Western Road, Haywards Heath house prices

Western Road, Haywards Heath house prices are built from 264 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £232,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +14.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.0%.

HM Land Registry264 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median Western Road, Haywards Heath 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 Western Road, Haywards Heath is £570,000 in 2025; the lowest is £59,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £67,500 to £515,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £149,882, so the real change over the whole record is +243.6% — about +4.06% 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: +14.5% in cash against -18.0% 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 Western Road, Haywards Heath values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

16 of the sales on record are leasehold and 248 freehold — 6.1% 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 £101,498 and the median freehold sale £246,500 — a gap of +142.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -84.7%. 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 7 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 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.

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 £232,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.83% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Western Road, Haywards Heath sits above that national figure — +47.6%.

Within Haywards Heath the street ranks 554 of 763 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £262,500 (-11.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,626 per square metre, across 48 of the 264 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 £29,000 to £800,000. 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.

Western 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.

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
• 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
• Middle Village£217,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 56 Western Road6 sales
• 128 Western Road6 sales
• 62 Western Road6 sales
• 64 Western Road5 sales
• 105 Western Road5 sales
• 139 Western Road4 sales
• 159 Western Road4 sales
• 157 Western Road4 sales
• 160 Western Road4 sales
• 37 Western Road4 sales
• 55 Western Road4 sales
• 120 Western Road4 sales
• 58 Western Road4 sales
• 177 Western Road4 sales
• 10 Western Road4 sales
• 66 Western Road4 sales
• 163 Western Road4 sales
• 63 Western Road4 sales
• 161 Western Road4 sales
• 6 Western Road3 sales
• 8 Western Road3 sales
• 103A Western Road3 sales
• 7 Western Road3 sales
• 126 Western Road3 sales

Back to Haywards Heath house prices.

What is the average house price in Western Road, Haywards Heath?

The median price paid in Western Road, Haywards Heath across every sale on the register is £232,500. 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 Western Road, Haywards Heath?

264 sales are on record for Western Road, Haywards Heath, the most recent completing on 20 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Western Road, Haywards Heath house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +14.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Western Road, Haywards Heath house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £570,000, 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 Western Road, Haywards Heath?

£2,626 per square metre, from the 48 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 20 Apr 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, “Western 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.