North Way, Lewes house prices are built from 76 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 30 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £305,000. Across the 11 years from 2002 to 2013 the median moved +48.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.1%.
Median price paid
£305,000
Change in cash, 2002–2013
+48.3%
Change in real terms
+12.1%
Median per m²
£3,732
HM Land Registry76 sales23 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jan 2026
Section 01
How North Way, Lewes prices moved
The chart tracks the median North Way, Lewes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2013. 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 | 1 | £87,500 | £194,291 |
| 2000s | 4 | £222,500 | £405,329 |
| 2010s | 1 | £330,000 | £465,300 |
The highest yearly median on record for North Way, Lewes is £330,000 in 2013; the lowest is £87,500 in 1997. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £87,500 to £330,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £185,526, so the real change over the whole record is +159.4% — about +6.14% 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: +48.3% in cash against +12.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 30 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £686,000 | £686,000 |
| 65 | 4 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £645,000 | £659,022 |
| 29 | 30 Jul 2025 | Detached | £675,000 | £689,674 |
| 6 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £511,500 | £522,620 |
| 32 | 15 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 15 | 13 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £777,000 | £817,590 |
| 43 | 20 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £660,000 | £713,103 |
| 24 | 9 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 22 | 29 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £725,000 | £839,975 |
| 59 | 30 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 54 | 21 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 3 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £659,950 | £833,808 |
| 71 | 25 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £477,500 | £603,293 |
| 43 | 7 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 51 | 1 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £625,000 | £817,486 |
| 53 | 22 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £530,000 | £706,333 |
| 58 | 12 Jun 2018 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £593,053 |
| 69 | 14 Nov 2014 | Semi-detached | £379,950 | £544,994 |
| 68 | 26 Aug 2014 | Semi-detached | £389,080 | £558,090 |
| 65 | 18 Dec 2013 | Semi-detached | £333,000 | £485,553 |
| 54 | 1 Nov 2013 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £466,598 |
| 75 | 22 Jul 2013 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £466,598 |
| 47 | 20 Jun 2013 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £481,179 |
| 49 | 8 Mar 2013 | Semi-detached | £333,000 | £485,553 |
| 46 | 19 Oct 2012 | Semi-detached | £249,950 | £373,336 |
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 North Way, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 North Way | £310,000 (2007) | £686,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 65 North Way | £333,000 (2013) | £645,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.6% |
| 15 North Way | £146,500 (1999) | £777,000 (2024) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 43 North Way | £325,000 (2020) | £660,000 (2023) | +26.6% | +19.2% |
| 22 North Way | £212,550 (2005) | £725,000 (2022) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 54 North Way | £320,000 (2013) | £550,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 3 North Way | £395,000 (2007) | £659,950 (2021) | +3.7% | +1.4% |
| 71 North Way | £71,000 (1997) | £477,500 (2021) | +8.3% | +6.0% |
| 51 North Way | £33,500 (2006) | £625,000 (2019) | +25.2% | +22.3% |
| 69 North Way | £250,000 (2009) | £379,950 (2014) | +8.7% | +5.8% |
| 68 North Way | £100,000 (1997) | £389,080 (2014) | +8.3% | +5.9% |
| 67 North Way | £238,500 (2005) | £325,000 (2012) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. North Way, Lewes 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 | 64 | 84.2% | £310,000 | £33,500 – £777,000 |
| Detached | 12 | 15.8% | £185,000 | £100,750 – £675,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in North Way, Lewes
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 76 freehold — 0.0% 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 | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 76 | 100.0% | £305,000 |
Section 07
Living in North Way, Lewes
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 £305,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.21% 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 BN7, 192 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 48 violent, 3 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 58 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 1.92 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 North Way, Lewes
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.
8 state and independent schools have a BN7 postcode: 6 primary, 1 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priory School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,153 |
| Wallands Community Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 324 |
| Southover CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 288 |
| South Malling CofE Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 230 |
| Western Road Community Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 214 |
| Iford and Kingston Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 190 |
| Plumpton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 136 |
| Plumpton College | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Lewes Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Cooksbridge Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Glynde Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Southease – Piddinghoe Road | Rail | 5.5 km |
Section 09
How North Way, Lewes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. North Way, Lewes sits above that national figure — +93.7%.
Within Lewes the street ranks 236 of 535 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £267,500 (+14.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,732 per square metre, across 23 of the 76 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 £33,500 to £777,000. 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.
North Way, Lewes 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£232,500 median
- Court Road£172,940 median
- South Street£267,000 median
- Western Road£270,000 median
- Cliffe High Street£140,000 median
- Spences Lane£137,075 median
- Station Street£120,000 median
- De Montfort Road£269,475 median
- Warren Drive£159,975 median
- Mountfield Road£178,000 median
- Malling Street£233,000 median
- Valence Road£230,000 median
- Highdown Road£259,000 median
- St Annes Crescent£419,500 median
- Winterbourne Close£200,000 median
- St Nicholas Lane£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 15 North Way4 sales
- 53 North Way3 sales
- 22 North Way3 sales
- 71 North Way3 sales
- 18 North Way3 sales
- 14 North Way3 sales
- 42 North Way3 sales
- 9 North Way3 sales
- 65 North Way2 sales
- 43 North Way2 sales
- 54 North Way2 sales
- 3 North Way2 sales
- 51 North Way2 sales
- 69 North Way2 sales
- 68 North Way2 sales
- 67 North Way2 sales
- 13 North Way2 sales
- 19 North Way2 sales
- 61 North Way2 sales
- 7 North Way2 sales
- 33 North Way2 sales
- 25 North Way2 sales
- 16 North Way2 sales
- 2 North Way2 sales
Back to Lewes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in North Way, Lewes?
The median price paid in North Way, Lewes across every sale on the register is £305,000. 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 North Way, Lewes?
76 sales are on record for North Way, Lewes, the most recent completing on 30 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have North Way, Lewes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.3% between 2002 and 2013. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were North Way, Lewes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £330,000, set in 2013. 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 North Way, Lewes?
£3,732 per square metre, from the 23 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 30 Jan 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, “North Way, Lewes 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.