Spences Lane, Lewes house prices

Spences Lane, Lewes house prices are built from 196 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £137,075. Across the 10 years from 2012 to 2022 the median moved +52.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +18.4%.

HM Land Registry196 sales47 with floor areaLatest sale 6 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Spences Lane, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Spences Lane, Lewes is £352,500 in 2020; the lowest is £32,750 in 1995. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £32,750 to £251,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £72,720, so the real change over the whole record is +299.9% — about +5.27% 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: +52.6% in cash against +18.4% 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 Spences Lane, Lewes values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

103 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 52.6% 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 £87,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +187.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 6 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 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.

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 £137,075 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.58% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Spences Lane, Lewes sits below that national figure — -13.0%.

Within Lewes the street ranks 519 of 535 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £267,500 (-48.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,500 per square metre, across 47 of the 196 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 £26,000 to £925,000. 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.

Spences Lane, 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.

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
• 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
• Southover High Street£365,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 12, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane6 sales
• FLAT 18, CASTLE COURT Spences Lane5 sales
• FLAT 12, CASTLE COURT Spences Lane5 sales
• 45 Spences Lane4 sales
• FLAT 1, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane4 sales
• 74 Spences Lane4 sales
• FLAT 8, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane4 sales
• FLAT 14, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane4 sales
• FLAT 11, CASTLE COURT Spences Lane4 sales
• FLAT 5, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane3 sales
• FLAT 12, SPENCES COURT, 58 Spences Lane3 sales
• FLAT 7, GIBSON COURT, 60 Spences Lane3 sales
• 3 MALLING FIELDS Spences Lane3 sales
• FLAT 9, CASTLE COURT Spences Lane3 sales
• 76 Spences Lane3 sales
• 9 Spences Lane3 sales
• 85 Spences Lane3 sales
• 21 Spences Lane3 sales
• 59 Spences Lane3 sales
• 47 Spences Lane3 sales
• 55 Spences Lane3 sales
• 14 Spences Lane3 sales
• 64 Spences Lane3 sales
• FLAT 10, CASTLE COURT Spences Lane3 sales

Back to Lewes house prices.

What is the average house price in Spences Lane, Lewes?

The median price paid in Spences Lane, Lewes across every sale on the register is £137,075. 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 Spences Lane, Lewes?

196 sales are on record for Spences Lane, Lewes, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Spences Lane, Lewes house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +52.6% between 2012 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +18.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Spences Lane, Lewes house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £352,500, set in 2020. 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 Spences Lane, Lewes?

£2,500 per square metre, from the 47 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 6 May 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, “Spences Lane, 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.