum Cottage | 20 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £442,500 | £578,780 |
| Kildare | 16 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £542,811 |
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 Colwell Road, Haywards Heath values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Colwell Road | £83,500 (1999) | £310,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| MULBERRY COTTAGE Colwell Road | £395,000 (2015) | £607,500 (2026) | +4.0% | +0.8% |
| 2 the WILLOWS Colwell Road | £150,000 (2008) | £370,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 12 FRANCISLEA Colwell Road | £58,000 (1997) | £244,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| FLAT 7 FRANCISLEA Colwell Road | £59,950 (1997) | £241,000 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| 6 Colwell Road | £95,500 (1999) | £335,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.4% |
| PLUM COTTAGE Colwell Road | £395,000 (2015) | £498,000 (2023) | +2.9% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 1 FRANCISLEA Colwell Road | £46,000 (1997) | £220,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| FLAT 8 FRANCISLEA Colwell Road | £48,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| FLAT 10 FRANCISLEA Colwell Road | £127,950 (2013) | £218,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.4% |
| FLAT 10 LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road | £105,000 (2002) | £234,600 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| FLAT 19 LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road | £66,000 (2001) | £240,000 (2022) | +6.3% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Colwell Road, Haywards Heath 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 | 84 | 63.2% | £112,500 | £37,800 – £260,000 |
| Terraced | 28 | 21.1% | £198,000 | £75,500 – £380,500 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 11.3% | £395,000 | £67,150 – £607,500 |
| Detached | 6 | 4.5% | £310,000 | £83,500 – £675,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Colwell Road, Haywards Heath
85 of the sales on record are leasehold and 48 freehold — 63.9% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £278,750 — a gap of +132.3%. 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 | 85 | 63.9% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 48 | 36.1% | £278,750 |
| New build | 7 | 5.3% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 126 | 94.7% | £157,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.8%. 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 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 Colwell Road, Haywards Heath
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Lewes, 42.2% of 49,257 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 292 | 0.6% |
| B | 5,294 | 10.7% |
| C | 15,189 | 30.8% |
| D | 18,836 | 38.2% |
| E | 7,179 | 14.6% |
| F | 1,948 | 4.0% |
| G | 519 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Lewes at £1,323 a month as of Jun 2026 — £917 for a one-bedroom home and £1,495 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £155,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.24% 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 RH16, 151 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 65 violent, 5 burglary, 10 vehicle-related and 28 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 99,905 residents the 2021 census counted in Lewes, that is 1.51 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 Colwell Road, Haywards Heath
The 2021 census counted 99,905 residents in Lewes across 43,688 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a RH16 postcode: 8 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oathall Community College | Secondary | Community school | 1,341 |
| Lindfield Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 656 |
| Harlands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 453 |
| Warden Park Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 453 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 434 |
| Bolnore Village Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 424 |
| Northlands Wood Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 419 |
| St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 418 |
| Blackthorns Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 203 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Haywards Heath Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Wivelsfield Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
| Burgess Hill Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
| Horsted Keynes (Bluebell Railway) | Metro or underground | 6.2 km |
Section 09
How Colwell Road, Haywards Heath compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Colwell Road, Haywards Heath sits below that national figure — -1.6%.
Within Haywards Heath the street ranks 715 of 763 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £262,500 (-41.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,795 per square metre, across 18 of the 133 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 £37,800 to £675,000. 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.
Colwell Road, Haywards Heath sits in Lewes, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Lewes at 9.7 times median local earnings of £39,798 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
- High Street£317,000 median
- Church Road£167,000 median
- Great Heathmead£130,500 median
- Paddockhall Road£175,000 median
- Harlands Road£185,000 median
- Boltro Road£192,500 median
- Southdowns Park£200,000 median
- Heath Road£99,500 median
- College Road£290,000 median
- Western Road£232,500 median
- Updown Hill£230,000 median
- Gordon Road£190,000 median
- Gower Road£182,500 median
- Renfields£365,000 median
- Hoblands£193,000 median
- The Welkin£263,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 6 Colwell Road8 sales
- 2 Colwell Road6 sales
- FLAT 1, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road5 sales
- FLAT 8, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road5 sales
- FLAT 10, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road5 sales
- FLAT 19, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road5 sales
- MULBERRY COTTAGE Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 12, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 15, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road4 sales
- FLAT 9, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road4 sales
- 2, the WILLOWS Colwell Road3 sales
- PLUM COTTAGE Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 10, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 8, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 12, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 11, FRANCISLEA Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 17, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road3 sales
- WISTERIA COTTAGE Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 14, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road3 sales
- 3 Colwell Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, LOCKHART COURT Colwell Road3 sales
Back to Haywards Heath house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Colwell Road, Haywards Heath?
The median price paid in Colwell Road, Haywards Heath across every sale on the register is £155,000. 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 Colwell Road, Haywards Heath?
133 sales are on record for Colwell Road, Haywards Heath, the most recent completing on 28 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Colwell Road, Haywards Heath house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +47.1% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Colwell Road, Haywards Heath house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £340,000, 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 Colwell Road, Haywards Heath?
£2,795 per square metre, from the 18 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 28 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, “Colwell Road, Haywards Heath 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.