Black Path, Polegate house prices

Black Path, Polegate house prices are built from 104 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 3 Jul 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,000. Across the 11 years from 2001 to 2012 the median moved +142.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +84.9%.

HM Land Registry104 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 3 Jul 2024

The chart tracks the median Black Path, Polegate house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2012. 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 Black Path, Polegate is £122,000 in 2012; the lowest is £34,000 in 1996. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £34,000 to £122,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £73,754, so the real change over the whole record is +147.1% — about +5.82% 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: +142.8% 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 Black Path, Polegate values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

84 of the sales on record are leasehold and 20 freehold — 80.8% 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 £94,750 and the median freehold sale £178,750 — a gap of +88.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 4 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Black Path, Polegate sits below that national figure — -37.1%.

Within Polegate the street ranks 171 of 174 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £183,500 (-46.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,009 per square metre, across 25 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 £22,000 to £382,250. 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.

Streets nearby

• Brookside Avenue£109,000 median
• Station Road£145,000 median
• Heron Ridge£134,975 median
• Brightling Road£188,500 median
• Lynholm Road£179,950 median
• Aberdale Road£114,250 median
• Dover Road£210,000 median
• High Street£136,000 median
• Brook Street£150,000 median
• The Street£450,000 median
• Southfield£145,000 median
• Greenleaf Gardens£178,000 median
• Kensington Way£190,000 median
• Windsor Way£120,000 median
• Hailsham Road£181,250 median
• Walnut Walk£114,142 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 3, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path5 sales
• FLAT 5, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path4 sales
• 21, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path4 sales
• FLAT 6, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path4 sales
• FLAT 14, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path4 sales
• 12, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path4 sales
• 20, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• FLAT 15, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path3 sales
• 14, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 13, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 3, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 3 Black Path3 sales
• FLAT 2, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path3 sales
• FLAT 13, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path3 sales
• 1, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 10 Black Path3 sales
• FLAT 16, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path3 sales
• FLAT 12, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path3 sales
• 2, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 19, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path3 sales
• 5 Black Path2 sales
• 16, BURNSIDE COURT Black Path2 sales
• FLAT 4, HAWTHORN COURT Black Path2 sales
• 14 Black Path2 sales

Back to Polegate house prices.

What is the average house price in Black Path, Polegate?

The median price paid in Black Path, Polegate across every sale on the register is £99,000. 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 Black Path, Polegate?

104 sales are on record for Black Path, Polegate, the most recent completing on 3 Jul 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Black Path, Polegate house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +142.8% between 2001 and 2012. 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 Black Path, Polegate house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £122,000, set in 2012. 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 Black Path, Polegate?

£2,009 per square metre, from the 25 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 3 Jul 2024. 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, “Black Path, Polegate 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.