Old Malling Way, Lewes house prices are built from 104 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Mar 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,000. Across the 13 years from 2009 to 2022 the median moved +55.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.5%.
Median price paid
£184,000
Change in cash, 2009–2022
+55.3%
Change in real terms
+9.5%
Median per m²
£2,136
HM Land Registry104 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Mar 2025
Section 01
How Old Malling Way, Lewes prices moved
The chart tracks the median Old Malling Way, Lewes house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | 4 | £53,500 | £118,795 |
| 2000s | 4 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2020s | 2 | £330,000 | £337,174 |
The highest yearly median on record for Old Malling Way, Lewes is £335,000 in 2021; the lowest is £53,000 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £53,000 to £330,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,685, so the real change over the whole record is +224.9% — about +4.46% 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: +55.3% in cash against +9.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 | 27 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| 191 | 16 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £383,000 | £403,007 |
| 40 | 19 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 173 | 12 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £360,000 | £417,091 |
| 22 | 18 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 2 | 11 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 20 | 11 Mar 2022 | Semi-detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 64 | 14 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £499,059 |
| 57 | 11 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 186 | 10 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £305,000 | £385,349 |
| 47 | 8 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 65 | 1 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £335,000 | £423,253 |
| 43 | 4 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £323,000 | £418,209 |
| 177 | 12 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £317,000 | £410,441 |
| 51 | 5 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| 189 | 5 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £345,000 | £451,252 |
| 66 | 21 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £418,553 |
| 20 | 21 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £287,000 | £375,390 |
| 61 | 27 Mar 2018 | Terraced | £292,000 | £389,149 |
| 188 | 20 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £283,000 | £385,164 |
| 43 | 18 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £415,106 |
| 6 | 1 Sep 2016 | Terraced | £357,000 | £498,386 |
| 106 | 13 Nov 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £253,800 |
| 165 | 4 Nov 2015 | Terraced | £380,000 | £535,800 |
| 65 | 23 Oct 2015 | Terraced | £295,000 | £415,950 |
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 Old Malling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 Old Malling Way | £126,000 (2002) | £385,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| 191 Old Malling Way | £139,000 (2003) | £383,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 40 Old Malling Way | £53,500 (1996) | £330,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 173 Old Malling Way | £56,000 (1996) | £360,000 (2022) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| 22 Old Malling Way | £53,000 (1995) | £310,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.2% |
| 20 Old Malling Way | £196,000 (2007) | £330,000 (2022) | +3.5% | +0.8% |
| 57 Old Malling Way | £245,000 (2009) | £375,000 (2021) | +3.6% | +1.4% |
| 186 Old Malling Way | £69,000 (1998) | £305,000 (2021) | +6.7% | +4.4% |
| 65 Old Malling Way | £295,000 (2015) | £335,000 (2021) | +2.1% | +0.3% |
| 43 Old Malling Way | £189,950 (2006) | £323,000 (2020) | +3.9% | +1.5% |
| 189 Old Malling Way | £77,950 (1999) | £345,000 (2019) | +7.7% | +5.4% |
| 61 Old Malling Way | £59,950 (1997) | £292,000 (2018) | +7.8% | +5.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old Malling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 74 | 71.2% | £188,000 | £48,500 – £385,000 |
| Semi-detached | 25 | 24.0% | £196,000 | £48,500 – £395,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 4.8% | £117,500 | £43,000 – £180,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Old Malling Way, Lewes
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 99 freehold — 4.8% 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 £117,500 and the median freehold sale £189,950 — a gap of +61.7%. 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 | 5 | 4.8% | £117,500 |
| Freehold | 99 | 95.2% | £189,950 |
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 Old Malling 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 £184,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.63% 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 Old Malling 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 Old Malling Way, Lewes compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Malling Way, Lewes sits above that national figure — +16.8%.
Within Lewes the street ranks 464 of 535 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £267,500 (-31.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,136 per square metre, across 22 of the 104 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 £43,000 to £395,000. 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.
Old Malling 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
- 177 Old Malling Way6 sales
- 191 Old Malling Way5 sales
- 43 Old Malling Way5 sales
- 40 Old Malling Way4 sales
- 186 Old Malling Way4 sales
- 189 Old Malling Way4 sales
- 20 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 61 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 165 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 28 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 60 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 36 Old Malling Way3 sales
- 173 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 22 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 57 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 65 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 6 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 106 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 58 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 63 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 18 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 53 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 187 Old Malling Way2 sales
- 30 Old Malling Way2 sales
Back to Lewes house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Old Malling Way, Lewes?
The median price paid in Old Malling Way, Lewes across every sale on the register is £184,000. 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 Old Malling Way, Lewes?
104 sales are on record for Old Malling Way, Lewes, the most recent completing on 27 Mar 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Old Malling Way, Lewes house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +55.3% between 2009 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Old Malling Way, Lewes house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £335,000, set in 2021. 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 Old Malling Way, Lewes?
£2,136 per square metre, from the 22 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 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, “Old Malling 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.