First Avenue, Hove house prices

First Avenue, Hove house prices are built from 539 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +23.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.6%.

HM Land Registry539 sales95 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Apr 2026

The chart tracks the median First Avenue, Hove 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.

The highest yearly median on record for First Avenue, Hove is £435,000 in 2024; the lowest is £42,250 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £42,250 to £367,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £93,815, so the real change over the whole record is +299.7% — about +4.73% 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: +23.4% in cash against -10.6% 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 First Avenue, Hove values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

515 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 95.5% 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 £160,000 and the median freehold sale £165,000 — a gap of +3.1%. 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 — -31.9%. 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 14 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 Brighton and Hove, 42.0% of 168,453 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% 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 Brighton and Hove at £1,812 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,191 for a one-bedroom home and £1,799 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £160,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.59% 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 BN3, 448 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 135 violent, 8 burglary, 17 vehicle-related and 107 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.7 times busier.

Against the 277,103 residents the 2021 census counted in Brighton and Hove, that is 1.62 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 277,103 residents in Brighton and Hove across 121,402 households. 52.2% of those households own their home and 47.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

15 state and independent schools have a BN3 postcode: 10 primary, 4 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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. First Avenue, Hove sits above that national figure — +1.6%.

Within Hove the street ranks 389 of 457 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £200,202 (-20.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,036 per square metre, across 95 of the 539 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 £2,000 to £1,100,000. 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.

First Avenue, Hove sits in Brighton and Hove, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Brighton and Hove at 10.6 times median local earnings of £39,137 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

• The Drive£170,000 median
• Kingsway£180,000 median
• New Church Road£200,000 median
• Lansdowne Place£152,900 median
• Wilbury Road£175,000 median
• Holland Road£167,500 median
• Cromwell Road£167,000 median
• St Aubyns£145,000 median
• Brunswick Square£200,000 median
• Furze Hill£180,000 median
• Westbourne Street£157,000 median
• Palmeira Avenue£225,000 median
• Sackville Road£142,000 median
• Brunswick Place£169,750 median
• Portland Road£175,000 median
• Grand Avenue£245,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 1, 18 First Avenue8 sales
• FLAT 3, 22 First Avenue8 sales
• LOWER GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 18 First Avenue7 sales
• FLAT 3, 9 First Avenue7 sales
• FLAT 8, 21 First Avenue6 sales
• LOWER GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 21 First Avenue6 sales
• FLAT 4, 14 First Avenue6 sales
• FLAT 5, 38 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 7, 21 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 2, 25 First Avenue5 sales
• 40B First Avenue5 sales
• BASEMENT, 54 First Avenue5 sales
• 39 First Avenue5 sales
• 9A First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 1, 17 First Avenue5 sales
• BASEMENT, 48 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 4, 17 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 4, 3 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 1, 35 First Avenue5 sales
• FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 50 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 3, 38 First Avenue5 sales
• FLAT 4, 22 First Avenue4 sales
• FLAT 3, 17 First Avenue4 sales
• FLAT 5, 30 First Avenue4 sales

Back to Hove house prices.

What is the average house price in First Avenue, Hove?

The median price paid in First Avenue, Hove across every sale on the register is £160,000. 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 First Avenue, Hove?

539 sales are on record for First Avenue, Hove, the most recent completing on 13 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have First Avenue, Hove house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +23.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were First Avenue, Hove house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £435,000, set in 2024. 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 First Avenue, Hove?

£3,036 per square metre, from the 95 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 13 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, “First Avenue, Hove 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.