Updown Hill, Haywards Heath house prices are built from 256 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 17 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £230,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +10.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.8%.
Median price paid
£230,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+10.7%
Change in real terms
-18.8%
Median per m²
£2,985
HM Land Registry256 sales64 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Updown Hill, Haywards Heath prices moved
The chart tracks the median Updown Hill, Haywards Heath house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £199,950 | £364,250 |
| 2010s | 9 | £233,000 | £328,530 |
| 2020s | 4 | £236,375 | £241,514 |
The highest yearly median on record for Updown Hill, Haywards Heath is £292,500 in 2016; the lowest is £166,475 in 2009. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £195,000 to £260,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £368,566, so the real change over the whole record is -25.8% — about -1.41% 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: +10.7% in cash against -18.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 41 Woodcote House | 17 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| Apartment 20 Woodcote House | 16 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £254,500 | £260,033 |
| 6 | 6 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| Apartment 10 Woodcote House | 27 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Apartment 2 Woodcote House | 14 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £243,000 | £248,283 |
| 19 | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £268,321 |
| Apartment 1 Woodcote House | 4 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| Apartment 27 Woodcote House | 4 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| Apartment 23 Woodcote House | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| 74 | 11 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| Apartment 20 Woodcote House | 26 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £263,000 | £284,161 |
| 17 | 22 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £267,500 | £289,023 |
| 78 | 13 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £461,500 | £498,632 |
| Apartment 24 Woodcote House | 9 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 22 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £280,500 | £324,984 |
| 64 | 7 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £520,000 | £602,465 |
| 8 | 26 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £278,061 |
| Apartment 4 Woodcote House | 20 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £231,717 |
| 60 | 19 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £518,000 | £600,148 |
| Apartment 32 Woodcote House | 11 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £262,000 | £303,550 |
| 16 | 30 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £244,000 | £282,695 |
| Apartment 14 Woodcote House | 27 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £289,647 |
| Apartment 22 Woodcote House | 31 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £253,000 | £293,122 |
| 28 | 12 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £422,000 | £488,924 |
| Apartment 15 Woodcote House | 29 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £341,783 |
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 Updown Hill, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 41 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £184,000 (2006) | £240,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.5% |
| APARTMENT 20 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £199,950 (2005) | £254,500 (2025) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| 6 Updown Hill | £225,000 (2003) | £440,000 (2025) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
| APARTMENT 10 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £180,000 (2006) | £245,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| APARTMENT 2 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £199,950 (2006) | £243,000 (2025) | +1.0% | -1.9% |
| 19 Updown Hill | £215,000 (2005) | £255,000 (2024) | +0.9% | -2.0% |
| APARTMENT 1 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £152,000 (2006) | £215,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| APARTMENT 27 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £176,000 (2006) | £260,000 (2024) | +2.2% | -0.8% |
| APARTMENT 23 WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill | £199,950 (2006) | £260,000 (2024) | +1.5% | -1.5% |
| 74 Updown Hill | £285,000 (2004) | £400,000 (2024) | +1.7% | -1.1% |
| 17 Updown Hill | £199,950 (2005) | £267,500 (2023) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 78 Updown Hill | £285,000 (2004) | £461,500 (2023) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Updown Hill, 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 | 171 | 66.8% | £199,950 | £125,500 – £375,000 |
| Terraced | 61 | 23.8% | £327,000 | £230,000 – £520,000 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 8.6% | £330,000 | £210,000 – £470,000 |
| Detached | 2 | 0.8% | £215,000 | £215,000 – £349,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Updown Hill, Haywards Heath
170 of the sales on record are leasehold and 86 freehold — 66.4% 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 £199,950 and the median freehold sale £328,500 — a gap of +64.3%. 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 | 170 | 66.4% | £199,950 |
| Freehold | 86 | 33.6% | £328,500 |
| New build | 91 | 35.5% | £210,000 |
| Existing home | 165 | 64.5% | £236,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -11.0%. 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 3 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 Updown Hill, 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 £230,000 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 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 Updown Hill, 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 Updown Hill, Haywards Heath compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Updown Hill, Haywards Heath sits above that national figure — +46.0%.
Within Haywards Heath the street ranks 561 of 763 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £262,500 (-12.4%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,985 per square metre, across 64 of the 256 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 £125,500 to £520,000. 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.
Updown Hill, 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
- Gordon Road£190,000 median
- Gower Road£182,500 median
- Renfields£365,000 median
- Hoblands£193,000 median
- The Welkin£263,000 median
- Middle Village£217,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- APARTMENT 22, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill6 sales
- APARTMENT 16, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill6 sales
- 24 Updown Hill6 sales
- APARTMENT 10, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill5 sales
- APARTMENT 27, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill5 sales
- APARTMENT 20, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 6 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 1, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 17 Updown Hill4 sales
- 8 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 32, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 28 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 15, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 11 Updown Hill4 sales
- 18 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 19, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 31, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 44 Updown Hill4 sales
- 52 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 34, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill4 sales
- 48 Updown Hill4 sales
- APARTMENT 41, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill3 sales
- APARTMENT 23, WOODCOTE HOUSE Updown Hill3 sales
- 74 Updown Hill3 sales
Back to Haywards Heath house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Updown Hill, Haywards Heath?
The median price paid in Updown Hill, Haywards Heath across every sale on the register is £230,000. 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 Updown Hill, Haywards Heath?
256 sales are on record for Updown Hill, Haywards Heath, the most recent completing on 17 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Updown Hill, Haywards Heath house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +10.7% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Updown Hill, Haywards Heath house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £292,500, set in 2016. 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 Updown Hill, Haywards Heath?
£2,985 per square metre, from the 64 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 17 Feb 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, “Updown Hill, 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.