River Road, Littlehampton house prices

River Road, Littlehampton house prices are built from 201 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £127,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +155.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +84.9%.

HM Land Registry201 sales65 with floor areaLatest sale 26 May 2026

The chart tracks the median River Road, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for River Road, Littlehampton is £490,000 in 2016; the lowest is £36,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £36,500 to £310,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £81,047, so the real change over the whole record is +290.8% — about +4.65% 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: +155.1% in cash against +84.9% 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 River Road, Littlehampton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

118 of the sales on record are leasehold and 83 freehold — 58.7% 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 £101,800 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of +91.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +53.9%. 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 5 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 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.

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 £127,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.59% 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 BN17, 311 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 95 violent, 5 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 70 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.9 times busier.

Against the 164,889 residents the 2021 census counted in Arun, that is 1.89 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 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.

6 state and independent schools have a BN17 postcode: 5 primary, 1 secondary. 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. River Road, Littlehampton sits below that national figure — -19.4%.

Within Littlehampton the street ranks 737 of 826 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £183,000 (-30.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,912 per square metre, across 65 of the 201 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 £32,500 to £750,000. 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.

River Road, 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.

Streets nearby

• South Terrace£85,000 median
• Arundel Road£116,950 median
• Norfolk Road£93,250 median
• Church Street£169,692 median
• Timberleys£137,500 median
• Fitzalan Road£80,000 median
• Bayford Road£95,000 median
• Gloucester Road£79,975 median
• Goda Road£85,000 median
• Irvine Road£74,000 median
• Pier Road£230,000 median
• Lyminster Road£159,500 median
• Bluebell Drive£174,748 median
• Highdown Drive£200,000 median
• East Ham Road£139,975 median
• Lansdowne Road£172,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 12, PHAROS QUAY River Road8 sales
• 31 River Road5 sales
• FLAT 2, PHAROS QUAY River Road5 sales
• FLAT 5, PHAROS QUAY River Road5 sales
• FLAT 19, PHAROS QUAY River Road4 sales
• 1, NETLEY COURT River Road4 sales
• FLAT 25, PHAROS QUAY River Road4 sales
• 29 River Road4 sales
• FLAT 34, PHAROS QUAY River Road4 sales
• FLAT 41, PHAROS QUAY River Road4 sales
• FLAT 35, PHAROS QUAY River Road4 sales
• 2, HAMPTON COURT River Road3 sales
• 8, HAMPTON COURT River Road3 sales
• 7 River Road3 sales
• 34 River Road3 sales
• FLAT 33, PHAROS QUAY River Road3 sales
• FLAT 38, PHAROS QUAY River Road3 sales
• 30 River Road3 sales
• 5, ARGYLL HALL River Road3 sales
• FLAT 29, PHAROS QUAY River Road3 sales
• FLAT 30, PHAROS QUAY River Road3 sales
• 1 River Road3 sales
• 4, ARGYLL HALL River Road3 sales
• FLAT 17, PHAROS QUAY River Road3 sales

Back to Littlehampton house prices.

What is the average house price in River Road, Littlehampton?

The median price paid in River Road, Littlehampton across every sale on the register is £127,000. 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 River Road, Littlehampton?

201 sales are on record for River Road, Littlehampton, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have River Road, Littlehampton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +155.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +84.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were River Road, Littlehampton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £490,000, set in 2016. 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 River Road, Littlehampton?

£1,912 per square metre, from the 65 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 26 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, “River Road, 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.