Downs Way, Littlehampton house prices are built from 200 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £166,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +61.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +14.7%.
Median price paid
£166,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+61.0%
Change in real terms
+14.7%
HM Land Registry200 salesLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Downs Way, Littlehampton prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downs Way, Littlehampton 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £59,500 | £132,118 |
| 2000s | 9 | £155,000 | £282,364 |
| 2010s | 4 | £183,000 | £258,030 |
| 2020s | 4 | £312,500 | £319,293 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downs Way, Littlehampton is £320,000 in 2025; the lowest is £54,250 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £54,250 to £320,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £120,461, so the real change over the whole record is +171.4% — about +3.38% 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: +61.0% in cash against +14.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £430,000 |
| 74 | 23 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £399,950 | £408,645 |
| 135 | 23 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 30 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 28 | 30 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 50 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 20 | 4 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £336,240 | £353,805 |
| 82 | 30 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £244,000 | £256,746 |
| 63 | 20 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £312,500 | £328,825 |
| 79 | 5 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £320,933 |
| 78 | 12 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 6 | 11 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £312,500 | £328,825 |
| 26 | 12 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £394,590 |
| 36 | 15 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £340,000 | £367,356 |
| 40 | 22 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 22 | 7 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £372,500 | £402,471 |
| 47 | 9 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 32 | 26 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 51 | 14 Feb 2023 | Terraced | £285,000 | £307,931 |
| 99 | 18 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 9 | 2 Aug 2022 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 129 | 5 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £317,000 | £367,272 |
| 10 | 28 Feb 2022 | Detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 87 | 10 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £269,000 | £339,866 |
| 36 | 9 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £285,000 | £360,081 |
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 Downs Way, Littlehampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 Downs Way | £71,500 (1995) | £430,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 74 Downs Way | £47,000 (1996) | £399,950 (2025) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 135 Downs Way | £140,000 (2003) | £280,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 28 Downs Way | £225,000 (2014) | £320,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.1% |
| 50 Downs Way | £59,000 (1999) | £300,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 20 Downs Way | £73,500 (1999) | £336,240 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 82 Downs Way | £186,000 (2005) | £244,000 (2024) | +1.4% | -1.4% |
| 63 Downs Way | £173,000 (2005) | £312,500 (2024) | +3.2% | +0.2% |
| 79 Downs Way | £86,000 (2001) | £305,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.8% |
| 6 Downs Way | £172,500 (2013) | £312,500 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.5% |
| 26 Downs Way | £183,500 (2003) | £375,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 36 Downs Way | £58,500 (1995) | £340,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downs Way, Littlehampton 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 | 101 | 50.5% | £155,000 | £24,500 – £340,000 |
| Semi-detached | 83 | 41.5% | £183,500 | £47,000 – £430,000 |
| Detached | 15 | 7.5% | £179,000 | £92,000 – £415,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.5% | £105,000 | £105,000 – £105,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downs Way, Littlehampton
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 196 freehold — 2.0% 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.
The median leasehold sale is £65,250 and the median freehold sale £167,000 — a gap of +155.9%. 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 | 4 | 2.0% | £65,250 |
| Freehold | 196 | 98.0% | £167,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.5% | £205,000 |
| Existing home | 199 | 99.5% | £165,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +24.2%. 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 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.
Section 07
Living in Downs Way, Littlehampton
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Arun, 43.7% of 86,258 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 687 | 0.8% |
| B | 11,508 | 13.3% |
| C | 25,542 | 29.6% |
| D | 32,485 | 37.7% |
| E | 12,245 | 14.2% |
| F | 3,006 | 3.5% |
| G | 785 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Arun at £1,227 a month as of Jun 2026 — £846 for a one-bedroom home and £1,390 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £166,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.87% 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 BN16, 148 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 36 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 164,889 residents the 2021 census counted in Arun, that is 0.90 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 Downs Way, Littlehampton
The 2021 census counted 164,889 residents in Arun across 72,661 households. 72.4% of those households own their home and 27.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a BN16 postcode: 7 primary, 1 secondary. 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 Angmering School | Secondary | Community school | 1,360 |
| Rustington Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 554 |
| St Margaret's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 408 |
| Georgian Gardens Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 405 |
| Summerlea Community Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 377 |
| East Preston Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 351 |
| East Preston Infant School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 160 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Angmering Rail Station | Rail | 0.4 km |
| Littlehampton Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Goring-by-Sea Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Arundel Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
Section 09
How Downs Way, Littlehampton compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downs Way, Littlehampton sits above that national figure — +5.4%.
Within Littlehampton the street ranks 593 of 826 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £183,000 (-9.3%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £24,500 to £430,000. 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.
Downs Way, Littlehampton sits in Arun, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Arun at 10.9 times median local earnings of £32,213 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
- Worthing Road£170,000 median
- Sea Lane£152,475 median
- The Street£161,000 median
- Station Road£180,000 median
- Sea Road£171,500 median
- North Lane£249,500 median
- Harsfold Road£231,500 median
- Woodlands Avenue£180,000 median
- Broadmark Lane£314,500 median
- Dinsdale Gardens£175,000 median
- Wakehurst Place£124,250 median
- Manor Road£264,950 median
- Old Manor Road£206,000 median
- The Martlets£197,000 median
- Harsfold Close£181,270 median
- Mallon Dene£250,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 105 Downs Way7 sales
- 36 Downs Way6 sales
- 129 Downs Way5 sales
- 99 Downs Way4 sales
- 87 Downs Way4 sales
- 71 Downs Way4 sales
- 64A Downs Way4 sales
- 42 Downs Way4 sales
- 69 Downs Way4 sales
- 104 Downs Way3 sales
- 74 Downs Way3 sales
- 135 Downs Way3 sales
- 50 Downs Way3 sales
- 20 Downs Way3 sales
- 82 Downs Way3 sales
- 63 Downs Way3 sales
- 79 Downs Way3 sales
- 26 Downs Way3 sales
- 10 Downs Way3 sales
- 14 Downs Way3 sales
- 21 Downs Way3 sales
- 61 Downs Way3 sales
- 66A Downs Way3 sales
- 108 Downs Way3 sales
Back to Littlehampton house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downs Way, Littlehampton?
The median price paid in Downs Way, Littlehampton across every sale on the register is £166,000. 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 Downs Way, Littlehampton?
200 sales are on record for Downs Way, Littlehampton, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downs Way, Littlehampton house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +61.0% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +14.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downs Way, Littlehampton house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £320,000, set in 2025. 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 Downs Way, Littlehampton?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 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, “Downs Way, Littlehampton 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.