Whitelands, Haywards Heath house prices are built from 133 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 11 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,000. Across the 16 years from 2009 to 2025 the median moved +69.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +5.1%.
Median price paid
£120,000
Change in cash, 2009–2025
+69.0%
Change in real terms
+5.1%
Median per m²
£3,934
HM Land Registry133 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 11 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Whitelands, Haywards Heath prices moved
The chart tracks the median Whitelands, Haywards Heath 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 | £50,125 | £111,301 |
| 2000s | 7 | £122,000 | £222,248 |
| 2010s | 1 | £200,000 | £282,000 |
| 2020s | 1 | £245,000 | £250,326 |
The highest yearly median on record for Whitelands, Haywards Heath is £245,000 in 2025; the lowest is £45,475 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £245,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,583, so the real change over the whole record is +134.9% — about +2.89% 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: +69.0% in cash against +5.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 14 Chailey Court | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £202,500 | £206,902 |
| Flat 29 Chailey Court | 6 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Flat 15 Chailey Court | 27 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Flat 28 Chailey Court | 17 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £167,500 | £171,141 |
| Flat 5 Walstead Lodge | 15 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £252,000 | £257,478 |
| Flat 30 Chailey Court | 31 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| Flat 50 Horsted House | 16 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £263,060 |
| Flat 4 Walstead Lodge | 13 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £199,885 |
| Flat 37 Horsted House | 29 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £248,506 |
| Flat 46 Horsted House | 31 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £243,103 |
| Flat 29 Chailey Court | 8 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £283,854 |
| Flat 7 Walstead Lodge | 28 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £249,096 |
| Flat 43 Horsted House | 19 Aug 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £272,268 |
| Flat 39 Horsted House | 12 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,250 | £260,972 |
| Flat 45 Horsted House | 12 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £214,000 | £270,376 |
| Flat 49 Horsted House | 23 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £227,500 | £287,433 |
| Flat 6 Walstead Lodge | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| Flat 45 Horsted House | 28 May 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £196,000 | £253,774 |
| Flat 35 Horsted House | 4 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £255,056 |
| Flat 15 Chailey Court | 7 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £238,706 |
| 42 Horsted House | 28 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £279,868 |
| 49 Horsted House | 3 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £219,950 | £293,128 |
| Flat 5 Walstead Lodge | 24 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £306,226 |
| 19 Chailey Court | 20 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £244,981 |
| 41 Horsted House | 11 Apr 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £239,537 |
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 Whitelands, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 29 CHAILEY COURT Whitelands | £245,000 (2022) | £245,000 (2025) | 0.0% | -4.1% |
| FLAT 15 CHAILEY COURT Whitelands | £182,500 (2019) | £245,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 5 WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands | £139,000 (2012) | £252,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 4 WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands | £180,000 (2016) | £185,000 (2023) | +0.4% | -3.2% |
| FLAT 7 WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands | £173,000 (2014) | £215,000 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.0% |
| FLAT 45 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £196,000 (2020) | £214,000 (2021) | +9.2% | +6.5% |
| 42 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £60,000 (1998) | £210,000 (2018) | +6.5% | +4.1% |
| 49 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £92,000 (2001) | £219,950 (2018) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
| 41 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £49,500 (1999) | £176,000 (2017) | +7.3% | +4.9% |
| 13 CHAILEY COURT Whitelands | £146,000 (2004) | £185,000 (2016) | +2.0% | -0.4% |
| 50 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £48,000 (1996) | £196,000 (2015) | +7.7% | +5.3% |
| 37 HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands | £72,500 (1999) | £180,000 (2014) | +6.3% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Whitelands, 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 | 128 | 96.2% | £122,500 | £35,000 – £252,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 2.3% | £59,950 | £49,250 – £111,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.5% | £40,000 | £40,000 – £67,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Whitelands, Haywards Heath
133 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 133 | 100.0% | £120,000 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
A further 1 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 Whitelands, 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 £120,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.23% 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 Whitelands, 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 Whitelands, Haywards Heath compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Whitelands, Haywards Heath sits below that national figure — -23.8%.
Within Haywards Heath the street ranks 741 of 763 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £262,500 (-54.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,934 per square metre, across 5 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 £35,000 to £252,000. 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.
Whitelands, 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
- 42, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands6 sales
- 20, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands5 sales
- 27, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands5 sales
- 7, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands5 sales
- FLAT 5, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands4 sales
- 49, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands4 sales
- 25, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands4 sales
- 31, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands4 sales
- 30, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands4 sales
- 4, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands4 sales
- 16, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands4 sales
- 46, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands4 sales
- FLAT 7, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands3 sales
- 41, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands3 sales
- 13, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands3 sales
- 50, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands3 sales
- 18, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands3 sales
- 10, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands3 sales
- 51, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands3 sales
- 38, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands3 sales
- FLAT 29, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands2 sales
- FLAT 15, CHAILEY COURT Whitelands2 sales
- FLAT 4, WALSTEAD LODGE Whitelands2 sales
- FLAT 45, HORSTED HOUSE Whitelands2 sales
Back to Haywards Heath house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Whitelands, Haywards Heath?
The median price paid in Whitelands, Haywards Heath across every sale on the register is £120,000. 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 Whitelands, Haywards Heath?
133 sales are on record for Whitelands, Haywards Heath, the most recent completing on 11 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Whitelands, Haywards Heath house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +69.0% between 2009 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +5.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Whitelands, Haywards Heath house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £245,000, 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 Whitelands, Haywards Heath?
£3,934 per square metre, from the 5 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 11 Jul 2025. 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, “Whitelands, 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.