Chester Avenue, Lancing house prices are built from 181 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £194,000. Across the 13 years from 2011 to 2024 the median moved +42.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.5%.
Median price paid
£194,000
Change in cash, 2011–2024
+42.1%
Change in real terms
-2.5%
Median per m²
£2,398
HM Land Registry181 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Chester Avenue, Lancing prices moved
The chart tracks the median Chester Avenue, Lancing house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £70,500 | £156,543 |
| 2000s | 8 | £165,000 | £300,581 |
| 2010s | 6 | £278,500 | £392,685 |
| 2020s | 4 | £293,750 | £300,136 |
The highest yearly median on record for Chester Avenue, Lancing is £415,000 in 2022; the lowest is £70,500 in 1998. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £70,500 to £293,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £146,184, so the real change over the whole record is +111.4% — about +2.92% 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: +42.1% in cash against -2.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 27 Mar 2026 | Detached | £445,000 | £445,000 |
| 60 | 13 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 18 | 28 Feb 2025 | Detached | £405,000 | £413,804 |
| 48 | 10 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| 12 Warnham Court | 23 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £184,142 |
| 9a | 24 May 2024 | Terraced | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| 3 | 8 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £267,500 | £281,474 |
| 64 | 9 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 4 Warnham Court | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 3a | 30 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £238,000 | £257,149 |
| 1 Warnham Court | 4 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 76 | 15 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £230,782 | £249,351 |
| 7 | 24 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £302,529 |
| 92 | 10 Jan 2023 | Detached | £405,000 | £437,586 |
| 25 | 25 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £432,000 | £500,509 |
| 12 | 2 Sep 2022 | Detached | £545,000 | £631,430 |
| 52 | 7 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £457,642 |
| 31 | 31 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 10a | 17 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £374,000 | £433,311 |
| 1 Warnham Court | 13 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £162,500 | £205,309 |
| 43 | 30 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £543,280 |
| 88 | 15 Jan 2021 | Detached | £450,000 | £568,548 |
| 61 | 15 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £416,935 |
| 27 | 14 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £467,473 |
| 96 | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £375,000 | £485,537 |
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 Chester Avenue, Lancing values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 Chester Avenue | £66,000 (1996) | £445,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 60 Chester Avenue | £126,000 (2001) | £390,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 48 Chester Avenue | £232,500 (2015) | £380,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.2% |
| 12 WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue | £83,000 (2002) | £175,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 9A Chester Avenue | £172,000 (2005) | £425,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +1.9% |
| 3 Chester Avenue | £33,500 (1998) | £267,500 (2024) | +8.3% | +5.5% |
| 4 WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue | £67,500 (2002) | £170,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 3A Chester Avenue | £32,000 (1999) | £238,000 (2023) | +8.7% | +5.9% |
| 1 WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue | £64,950 (2001) | £180,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 76 Chester Avenue | £305,000 (2015) | £230,782 (2023) | -3.4% | -6.6% |
| 7 Chester Avenue | £33,000 (1997) | £280,000 (2023) | +8.6% | +5.8% |
| 25 Chester Avenue | £118,000 (2001) | £432,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Chester Avenue, Lancing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 77 | 42.5% | £219,950 | £54,500 – £432,000 |
| Detached | 47 | 26.0% | £250,000 | £66,000 – £600,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 41 | 22.7% | £99,000 | £26,500 – £280,000 |
| Terraced | 16 | 8.8% | £195,000 | £33,500 – £425,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Chester Avenue, Lancing
40 of the sales on record are leasehold and 141 freehold — 22.1% 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 £100,000 and the median freehold sale £220,000 — a gap of +120.0%. 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 | 40 | 22.1% | £100,000 |
| Freehold | 141 | 77.9% | £220,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.6% | £172,000 |
| Existing home | 180 | 99.4% | £194,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -11.6%. 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 Chester Avenue, Lancing
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Adur, 39.7% of 28,960 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 100 | 0.3% |
| B | 2,809 | 9.7% |
| C | 8,587 | 29.7% |
| D | 12,259 | 42.3% |
| E | 4,116 | 14.2% |
| F | 855 | 3.0% |
| G | 234 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Adur at £1,393 a month as of Jun 2026 — £988 for a one-bedroom home and £1,587 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £194,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.62% 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 BN15, 158 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 44 violent, 2 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 47 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 64,544 residents the 2021 census counted in Adur, that is 2.45 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 Chester Avenue, Lancing
The 2021 census counted 64,544 residents in Adur across 27,678 households. 72.7% of those households own their home and 27.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
6 state and independent schools have a BN15 postcode: 4 primary, 1 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sir Robert Woodard Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,427 |
| Seaside Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 620 |
| North Lancing Primary School | Primary | Community school | 407 |
| The Globe Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 379 |
| Sompting Village Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Boundstone Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 139 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lancing Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| East Worthing Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Shoreham-by-Sea (Sussex) Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Worthing Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
Section 09
How Chester Avenue, Lancing compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Chester Avenue, Lancing sits above that national figure — +23.2%.
Within Lancing the street ranks 124 of 294 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £171,000 (+13.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,398 per square metre, across 35 of the 181 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 £26,500 to £600,000. 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.
Chester Avenue, Lancing sits in Adur, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Adur at 9.2 times median local earnings of £41,005 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
- Brighton Road£151,000 median
- Penhill Road£133,000 median
- Freshbrook Road£116,000 median
- Sompting Road£126,250 median
- South Street£115,000 median
- Crabtree Lane£157,000 median
- West Way£153,000 median
- Western Road£184,500 median
- Cokeham Road£128,975 median
- Kings Road£201,000 median
- Cecil Road£146,500 median
- Ingleside Crescent£184,975 median
- First Avenue£169,000 median
- Old Salts Farm Road£117,000 median
- North Farm Road£165,000 median
- Annweir Avenue£168,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 1, WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue6 sales
- 8, WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue6 sales
- 3A Chester Avenue4 sales
- 27 Chester Avenue4 sales
- 24 Chester Avenue4 sales
- 70 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 60 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 4, WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue3 sales
- 7 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 25 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 12 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 31 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 22 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 84 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 72 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 20 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 4 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 9 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 10, WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue3 sales
- 11A Chester Avenue3 sales
- 45 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 11, WARNHAM COURT Chester Avenue3 sales
- 6 Chester Avenue3 sales
- 48 Chester Avenue2 sales
Back to Lancing house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Chester Avenue, Lancing?
The median price paid in Chester Avenue, Lancing across every sale on the register is £194,000. 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 Chester Avenue, Lancing?
181 sales are on record for Chester Avenue, Lancing, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Chester Avenue, Lancing house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.1% between 2011 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Chester Avenue, Lancing house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £415,000, set in 2022. 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 Chester Avenue, Lancing?
£2,398 per square metre, from the 35 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 27 Mar 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, “Chester Avenue, Lancing 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.